white lightning

How to use white lightning in a sentence

• The Maid bent her head in gracious acknowledgment, swept through and was off to the river like a flash of white lightning.

  A Heroine of France | Evelyn Everett-Green

• The outer aspects of these members were decorated with white zigzag streaks, to indicate the white lightning.

  The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony | Washington Matthews

• Looking up through the cracks in the little steeple, they could see flash after flash of continuous white lightning.

  Molly Brown's Orchard Home | Nell Speed

• The shop-woman looked up hastily, caught sight of two blazing eyes, and a face like white lightning, and quailed.

  Hildegarde's Harvest | Laura E. Richards

• I will shiver their ship into little pieces with a bolt of white lightning as soon as they get out to sea.'

  The Odyssey | Homer