thunder-struck

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The people were thunder-struck at the announcement and read the writing on the wall with awe.

Letter from Young J. Allen to an editor,January 28, 1868 2008
The people were thunder-struck at the announcement and read the writing on the wall with awe.

Letter from Young John Allen to an editor,January 28, 1868 2008
Any one who had seen him at that moment through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, stupid, thunder-struck.

Les Miserables 2008
“If only this is her last piece of trickery!” thought the thunder-struck lover to himself.

Albert Savarus 2007
“If only this is her last piece of trickery!” thought the thunder-struck lover to himself.

Albert Savarus 2007
At this decision I was thunder-struck, and threw myself upon the bed, unarmed and just as I stood.

Satyricon 2007
I looked across the fence, and was thunder-struck ....

First Love 2006
I was so surprised, (for you never beat me, my dear father and mother, in your lives,) that I was like one thunder-struck; and looked round, as if I wanted somebody to help me; but, alas!

Pamela 2006
The clerk smiled at her thunder-struck expression.

Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006
They were thunder-struck at the result of the experiment, and did all they could.

The Woodlanders 2006