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Definition of Thunderclaps
1. thunderclap [n] - See also: thunderclap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thunderclaps
Literary usage of Thunderclaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia by Thomas Dekker, John Nott (1812)
"... I care not a nutshell which of either : you can neither shake our comick
theatre with your stinking breath of hisses, nor raise it with the thunderclaps ..."
2. The Charm of Scandinavia by Francis Edward Clark, Sydney Clark (1914)
"They could not be thunderclaps, for there were few clouds in the sky and not the
... More like a rapid-fire Gatling gun perhaps than like thunderclaps the ..."
3. Memoir of the State of Bahia by Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia, Francisco Vicente Vianna, José Carlos Ferreira (1893)
"«Thc great number of flashing thunderbolts and thunderclaps*, says Rocha Pitta, «was
betler seen from the shores facing the cily and from a few fishers' ..."
4. Memoir of the State of Bahia by Francisco Vicente Vianna, José Carlos Ferreira (1893)
"«Thc great number of flashing thunderbolts and thunderclaps», says Rocha Pitta, «was
better seen from the shores facing the city and from a few fishers' ..."
5. The Four Corners by Amy Ella Blanchard (1906)
"This was more comforting ; nevertheless Mary Lee's fears increased in proportion
to the loudness of the thunderclaps. "I'm sure we are not safe here," she ..."
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