¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thunderbolts
1. thunderbolt [n] - See also: thunderbolt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thunderbolts
Literary usage of Thunderbolts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"Sometimes they pictured him with thunderbolts in hit hand, in the form cf crooked
iron bars, (harp at the end, joined together in the middle. ..."
2. Common Diseases by Woods Hutchinson (1913)
"CHAPTER XV OUR FOOT ELECTRODES: Thunderbolts THAT STRIKE US THROUGH OUR FEET WE
... All the dangers that menace us from above, put together, — thunderbolts, ..."
3. Common Diseases by Woods Hutchinson (1913)
"CHAPTER XV OUR FOOT ELECTRODES: Thunderbolts THAT STRIKE US THROUGH OUR FEET WE
... All the dangers that menace us from above, put together, — thunderbolts, ..."
4. Falling in Love: With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen (1890)
"No, the real fact is this : if there were thunderbolts, the question of their
nature and action would be a wholly dull, scientific, and priggish one ; it is ..."
5. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... Catharine's harp—Bankston springs—Mineral waters of this state—Petrifactions—Quartz
crystals—" Thunderbolts"—Rivers—The Yazoo and Pearl. ..."
6. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
""Or, Cossus, thine? or in oblivion leave "The sons of Gracchus? or the Scipios, "Twin
thunderbolts of war, and Libya's bane? "Or, more than kingly in his ..."
Other Resources:
Sanskrit