thunder-peal

Then a final, all-consummating thunder-peal; and, when I came to myself, I was once more

Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

How that mule's eye twinkled as from time to time he cast a backward glance upon the Small Boy wrestling with a dull hatchet and a sturdy young scrub-oak under the pelting rain, amid lightning-flash and thunder-peal, needs a more graphic pen than mine to describe.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

At this moment a thunder-peal is heard and a flash of lightning destroys

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

Put away all belief in God, and you will see the action and reaction of human passions forming, as it were, a mass of opposite electricities, and preparing the thunder-peal and the furies of the tempest.

The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

But at this moment a loud thunder-peal arrests the contending parties, and when the mist, which has blinded all, has passed, Artemis herself is seen in a cloud with

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

A storm was sweeping through the sky, nearly a mile beneath; and I looked down upon an ocean of rainbows, rolling in indescribable grandeur, to the music of the thunder-peal, as it moaned afar and near, on the coming and dying wind.

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

Suddenly, there burst upon my ears the report of a gun, which sounded like a thunder-peal, and echoed in long reverberations.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

The dull, heavy sound which those heard who stood above, to his ears became transformed and enlarged, and extended to something like a thunder-peal, with long reverberations through his now fevered and distempered brain.

The American Baron James De Mille

A vivid flash of lightning cleaved the cloud; the thunder-peal drowned the schoolmaster's reply.

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

The roar of the battle died down in his ears to a gentle murmur; instead of it, he says, he heard a great voice and a shout louder than a thunder-peal crying, "Array, array, array!"

The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War Arthur Machen 1905