How To Use Thunderbolt In A Sentence
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This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt.
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The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
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My unmarried survey respondents seem to understand that friendship is the basis of a good marriage even as they hold out for chemistry and thunderbolts and soulmates.
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Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring.
Chapter VIII
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Soon, the thunderbolt arrived in the form of another news flash that legal battles could not be fought by anyone on matter relating to the emergency.
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Twice in the first five minutes of the second half he launched thunderbolts towards James.
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When Julius entered, Michelangelo - like Zeus with his thunderbolts - hurled planks from the scaffolding down at the Holy Father, routing him from the chapel.
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The three brothers became the blacksmiths of the Olympian gods, creating Zeus' thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident.
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In revenge, Apollo killed the Cyclopes that forged Zeus' thunderbolts.
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Similarly, neither the Titans nor Dionysos are destroyed or annihilated by Zeus' thunderbolt; they, as Chaos, persist.
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Like Marshall, Lee is a different character out on the pitch where he hurls down his thunderbolts with a fearsome accuracy and hostility to take a wicket every 32 balls, one of the best strike rates ever.
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At that moment I saw the two Thunderbolts flying ahead of them and I reported bandits approaching.
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For a desert people winds, rain, thunder, lightening, hurricanes, thunderbolts, whirlwinds, and other meteorological phenomena held tremendous fascination.
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You need to go cold turkey before getting back on the hunt for your thunderbolt man.
Times, Sunday Times
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While holding siege to the city of Thebes, Jupiter threw a thunderbolt at Capaneus who did not fall, but died standing up.
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However, he quickly made amends with a crisp strike at the end of another well-worked move and then flying winger Sam Crompton fired high into the net with a thunderbolt of a shot.
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The news was a thunderbolt to those who knew the couple.
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Blair was at 35,000 feet, en route to Tokyo, when news of the scientist's suicide reached him like a thunderbolt on Friday morning.
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Zeus used a thunderbolt to stop the rampage and the horses plunged into the sea.
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I expect she was trying to escape the Suffolk weather, which, when it's not bombarding us with thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening), is chucking meteorites at us.
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As with Powell, you can see it in her opinions in the early 1980s: the tentativeness, the discomfort with hurling judicial thunderbolts.
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He got off the bus, no turning back, no thunderbolt to blight him to a cinder simply by hoping for it.
THE OPEN DOOR
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To the onlookers below, it seemed as if a second sun lurched drunkenly through the sky, from which blazing goddesses descended and ascended while thunderbolts flashed and pealed.
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She burst into the late '60s-early 1970s like a thunderbolt with a mix of her own creative writing and versions of the legendary Bob Dylan: Revolution!
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The thunderbolt (which became my primary magical tool for the next 8 years or so) was created with the help of Brother R.B.B., and formed from two glass chandelier lustres.
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Similarly, neither the Titans nor Dionysos are destroyed or annihilated by Zeus' thunderbolt; they, as Chaos, persist.
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This ‘hill of the thunderbolt’ rises gracefully above the narrows of Loch Leven at Balla-chulish and is a fine looking mountain from whatever direction you view it.
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It was not unnatural that Welhaven should look upon the corybantic music of Wergeland as the source and origin of an evil of which it was really the symptom; he gathered his powers together to crush it, and he published a thunderbolt of sonnets.
Henrik Ibsen
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Thus Luther calls the foreknowledge of God a thunderbolt to dash the doctrine of free-will into atoms.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory
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When the bizarre and woefully ugly characters of Royston Vasey experience thunderbolts and lightning in their beloved village, they begin to imagine it is the end of the world.
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Scott McNiven had earlier hit the post and John Sheridan saw a 25-yard thunderbolt cannon back off the bar as Ritchie's side dominated the first half.
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What with these devil-ships a-flyin 'about the skies, and dropping thunderbolts on us from the clouds, and furreners a-comin' up the Thames as I've heard, London ain't 'ealthy enough for me, nor the missus and the kids, and thanks for your kindness, sir, we're movin' to-night, keb an 'all.
The World Peril of 1910
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It's a thunderbolt," said former Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin.
Strauss-Kahn's Party Opens Door to Return
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Otherwise I'm going to have to conclude that this is a sort of disguised overnegation, a rhetorical thunderbolt that blows back semantically the wrong way.
