lightning-like

Miller also added the foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide that generally accompanies volcanic explosions and again sparked the mix with lightning-like electricity.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Miller also added the foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide that generally accompanies volcanic explosions and again sparked the mix with lightning-like electricity.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

So you fell for the inflamed flower of my youth, and it was up to you to father the world, to wash in the great line of heaped-up generations, if you could only reach up under my plum, lock and curl, to those frail lightning-like bones of mine.

and we can only hope Jerry Ratch 2011

So you fell for the inflamed flower of my youth, and it was up to you to father the world, to wash in the great line of heaped-up generations, if you could only reach up under my plum, lock and curl, to those frail lightning-like bones of mine.

and we can only hope Jerry Ratch 2011

Name, age, occupation, place of birth, condition of destitution, and the previous night's "doss," were taken with lightning-like rapidity by the superintendent; and as I turned I was startled by a man's thrusting into my hand something that felt like

THE SPIKE 2010

We all like the stories of sudden enlightenment, but even the most lightning-like insights have to be primed by a long, steady discipline of day-to-day practice.

Strength Training for the Mind by Thanissaro Bhikkhu William Harryman 2009

The meat was excellent, quite excellent, and one cutlet after another disappeared with lightning-like rapidity.

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009

Thanks to his presence of mind and a lightning-like movement -- some would call it luck -- he managed to save himself.

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009

German settlers in Iowa originally coined the word blizzard, coming from the word blitzartig, meaning "lightning-like."

Snow removal in the United States 2008

Anita promptly invited us to visit her in the UK, which soon led to a whirlwind but typically comprehensive tour that included a brief stay at one of her London flats, a detailed examination of Body Shop production headquarters in Littlehampton, lightning-like visits to several shops in the Midlands, and ultimately a long, wet weekend tramping through high gorse in the Scottish Highlands.

Rory O'Connor: There Was Nothing Like This Dame 2008