Living near the volcanic mountain of Ætna, they were called the workmen of Vulcan; and Virgil describes them as forging the thunderbolts of Jupiter.
In loftier strains have I sung of the Giants, and the victorious thunderbolts scattered over the Phlegræan plains.
They were destroyed by thunderbolts and pestilence, or, according to some authors, by Neptune, who swept them away in a flood.
He is generally represented as majestic in appearance, seated on a throne with a sceptre in one hand andthunderbolts in the other.
A company of one-eyed monsters called Cyclopes were kept busy all the time, forging thunderbolts in the fire of burning mountains.
Great Jupiter listened to his complaint, and stood up among the storm clouds, and hurled his thunderbolts at AEsculapius until the great physician was cruelly slain.
Why don't you unbottle your thunderboltsand dash us to pieces?
We could see the huge war dogs frowning at us, ready at any moment to belch forth their fire and smoke, and hurl their thunderbolts of iron and death in our very midst.
The air is filled with sticks, timbers, branches of trees, and earth, as if a dozen thunderbolts had fallen upon the spot from a cloudless sky.
There are lightning flashes and thunderbolts from the hill above.
No one knew upon what seaport the thunderbolts of this formidable armament would be hurled.
Cotton Mather, even, launched one of his thunderbolts against it.
If palaeolithic stone implements and bones of fossil elephants gave rise to myths of thunderbolts and giants, sea-shells on mountain-tops must have given rise to speculations as to deluges.
The proof of this is found in the fact that the stone axes and arrow-heads which are found so abundantly in many countries are everywhere taken forthunderbolts or fairy arrows shot down from the skies.
The thunderbolts are charged in cases of two-thirds of an inch in diameter, in the same manner as cases for wheels and rockets.
I asked you to come here because it was the King's wish, and you know that Jupiter launches his thunderbolts at anyone who thwarts his will.
In days of yore, the old castle of Stolpen was the property of the Bishops of Meissen, and stood forth to view, magnificent though gloomy, with its pointed towers, which not even thunderbolts could destroy.
He evidently believed that Balaam carried the celestial thunderbolts concealed about his person--that when he turned them loose those on whom they alighted frizzled up like a fat angleworm on a sea-coal fire.
But these brute Thunderbolts as you call 'em, strike the Mountains and the Seas.
None but God has Thunderbolts that strike the Soul.
Thunderbolts struck the earth while it was still covered with snow, pine-woods became yellow, and the limbs of trees crossed one another in strange sickly figures; wild beasts and birds fell down and died from unknown diseases.
May thethunderbolts strike me in this bed if I stay here longer in uselessness!
You see, therefore, that some wag has amused himself by teasing you and frightening you a little for the thunderbolts which you two, and particularly the Vossian Gazette, have launched against the Russians.
At one time he raised his arm threateningly, as if he would bring down the thunderbolts of heaven upon such wickedness and ruthlessness.
Some too are of opinion that it was on this account [that the country about] Cumæ was named Phlegra, and that the fables of the giants struck down by thunderbolts owe their origin to these eruptions of fire and water.
Eustathius explains that those mountains were called Ceraunian from the frequent falling of thunderbolts upon them.
On the next morning from the columns of the People's Banner was hurled the first of those thunderbolts with which it was the purpose of Mr. Slide absolutely to destroy the political and social life of Phineas Finn.
The thunderbolts of opposition were unloosed, and the fires of political rancour blazed high.
Then the angels being wroth, cast thunderbolts upon them out of heaven, and these malicious elves take shelter in tall trees, which the thunderbolts blast in their fall.
The tyrant will doubtless find it difficult to defend himself against the thunderbolts which from all sides threaten him.
The most of them had given so much attention to drinking that they would have suffered some great damage from the enemy's onset had not a violent hail and numbers of thunderbolts fallen upon the latter's ranks.
Flashes of lightning and spray-like storms, hail and thunderbolts fell upon the Romans as often as they made assaults.
The battle ceased at night, and during his sleep Pyrrhus dreamed a dream, that he cast thunderbolts upon Lacedæmon, set it all on fire, and rejoiced at the sight.
Mrs. Caird was a very graceful, pleasing woman, and so gentle in manner and appearance that no one would deem her capable of hurling such thunderbolts at the long-suffering Saxon people.
On the other hand it has been said that I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them.
For the ships she smote with the thunderbolts of Jupiter; and as for Ajax, him she caught up with a whirlwind, and dashed him upon the rocks, piercing him through.
Teamsters who pass along the Brennerstrasse on stormy nights even now often hear the howling of unearthly dogs, and, during storms, thunderbolts are constantly seen striking the "Rock Giants.
He passed his hand over his eyes, looked at the sky again, and murmured, "Now I should be sorry if thunderbolts should fall.
Some thunderbolts that will kill people and burn down houses," returned the Sage seriously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thunderbolts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