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England were magnificent, but were undone by a movement of real grace and vision that began with Tostao and Pele and finished with a Jairzinho thunderbolt that flashed past Gordon Banks.
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I loved Cable/DP and Thunderbolts and I know 90s X-men crumminess wasn't his fault.
Cable and Deadpool #49 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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I don't plan to repeat that performance, and hope the storm is of the snow falling kind, rather than the thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening dogs.
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As a member of The Jury, Sentry has used his battlesuit to combat Spider-Man as well as Venom's new group, The Thunderbolts.
Archive 2009-02-01
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He got off the bus, no turning back, no thunderbolt to blight him to a cinder simply by hoping for it.
THE OPEN DOOR
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And withal it is to be remarked, that, conform to the doctrine of the ancient Etrurians, the manubes, for so did they call the darting hurls or slinging casts of the Vulcanian thunderbolts, did only appertain to her and to Jupiter her father capital.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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No critics have ever hurled the kind of negative thunderbolts at him that a more obviously "showy" pianist like Lang Lang has endured from the beginning of his international career.
Albert Imperato: The Art of Collaboration and the Meaning of "Pictures Reframed"
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With Robbie Baldwin popping his cork, Normie has been forced to call in assistance, and Doc Samson is about to change the nature of the Thunderbolts dramatically by his very presence …
Thunderbolts #117 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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It was McCrickard's decoy run that opened the way for half back dan Morgan to make a tremendous run through the middle be unleashing a thunderbolt shot.
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Six months ago, a thunderbolt hit Mozart.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Armenian traditions, the fire and lightning god had powers to stay the dragon's control of the heavens, as could thunderbolts in Macedonian myth.
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Yet it will be a thousand years more, in all probability, before the last thunderbolt ceases to be shown as a curiosity here and there to marvelling visitors, and takes its proper place in some village museum as a belemnite, a meteoric stone, or a polished axe-head of our neolithic ancestors.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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Maybe she just, as you said, had the attention span of a thunderbolt.
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Never did we more greatly marvel at the mercy of God, which holds back his thunderbolts from destroying those wretched shavelings who deceive the people.
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Andy Ross had a go from 30 yards and unleashed a thunderbolt into the left-hand corner.
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The nomination of John Bolton hit the U.N. like a thunderbolt.
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The Thunderbolt who heralded the Silver Age with his 1956 revival had his particles accelerated to the speed of light by blue omicron rays ... but that's another story.
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From 20 yards out, his thunderbolt crashed off the underside of the crossbar to leave Terriers' goalkeeper Ian Gray clutching at air.
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Crickets hum their night song, trees sway to strong winds and an occasional thunderbolt lights up the dark sky.
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The thunderbolt (which became my primary magical tool for the next 8 years or so) was created with the help of Brother R.B.B., and formed from two glass chandelier lustres.
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The defender fired in a 20-yard thunderbolt on 17 minutes.
The Sun
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The second half continued in the same vein with Evans saving spectacularly from a Connor thunderbolt.
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But they got back into the match thanks to a thunderbolt free kick from defender Lee Protheroe six minutes before the break.
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Odysseus was the only one to survive Zeus' thunderbolt.
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Like all good strikers, he was in the right spot in the 15th minute after Paul Evans had crashed a thunderbolt against the inside of the post.
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You need to go cold turkey before getting back on the hunt for your thunderbolt man.
Times, Sunday Times
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You need to go cold turkey before getting back on the hunt for your thunderbolt man.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea that we should not be worrying about terrorism I think has to strike as something of a thunderbolt to many people.
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{350} into the quillet that _his_ thunderbolt had stopped the chariot of the Sun and knocked the Greenwich Phaeton off the box, is the same which betrayed him into yet grander error -- which deserves the full word,
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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September 17, 1999 was the day the Supreme Court's Marshall Decision struck the region's coastal communities like a thunderbolt.
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What I saw on that sweltering morning struck me like a thunderbolt.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the 87th minute Trevor Whieldon broke up a Halton attack and found David Knapp on the right wing, Knapp fed Earnshaw, who completed his hat-trick with a thunderbolt shot from just inside the area.
