During a thunderstorm they huddle together and cannot be made to move.
You gave me a fright coming down as you did, for there was a tremendous thunderstorm going on, and I am ashamed to say how queer my own nerves were.
They marked time awhile till the thunderstorm became their theme.
A terrible thunderstorm had raged over the countryside all the evening and throughout the night.
On the following night, a thunderstorm broke over the countryside, washed down the soil from the pastures, and sent the river roaring in flood through the gorge.
Soon after the procession had passed, a violent thunderstorm came up.
Now the thunderstorm might have arisen and the lightning might have struck on that particular spot, in strict accordance with natural laws.
Suddenly, however, a thunderstorm arose, and the sacrifice was struck by lightning.
The stair carpet was ruffled and discoloured where I had crouched, soaked to the skin from the thunderstorm the night of the catastrophe.
The driving clouds of the gathering thunderstormmingled there with masses of black and red smoke.
Now I'll go and shut the window, before the thunderstorm breaks.
She was not only afraid of a thunderstorm herself, but she was not pleased if her fear was not shared by everybody else--that would be freethinking.
The front of a thunderstorm of wide extent is frequently in the form of a large low arch above a region of uniformly lighter sky.
Hence, given favorable conditions of humidity, temperature and wind, mankind can certainly produce a rainstorm (and perhaps a thunderstorm into the bargain) by the relatively simple process of building a big fire.
The characteristic wind of a thunderstorm is the squall that rushes out in front of the storm when close at hand.
A sudden storm of brief duration; closely akin to a thunderstorm but not necessarily attended by thunder and lightning.
Most thunderstormrecorders register, by radiotelegraphy, the strays set up by lightning discharges.
Once he wiped the streaming perspiration from his face and neck, pointed to a mass of black clouds in the west and muttered, "Thunderstorm weather.
They got in one more shot before the increasing thunderstorm made further work impossible.
By the way, that thunderstorm came on all right before the evening.
The smile that came over his face as the fantastic idea occurred to him had not passed away before the Minister was shaking hands with him, discussing the possibility of a thunderstorm occurring within the next twenty-four hours.
The wind has been blowing nearly all the time at a rate which in Illinois would mean a thunderstorm in five minutes, and sometimes the clouds loom in the thunderstorm way, yet there is not a drop of rain, and the clouds are soon gone.
The thunderstorm reduces the heat, waters the parched earth, and promotes vegetable growth.
After the last big thunderstorm he came up to the door where I was sitting and was evidently very much put out about something.
While we were busy cleaning out the well clouds began to gather, and even though a thunderstorm did not develop, rain began to fall.
Even when a thunderstorm comes up the youngsters do not turn to the old man for protection.
Before I took leave of the good-natured man, he seemed to have fairly shaken off the bad impression I had made upon him by watching a thunderstorm with interest and pleasure.
It is not good, however, to stay moralizing in a cemetery until a thunderstorm bursts over your head.
In the afternoon a South African thunderstorm swept over us.
At four o'clock comes an African thunderstorm with a deluge of rain, filling the water tanks and slaking the dust, grateful to all but the men of both armies uncovered on the rocks.
A collier lost his eyesight in December through the explosion of a blasting cartridge, and the other week, as he was being led home from a neighbouring village by a brother, a terrific thunderstorm commenced.
The next day, about noon, a heavy thunderstorm burst over the village.
But the whole force of the great thunderstorm three nights before had concentrated itself on the ridges round the head of Lago Maggiore.
One of us who had gone to sleep in the middle of a thunderstorm gave a deep groan of disappointment at the auspicious news.
Whoever has watched a real thunderstorm in a hot climate will recognize the truth of those quick sentences: "the winds blow, the lightnings fly, plants spring up, the hoofed cattle are scattered.
In some of the hymns addressed to Indra his original connection with the sky and the thunderstorm seems quite forgotten.
That night a thunderstorm occurred, during which half an inch of rain fell, to the overflowing of the tank.
A thunderstorm accounted for the rather early culmination of the temperature and its rapid decline.
The thunderstorm had purified the air, and another one was not to be expected soon in this dry region.
So they rushed on without stopping, like a thunderstormpregnant with destruction which the wind drives over a terrified village.
