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...very act of turning my horse staggered, fell and lay still as if struck by lightning. I had my feet out of the stirrups and rolled clear of him; but I... ... gunner’s voice was cracked with emo- tion. He stepped aside, and quick as lightning brought the spark to the touch-hole. “‘Excellent!’ he cried, tear... ...er against the fluke threw her down; she was up on her feet again quick as lightning, but she was up on the wrong side. I heard a horrid, scraping sou... ...ut the revolver inside the breast of my blue blouse and waited. A flash of lightning and a clap of thunder destroyed both the sound and the light of t... ...ough the bushes. They came out on the strand. Soldiers perhaps. A flash of lightning threw everything near me into vio- lent relief. Two convicts! “An... ... out at once between the trunks, expos- ing himself freely; then, quick as lightning, leaped back. It had been a risky move but it succeeded in its ob... ...re not done with me yet.” The fiendishness of his expression vanished like lightning, and he lounged out of the café with a moody, impassive face. The...

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... great orb of darkness, the still-trembling gloomy quiver—the brain of the lightnings of battles. Now this boy nursed no secret presumptuous belief th... ...w, tongue followed, and the flash of meaning quivered over them like night-lightning. Or oftener, to speak truth, tongue flew, thought followed: her a... ...ir feet. She saw the long shaft of moon- light broken to zigzags of mellow lightning, and wavering back to steadiness; dark San Giorgio, and the sheen... ...ailed him he acknowledged it. Renee did not look up. She had none of those lightnings of primitive energy, nor the noble rashness and reliance on her ... ...uick-witted girls can be grown; but the nimble sense of fitness, ineffable lightning-footed tact, comes of race and breeding, and she was sure Nevil w... ... obey you absolutely if you came,’ she raised the hat above her brows, and lightning would not have surprised him more; for there had not been a singl... ... his enchantress, who was here: and how? Conjectures shot through him like lightnings in the dark. Irrationally, at a moment when reason stood in awe,... ...ensation of gratitude or suspicion; but feeling herself hur- ried along at lightning speed to some dreadful shock, her witless imagination apprehended... ... her sleep, he was a memory that con- ducted her through scenes which were lightnings, the cool swift morning of her flight released her. France, too,...

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...ght, and a dreadful love, like a runaway mail-coach in a storm of wind and lightning at black midnight by the banks of a flooded river, which was form... ...pse in the mountain forest. His having called the death of his darling his lightning-stroke must have been the origin of the report that he died of li... ... children of folly, were 72 The Amazing Marriage astute: they played with lightning, and they knew the condi- tions of the game; victories were to be... ...is toes, all himself, like one who has found the key. He feinted. Quick as lightning, he landed a bolt on Ben’s jib, just at the toll-bar of the bridg... ... be, desire to have been, the casket of it, broke the world to tempest and lightnings at a view of Henrietta the married woman —married to the brother... ...of course, after Jesuit arts had allured him to that place of torrents and lightnings and can- ticles and demon echoes, all as though expressly contri... ... you. A tyrant ordering you to go should be defied. My Lord Fleetwood puts lightning into my slow veins.’ ‘We have talked: we shall be reproved by the... ...ur debts.’ But this was vague, and his hearer needed a present thunder and lightning to shake and pierce him. ‘I pledged myself to that yacht,’ said F... ...ture of his quick race, with whom the reflec- tion upon a statement is its lightning in advance. Gratified by the instant apprehension of his meaning,...

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...e. Chat. Then take my Kings defiance from my mouth, The farthest limit of my Embassie. K. John. Beare mine to him, and so depart in peace, Be thou as lightning in the eies of France; For ere thou canst report, I will be there: The thunder of my Cannon shall be heard. So hence: be thou the trumpet of our wrath, And sullen presage of your owne decay: An honourable conduct le...

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... K.Iohn. Beare mine to him, and so depart in peace, 29 Be thou as lightning in the eies of France; 30 For ere thou canst report, I wil...

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...lood Night in Hell Ravings I – Foolish Virgin, The Infernal Spouse..Error! Bookmark not defined. Ravings II – Alchemy of the Word The Impossible Lightning Morning Farewell Extract from the ‘Voyant’ Letter...

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... up to the speed required; a scout horse has to have steel in his muscle and lightning in his blood. My father was a bronco. Nothing as to lineage — t... ...re dramatic. George was dramatic, so is A Horse’s Tale Mark Twain 9 this Lightning Bug, so is Buffalo Bill. When Cathy first ar rived — it was in...