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You need to go cold turkey before getting back on the hunt for your thunderbolt man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another and very different form of thunderbolt is the belemnite, a common English fossil often preserved in houses in the west country with the same superstitious reverence as the neolithic hatchets.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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He got off the bus, no turning back, no thunderbolt to blight him to a cinder simply by hoping for it.
THE OPEN DOOR
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In Brahms, he burst on the stage with his wife, NYCB principal Jenifer Ringer, and thunderbolts started crashing.
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Five minutes before the break, they came closer still, when a Davids thunderbolt cannoned off Reina.
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Andy was back real skorry, waving the great shiny white sleeve of the Ninth, which had on it, brothers, the frowning beetled like thunderbolted litso of Ludwig van him - self.
Where's the show?
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thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
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I'm sure God, long famous in moments of pique for hurling His thunderbolts about the place, cannot enjoy having this kind of intellectual sissy claiming to speak for Him.
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Another resounding crash followed a thunderbolt striking the other arm of the statue.
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'They say Alroy gives a grand banquet in the serail to-night, and toasts his harlot' mid the thunderbolts.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
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Each Thunderbolt has been chosen for their lethal skills and their "toyetic" appeal - how well their powers and appearance can be translated into toys.
Archive 2007-03-01
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The Thunderbolt series combination of the optical and traditional, for the puppet out of a different direction.
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Suppose a thunderbolt was sent down to strike him dead.
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With the slightest gesture of my head, I attempt several different elemental attacks at once, immolating one, freezing another, zapping a third with several thunderbolts and hitting a fourth with all three at once.
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In this ambience the Pope, versed in classical epic, devised the programme for Michelangelo's Last Judgement, in which a warrior Christ thunderbolts the stunted damned.
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In the latter, a monstrous giant steals Zeus's thunderbolts, which are retrieved in a manner similar to Thor's thunderweapons.
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In 1955, it was like a thunderbolt had hit my world.
The Sun
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This will come as a thunderbolt to all the campaigners who have fought for the retention of services in Down.
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All his accumulated nervous agitation was discharged on Maud like a thunderbolt.
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If God isn't prepared to send three million volts through her in the form of a thunderbolt then I think Mel shouldn't be too worried about His views on the matter.
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As we shall see, in the discussion of the thunder-weapon (p. 121), the luminous pearl, which was believed to have fallen from the sky, was homologized with the thunderbolt, with the functions of which its own magical properties were assimilated.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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But we'd rather have honest mortals looking after us than deities who never take responsibility for their thunderbolts.
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Thousands flocked to the Minster and Clifford's Tower, assuming the colourful thunderbolts would be visible above the city landmarks.
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Thunderbolts can stampede animals
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The words hit Michael like a thunderbolt and he slams the phone down, trying to think about what he should do next.
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A fearful storm burst over the town of Pau on this day; a thunderbolt fell, and defaced the royal arms over the castle-gateway; and a fine bull, which was called _the King_, from its stately appearance, the chief of a herd called _the royal herd_, terrified by the noise and clamour, precipitated itself over the walls into the ditch of the castle, and was killed.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
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Yet, with unblenching brow, he waits the falling of the thunderbolt, a calm, grand figure, fit to live in history's pages when every memory of meaner men has passed into oblivion, M.T. Steyn,
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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SHIELD: Per fess nebuly abased azure and argent, in chief a thunderbolt or inflamed proper.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9902
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Yi served thunderbolts through the tournament, before losing to Arun in the final.
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But this blow was but a buffet with the hand, compared with the thunderbolt that fate was preparing to launch against my bosom.
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Well, I guess life sometime just deals us these freaky thunderbolts out of a blue sky.
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He rode in a bright chariot with a thunderbolt in his hand as his weapon (akin to Zeus of the Greeks and Thor of the Germans).
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The midfield ace latched on to a short pass and hit a 25-yard thunderbolt in the 31st minute.
The Sun
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He is equipped with a powerful left jab and a thunderbolt in his right arm.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the ancient Greeks and Romans, after a thunderbolt struck on the ground, mushrooms (single or gregarious, sometimes as fairy rings) such as boleti, puffballs, and tubers arose from it.
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Just two minutes later, the marauding Jamaicans added the third when the goalkeeper failed to hold onto Damani Ralph's thunderbolt and Hyde responded fastest to ram home from inside the box.
