In some way, even if knowledge is attained, the sin and selfishness of men will bring the lightnings and the fire out of the mountain, and men shall surely die.
We shall stand above the thunder, And watch the lightningshurled At the misty mountains under, Of the dim forsaken world.
So all the shuffling feet passed out again To lightnings flashing through the wet and wind, And while I lingered in the gate behind The dead man travelled through the storm and rain.
But the old man laughed in the thunder as he set his casque on his brow, And he waved his sword in the lightnings and clung to the painted prow.
According to the Arabs, whenever the ostrich sees the lightnings flash and a thunder storm coming on, it immediately hastens in that direction, however distant it may be, for it thinks nothing of going ten days on the stretch.
When lightnings flash and announce a coming storm, they cannot contain themselves for joy.
Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings showed the distant hill, Where those who lost that dreadful day, Stood few and faint, but fearless still.
Long have its lightnings slept--too long--but now "All earth shall feel the unveiling of this brow!
Consciousness leaps from summit to summit like the forked lightnings across the mountain-peaks; and the mysteries of life are illumined as a spread-out scroll.
Radisson, with the lightnings under his brows and that dare-devil rashness of his blood tempting him to spy out the lad's strength.
Or art thou still an incandescent mass, Acquiring form as hostile forces urge, Through whose vast length continuous lightnings pass, As to and fro its fiery billows surge?
The firm-fixt eye flashed lightnings from its cave; Far-darting penetration's gaze combined With wisdom's milder light.
No more where thunders shook the earth, Where lightnings tore the gloom, Saw that unconquered Spirit spurn The shackles of the tomb.
Individually we seem to preserve a defiant cheerfulness, snatch our pleasures with a sharpened appetite, can even find a fascination in the wild sky and the lightnings that stab the tortured earth.
Through all these days of tempest and eclipse His hand has led me and His wrath has flashed Its lightnings in the pathway of my sword.
From Sinai's cloud of darkness The vivid lightnings play; They serve the God of vengeance, The Lord who shall repay.
Came, veiling all thelightnings of his song In sorrow.
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, 5 Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
Instead, thunders andlightnings and rain and gales and news of wrecks.
I am, I suppose, also to let men continue to think that the planetary system revolves round them, and that thunders and lightnings wait upon their wrong-doing.
With a front as calm and serene as that of any ancient prophet could have been, Mr. Yocomb began repeating the sublime words, "The voice of Thy thunder was in the heavens; the lightnings lightened the world.
Incessant lightnings played from some portion of the cloud, zigzagging in fiery links and forkings, while, at brief intervals, there would be an exceptionally vivid flash, followed more and more closely by heavier and still heavier explosions.
Giants and serpents were held to be harmful inventions of the Evil Spirit, and the Lightning god, catching up clouds as he stood on the crags, broke them open, tore their lightnings out and hurled them against the monsters.
Washington hurling the stone across the Potomac may live as the Siegfried of some Western saga, and Franklin invoking the lightnings may be the Loki of our mythology.
Verse: "The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world, the earth trembled and shook.
Verse: "His lightningsenlightened the world: the earth saw and trembled.
Verse: "Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them.
Verse: "He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for the rain: he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
But not so Morgiana; Iftikhar foresaw the lightnings the moment he entered.
Betwixt the lightnings could he not see children running about with two heads, and all the boughs swelling out with heads of serpents--sure sign of the presence of the devil?
Godfrey turned, and Richard shook the lightnings out of Trenchefer, as he ran across the narrow way.
And the wreathed lightnings split The cloud with thunder dread: or wildly burst Upon the sea the water-spout.
It is a spiritual decay, and the lightnings of a superb mind.
There the pearly piles of cumuli used to slumber on summer afternoons, lightnings growing in their bosoms to flash forth at evening; and there, when a long storm ended with the day, rose the solid arch of cerulean blue.
In an hour's journey I came to a place where a thousand Lightnings mingled together in one blinding light that served but to make Darkness visible.
And deadliest lightnings ever flash The brightest in the sky!
The giant was soon so crippled with blows that his teeth were smashed, lightnings flashed from his eyes, and he rolled round and round like a pin-cushion.
Swift as the wind was he, flames of fire blazed forth from his nostrils, lightnings flashed from his eyes, and volumes of smoke came from his ears.
The night is strangely, wildly dark; The thunders fiercely roll, And lightnings flash their angry spark; But thou absorb'st my soul.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lightnings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
