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  • noun archaic Plural form of lightning.

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Examples

  • Their damage ignored Glok's massive armor rating, and they had the nasty habit to shoot volleys of arcane missiles and chain lightnings at us.

    Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads nathreee 2008

  • Vanyel was happy to oblige them; he called lightnings down out of them to lash the ground just ahead of the first rank, as he simultaneously illuminated himself with a blinding blue glare of mage-light.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Vanyel was happy to oblige them; he called lightnings down out of them to lash the ground just ahead of the first rank, as he simultaneously illuminated himself with a blinding blue glare of mage-light.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • "The sorceress, the blonde soprano " her voice was like a giant harp in the sky and she called the lightnings on the forward darksingers and twisted them back onto them."

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • But greater, like calling lightnings down from the heavens-aiee!

    Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • The lightnings were his cloak, and the sparks dropped like the rains of winter, and the enemies of his people knew him not, for the god of fire had long been absent from his place.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • The lightnings were the thunderbolts of Jove, the thunder was the rolling of celestial chariot-wheels, and the rains of spring were a goddess weeping for her daughter, Nature, held a captive in the icy prison of Winter.

    The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • The frost, the snows, the tempests, the lightnings are the rough teachers that bring the tiny acorn to the sturdy oak.

    Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • The lightnings were the flashes of his vengeful ire, and the thunder was his angry voice.

    Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

  • Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet.

    Les Miserables 2008

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