chain-lightning

Last night, more of it: the second scariest storm of my life, with chain-lightning and banging thunder, pounding rain and high velocity wind.

Better a drought... delagar 2008

Last night, more of it: the second scariest storm of my life, with chain-lightning and banging thunder, pounding rain and high velocity wind.

Archive 2008-06-01 delagar 2008

He was significantly younger than the other two; a crewcut man of average height and average build whose lean face would have been completely forgettable if not for the chain-lightning that seemed to flash behind his dark, hate-filled eyes.

The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

The only thing to really make an impression on him once the riddling began in earnest was the fire flashing from the stone eyes of the Hounds; as he raised his hand to shield his eyes from that chain-lightning glare, he thought of the Portal of the Beam in the Clearing of the Bear, how he had pressed his ear against it and heard the distant, dreamy rumble of machinery.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

"What a chain-lightning genius Haff is!" exclaimed my frend.

A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" William H. Maher

One might as well have had a ball of fire in the house, or chain-lightning; every nice old custom had been invaded, the ancient quiet broken into a Bedlam of outlandish sounds, and as Captain

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

"Is that what you call one of them two-wheeled lickity-split things that a man sits on the middle of an 'goes like chain-lightning?"

Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road Victor [pseud.] Appleton

More commonly chain-lightning, and certainly not a

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

From the descriptive catalogue he gave of his own merits, the passengers gathered that he was "a roarer," "a regular bruiser," "half alligator, half steamboat, half snapping-turtle, with a leetle dash of chain-lightning thrown in," and were evidently afraid of him; when the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

Now it came to pass that when UNCLE SAMUEL heard of these things, he was sorely riled; yea, his wrath was like unto a six-story stack of wolverines and wild-cats, mixed with sudden death and patent chain-lightning.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various