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Well, there's no arguing with Rooney when he scores a thunderbolt, is there?
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Streaming contrails, the Thunderbolts lazily S-turned over the bomber formation - providing an umbrella for the lumbering Boeings.
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What I saw on that sweltering morning struck me like a thunderbolt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.
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Liverpool led through Ryan Babel's thunderbolt only for Lisandro Lopez to pop up with a last-gasp equaliser, meaning Rafael Benitez's side must now win their two remaining games in Group E and hope already-qualified Lyon can do them a favour against Fiorentina if they are to reach the last 16.
IcLiverpool
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Hardman Nutley was awesome despite wobbling like a rookie boxer hit by a Mike Tyson thunderbolt after a heavy collision early in the match.
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There's a reason the ancient Greeks thought Zeus hurled thunderbolts - you need an explanation for that kind of unpredictable terror.
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Jovian thunderbolts
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However, during thunderbolts and lightning I prefer to exercise caution.
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The second half got off to an explosive start with a thunderbolt shot from 20 yards by John Lake which gave the Old Malton ‘keeper no chance.
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Similarly, neither the Titans nor Dionysos are destroyed or annihilated by Zeus' thunderbolt; they, as Chaos, persist.
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Stern pronouncements are hurled down like thunderbolts from Zeus, and, like Zeus, their authors are totally unaccountable to mere human beings.
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Hogan exposed some poor Roscommon defending before unleashing a thunderbolt of a shot, which flew past Martin and almost burst the net.
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The Cyclopes gave Zeus the thunderbolt and Hades a helmet, gave Poseidon his trident.
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You need to go cold turkey before getting back on the hunt for your thunderbolt man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Andrew Flintoff was bearing down upon the crease, releasing thunderbolt after thunderbolt, seemingly unchanged over the four-year period even though much water has flowed under the pedalo since then.
Katich and Ponting Hit Hundreds as Australia Regains Control
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It almost seemed a reversal of nature that there should be a reply to the thunderbolts of Clark.
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Phillip Adams is right for once: No just god could have let this happen, nor restrained his thunderbolts, either, as Luke Darcy was robbed of his Brownlow.
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This let off gave Crettyard some breathing space and a confident Mark Kelly clattered the Monasterevin bar with a thunderbolt shot on 32 minutes.
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Much like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has transitioned from the wrestling ring to the silver screen, Marvel's former female grappler, Screaming Mimi, has done pretty well for herself since ditching the squared circle and becoming Songbird, the former heart and soul of the Thunderbolts.
She’s come a long way, baby, since her wrestling days | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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The unexpected defeat came as a thunderbolt.
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Her murder is a political thunderbolt that, if correctly harnessed, could single-handedly save the pro-euro cause.
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Three individual classic winners were struck down by the thunderbolt unleashed from the electric chestnut.
Times, Sunday Times
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The feelings of concern for your own children is overwhelming, and hits you like a thunderbolt.
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He is equipped with a powerful left jab and a thunderbolt in his right arm.
Times, Sunday Times
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An orgulous Turk who strikes in the dark vaults of flesh like a penile thunderbolt.
On writing by stephen king
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Matt Oakley's first goal of the season, a thunderbolt 28 th-minute volley, set up Gordon Strachan's men for their first victory in six games.
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Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday colloguing with Vulcan to forge heavier and sharper thunderbolts; Thursday, Friday and Saturday conferring anxiously with all Olympus as to how they shall be blunted and lightened, lest they hurt poor mortal fools too much.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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The enraged Zeus sent a thunderbolt hurtling down to shatter the cliff, and with blasts of wind, opened an abyss-dungeon deep within the trembling earth.
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There is no tedious sniping at current beliefs (apart from a rather funny bit towards the end about why Jupiter does not hurl thunderbolts; and he has a go also at the beliefs of Heraclitus and Empedocles about elements), just an explanation in detail of the philosophy of Epicurus and how that helps us understand the way the world around us works.
February Books 6) Cat's Cradle: Warhead, by Andrew Cartmel
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He also appeared in numerous Clint Eastwood flicks, including High Plains Drifter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and Every Which Way But Loose.
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When he bragged about this, Jupiter made him lame with a thunderbolt.
