Swiftly as rain follows a thunderclap her mood changed, her own face, hysterically tense, relaxed in a flood of tears.
Then of a sudden, straight over the now useless blind, unexpected, startling as a thunderclap out of a cloudless sky, directly toward the nearest bird bounded a tall brown figure, silent as a phantom.
Innison and Haendl hunched at the thunderclap as air rushed in to replace him.
The mild thunderclap that followed made the flames dance and the column of steam fray; and then the fire was steady again, and so was the rising steam.
The war had been going on ten months when it fell on our ears like a thunderclap that all was not well with us in England.
The recital made by his mistress had produced the effect of a thunderclap upon him; he knew not what measures to employ in order to counteract the numerous plots in action against him on all sides, and simultaneously.
Tomorrow the news of your miraculous resurrection will be a thunderclap to our enemies!
Instinctively they braced themselves for the concussion that followed,--a bellowing thunderclap and a rending of earth and air that shook the surrounding hills and drowned the shriek of Gallagher's whistle.
They had barely entered the castle when a thunderclap came, the roof fell apart, the ceiling opened, and in flew an eagle.
They returned to the castle, but had not sat down when a thunderclap came, the ceiling opened, and in flew a raven.
The event of the battle of Wakefield came as a thunderclap to the Yorkists, who had hitherto despised the queen and her northern followers.
The news of the fall of Edinburgh and the battle of Preston Pans came like a thunderclap to the English Government.
But the terrible thunderclap of the explosion had upset the whole neighbourhood, horses were still rearing, and people were running demented, hither and thither.
First comes this thunderclapof a surprise: Then follow all the signs and silences Premonitory of earthquake.
The thunderclap was truly terrific, and immediately followed the lightning flash.
Finot, an innkeeper, was standing on his doorstep looking out at a storm, when a flash of lightning followed by a thunderclap sent him flying back into the hall.
They had scarcely gained the doorway when there was a tremendous thunderclap which sent them flying backward--and two girls who had joined them--knocked senseless by lightning in the form of a fireball.
But just as the romancers speak of the thunderclap of love, so do theologians also speak of the thunderclap of conversion.
Out of the March woods ahead broke a thunderclap of sound, settling into a roar of musketry.
Thunderclap after thunderclapannounced ever-fresh legions pressing into the sky and obscuring the sun.
I heard the thunderclap come as though from all the air around me, stunning my ears with its terrible burst of sound.
Then came suddenly another thunderclap and with it I passed from the sight of those who had followed and were watching, vanished from view.
Upon that night before midnight, another thunderclap was heard and the said Henri Lothiere was seen by these hundreds to appear at the field's center as swiftly and as strangely as he had vanished.
There he was observed going through strange and diabolical conjurations, when there came suddenly another thunderclap and the said Henri Lothiere did vanish entirely from view in that moment.
