Word: thunder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...
...stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from a meeting of Sunday School teachers, she arrived just as a thunderstorm burst. She lit a light and sat down to sew near a window. Above the roar of the thunder, there was the crack of a shot. Through the fractured window, a bullet sank into her heart. The assailant escaped...
Addie had already chosen, with all her young heart; she wore Jim's ring and thought about him every moment. Jim had to thunder at himself to withstand her and make her go to college...
...encountered first, an article by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled Religion and Life, Moral Autonomy or Downfall. It was a searching article, highly civilized, passionately logical, but little to the old man's ribald taste. He skipped it to peruse the first installment of Christopher MORLEY'S Thunder on the Left...
Argentina. Like the flash that precedes the thunder, the Prince of Wales' chauffeur arrived in Buenos Aires to study the capital preparatory to driving his royal master about it. The Prince is expected from Uruguay...