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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

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