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...f light and a rumbling sound of pas- sage, they kept up a perpetual summer lightning and thun- derstorm in the street below. Presently the English Cha... ...GED SCIENTIST PERFECTS ELECTRIC GUN TO ELECTROCUTE AIRSHIP CREWS BY UPWARD LIGHTNING WASHINGTON ORDERS FIVE HUNDRED WAR SECRETARY LODGE DELIGHTED SAYS... ...ince was on the point of issuing orders to drop earthward and trail copper lightning chains when the news of the aeroplane attack came to him. He face... ...him, engulfing him, immense and overwhelming, a quiver- ing white blaze of lightning and a thunder-clap that was like the bursting of a world. Just fo... ... a German airship five hundred yards below were threaded as it were on the lightning flash, which turned out of its path as if to take them, and, that... ...cting points of its huge wings everywhere, little branching thorn-trees of lightning were streaming. Like a picture Bert saw these things, a picture a... ...wer for a space. “Last I remember was seeing a sort of flying-machine in a lightning flash,” said Bert. “Gaw! that was ‘orrible. Guns going off ! Thin... ... sheets of silk for caulk- ing. We couldn’t see a thing outside except the lightning flashes. I never saw one of those American aeroplanes. Just saw t... ... it. Very likely we have finished ‘em up. One fouled us, one was struck by lightning, some of the men saw a third upset, ap- parently just for fun. Th...

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...I cannot iudge: but to conclude with truth, 787 Their Weapons like to Lightning, came and went: 788 Our Souldiers like the Night- Owles lazi...

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... breast pocket. His letter-case was gone. He had been robbed. It was as if lightning ran through him at that moment, as if a fluid electricity rushed ... ...g, fierce as iron. 260 Aaron’s Rod Like the strength of an eagle with the lightning in its talons. Something to glory in, something overweening, the ... ... lilies and fierce thorns. He moved about in the splendour of his own male lightning, invested in the thunder of the male passion-power. He had got it...

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...e in there somewhere so it could’ve happened without me knowing it. Another lightning bolt raced through me. Looking down, I saw the sheets had bec...

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... Girl and a Tree 8 The Missing 9 The Portents of War 10 Mr Jingles 10 Mr Jingles 12 Invasion 13 The Lost 14 Battle Song 15 The Wizard and the Lightning...

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...down this part of the mountain. We were passing over “Burnt Lands,” burnt by lightning, per chance, though they showed no recent marks of fire, hardly... ...ith a groove between, so that I thought at first that they had been struck by lightning, but, as the Indian said, it was evidently caused by the grain ... ..., bang, in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, “It must be good... ...ealed lakes. I thought it must be a place which the thunder loved, where the lightning practised to keep its hand in, and it would do no harm to shatt... ... miles long. We passed near a pine on its shore which had been splintered by lightning, perhaps the day before. This was the first proper East Branch P...

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...n all the splendor of a sovereign; she passed her daughter like a flash of lightning and was not recognized. Horrible anguish! T o this Marana, surfei...

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...t! See! he’s running to the shore, And has now attain’d the pool, And with lightning speed once more Comes here, with his bucket full! Back he the... ... estranged, With ghostly tread,— All hope is fled, Yes, fled for ever. The lightnings quiver, Each palace falls; The godlike halls, Each joyous hour O... ...ather Sows with a tranquil hand From clouds, as they roll, Bliss-spreading lightnings Over the earth, Then do I kiss the last Hem of his garment, Whil... ...s neighbour thus he spoke: “The thunder has our awe inspired, Our barns by lightning have been fired,— Our sins to punish, I suppose; But in return, t... ...pangs weigh’ d down, Thou dwell’st in dark and endless night. As though by lightning struck thou liest, No gleam of rapture far or wide; In vain! no h... ...uilt requited.”— Thus spake He, and a fearful storm From Him proceeds, the lightnings glow, The thunders seize each wicked form, And hurl them in the ... ...hy quivering bolt! In the darkness of midnight 361 Goethe Strike with thy lightning this mast, make it a pitiful wreck! Scatter the planks all around...

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...st. It had a greenish colour, and caused a si- lent brightness like summer lightning. This was the second cylinder. 31 H G Wells CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER... ...on its apparition, and blindingly violet by contrast, danced out the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overh... ...uns towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered. Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as I ha... ...ant it was gone. So much I saw then, all vaguely for the flickering of the lightning, in blinding highlights and dense black shadows. As it passed it ... ...isty and then flashed into clearness again. Now and then came a gap in the lightning, and the night swal- lowed them up. I was soaked with hail above ... ... trying to find the footpath. It was very dark indeed in the wood, for the lightning was now becoming infrequent, and the hail, which was pouring down... ...s palings. Near the top I stumbled upon something soft, and, by a flash of lightning, saw between my feet a heap of black broad- cloth and a pair of b... ...for his heart. He was quite dead. Apparently his neck had been broken. The lightning flashed for a third time, and his face leaped upon me. I sprang t... ...up a long rampart, and more guns behind. “It’s bows and arrows against the lightning, anyhow,” said the artilleryman. “They ‘aven’t seen that fire-bea...

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...nd death, I cannot judge: but to conclude with truth, Their weapons like to lightning came and went; Our soldiers’, like the night owl’s lazy flight,...

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...lady talking to the young banker was a Neapolitan duchess, whose eyes shot lightning flashes, and whose skin had the sheen of satin. The intimate term...

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...onder; Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire: Thy eye Jove’s lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder, Which not to anger be...

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...t all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS.] DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: Now he ll outstare the lightning. T o be furious, Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood...