This night the great Thor, the god ofthunder and war, to whom this oak is sacred, is grieved for the death of Baldur, and angry with this people because they have forsaken his worship.
A chant, in which the voices of the men and women blended, like the shrill wind in the pine-trees above the rumbling thunder of a waterfall, rose and fell in rude cadences.
We thunder through snow-sheds and over delicate trestle-bridges until we are buried in the Albert Canyon.
The whole of Cape Thunder is formed of mineral deposits.
We hear their dull and distant thunder before we see the clear mountain torrent, sliding down over ledges of rock, forming a long white-flecked rapid, before taking a final leap over a precipice.
It began with a thunder-storm last night, accompanied by violent showers of tropical rain, the drops being as large as small marbles, whilst the thunder claps crackled and boomed overhead, and the dazzling lightning was blinding.
At eight o'clock there is the great purple promontory of Cape Thunder in sight.
It was past twelve o'clock when I composed myself to sleep, and I could not have slept long, when a tremendous clap of thunder woke me just in time to see a vivid flash of lightning.
In the dull thunder of the wind We hear the cruel guns afar, But in the glowering heavens we find No guiding, solitary star.
Did you still hear around you, as you lay, The wings of airmen sweeping by unseen, The thunder of the guns at close of day?
La Haye Sainte is evacuated, Hougoumont is abandoned; Papelotte, Plancenoit, the woods, the plains are only filled with running men and the thunder of galloping chargers.
It was as if after a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning the house was found to be in flames.
And up above on the plateau the British troops hear the thunder of thousands of horses' hoofs, galloping--galloping to this last charge which must be irresistible.
The silence of the night was broken by the thunder of flying horses' hoofs, by the cries of "Sauve qui peut!
The denunciations of the mate continued for some time longer, and then went off like the rumbling of distant thunder in the heavens after the passage of the gust.
He had heard the sound several times, but as the sky was clear and there were no thunder clouds anywhere to be seen, he had been somewhat puzzled by the rumbling in the distance.
Suddenly, about five o'clock, as abruptly as thunder is heard under a clear sky, a volley of shot and shell begins to strike or pass over and about the place where the men are gathered.
The monkey iz only valuable tew look at, and wonder what in thunder he iz a going tew do next.
The burning bolt from heaven seemed a strange response to that faith; the crashingthunder a wild, harsh echo to the girl's sweet, reverent tones.
I'm not brave as he was, and every nearer peal of thunder shakes my very soul.
Then a louder and nearer peal of thunder awakened Zillah, who raised her head from her mother's lap and looked wonderingly around, as if some one had called her.
At this moment there came a peal of thunder from the passing storm, and she sank shudderingly into a chair.
Ever since I was a child the sound of thunder paralyzed me.
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 thunderwas in the heavens; the lightnings lightened the world.
And there are many stories of earthquakes being felt, or awful underground thunder heard, while volcanos were breaking out hundreds of miles away.
In constant danger from falling trunks and branches and paralyzed by the vivid flashing of lightning and the bellowing of thunder they crouched in pitiful misery until the storm passed.
He hated it because he connected it with the chill and discomfort of the torrential rains, and he feared it for the thunder and lightning and wind which accompanied them.
At first he shot much of the game from the cabin windows, but toward the end the animals learned to fear the strange lair from whence issued the terrifying thunder of his rifle.
The deep cannonade of roaring thunderbelched forth its fearsome challenge.
Lightning flashed fitfully from the darkening west; but as yet no thunder broke the heavy silence.
At length the storm abated; the thunder sank into a growl, and the setting sun, breaking from under the fringed borders of the clouds, made the broad bosom of the bay to gleam like a sea of molten gold.
It seemed as if the thunder rattled and rolled over the very roofs of the houses; the lightning was seen to play about the Church of St. Nicholas, and to strive three times in vain to strike its weather-cock.
In the commotion of the thunder and lightning, it seemed to Donald that a livelier race had begun; but, the next instant he realized that Dorry's pony had halted, and his own was some paces ahead.
On they sped, the lightning now dancing ahead of them, and the thunder rolling on apace.
I keep straight on with what I intended to say, only in a louder voice; he assumes a voice louder still, but not to be denied, I pile Pelion on Ossa and finally overwhelm him in a thunder of sound.
And then think of me, poor little me, deserted and forgotten, a tiny fragment sunk so deep and helplessly between the sheer granite walls of my environment that scarce an echo reaches me of the thunder among the mountains above.
At intervals thunder growls and lightning brightens up the deserted dirtiness of the Station Waiting Room.
Not even the heaviest thundershowers seem to debilitate their kinetic ardour.
Two loud peals of thunder and much lightning on the night of the 14th.
Now and then he heard in the east the far sound of cannon like muttering thunder on the horizon, but after a while it ceased entirely.
He heard that distant thunder in the south, too, but it passed farther and farther away, and he felt sure that it came from his valiant guns hanging on the rear guard of the retreating Jackson.
The thunderwas so loud and the lightning so vivid that it seemed for a while as if another mighty combat were raging.
The batteries blazed as they sent forth crashing volleys, and in a minute the thunder of guns came from the east and south, where Lee also attacked as soon as he heard the sounds of his lieutenant's charge.
Harry and the other three lads, being on Jackson's staff, hid discreetly behind the log as he passed, but they heard the thunder of the cheering following him down the road.
They were within the dark shade of the trees and Harry turned at a gallop among them, guiding his horse between the trunks, pausing a moment further on to hear the pursuit thunder by, and then resuming his race for the gorge.
He knew that they were the corps of Hill, drawn by the thunder of the battle, and he felt that if he could hold his ground yet a while longer help for him too would come, drawn in the same manner.
We heard all the thunder of a great battle as we came up.
He heard all about him a terrible tumult of shots and shouts and the thunder of horses' hoofs.
The Bombyxes--that is to say, those worms which do spin the silk threads--are by peals of thunder so troubled that sometimes they die.
Wherefore it comes to pass that the keepers of them do ofttimes beat drums, to the end that, being used to the softer noise, they may take no hurt from that sound of the thunder which is heavier.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, Ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
It is not exactly fear, because the hearer knows that he is safe; but it is somewhat akin to the feeling of mixed awe and admiration with which one listens to the crashing thunder after the lightning has sped its course.