"Like thunder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of my life as an American citizen!" said Robertson to Hanbury. Hardly had he finished the sentence, when a crashing sound like thunder rent the air and resounded down the whole length of Broadway, as if the latter were a canon surrounded by precipitous ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... schooner seemed determined to keep her broadside to the tumbling seas. The oil slick helped only a little; every few moments a wave with spoondrift flying from it would smash across the deck, volleying tons of water between rails, with a sound like thunder. At these times the swirling torrent in the waist would reach ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... crash like thunder, Fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream; And a long shout of triumph 25 Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret tops Was ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... rolled like thunder through the hall; his eyes flashed fire, and all the beholders, seized with dismay, turned pale and cast down their eyes. Only old Counsellor Erman's face betrayed no fear or anxiety. He looked at the emperor with a grave ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... purity, plenitude—and the infinite number of suppliants, the sky of truth and religion. All this is within us, and has fallen upon our heads. And God Himself, who is all these kinds of heavens in one, has fallen on our heads like thunder, ...
— The Inferno • Henri Barbusse
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