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Thunderclap

noun

A single sharp crash of thunder.

A shocking surprise. Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt.

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"Thunderclap" Quotes from Famous Books

... railroads had been swallowed whole by the Pacific Southwestern had fallen as a thunderclap upon the rank and file of the three local companies; and since, in railway practice, a change of owners usually carries with it a sweeping change in department heads, the service was ...

— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde

... seemed to shake and a thunderclap burst in my ears. I opened my eyes,—I was splashed all over with sticky mud, and men were picking themselves up from the bottom of the trench. The parapet on my left had toppled into the trench, completely blocking it with a wall of tossed-up earth. The man on my left lay still. I rubbed the mud ...

— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey

... of John Brown was another thunderclap. And Abigail showed me what was being said about it. A certain Henry Thoreau, a strange, radical soul living in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, had compared John Brown to Christ. "Some eighteen hundred years ago," Thoreau said, "Christ was crucified; ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... she would add: "Now, then, Tartarin!" Whereupon Tartarin of Tarascon, with crooked arms, clenched fists, and quivering nostrils, would roar three times in a formidable voice, rolling like a thunderclap in the bowels ...

— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet

... came a rap at the door; it was a soft, low tap, yet it startled the viscount like a thunderclap. He dropped the hand of Faustina ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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