What is "bolt of lightning"

Usage examples of "bolt of lightning".

You may think you hold the leash to this collar, but I promise you, if the truce ends, you will find that what you hold is a bolt of lightning.

The first wave had barely left their hiding places before another bolt of lightning crackled down the slope.

A jagged bolt of lightning crashed down, striking the mast of one of the ships in the boatyard.

Thunder rolled in over them, wave upon wave of it, and a bolt of lightning ripped through the sky and hung against blackness for what seemed forever, burning itself into his vision so that when it flicked out he still saw it against the starry heavens like a twisting road delineating the path on which angels descended to Earth to collect the souls of the newly dead.

He told how in childhood he had diverted a bolt of lightning which might, otherwise, have struck the tree under which he and his mother had sheltered.

The deformed brush all along the shoreline immediately burst into flames, and a bolt of lightning struck Ren's mare in the chest, killing her on the spot.

Thunder boomed all about the tossing ship, more than one bolt of lightning slamming into the tall masts.

He feared to look up, lest her wizard, Merritt, send down a bolt of lightning to punish him for what he was doing.

As she spoke a great blue-white bolt of lightning ripped from cloud to earth, striking Dead Man’.

Halisstra tried to regain her feet, but the wizard hammered her with a blinding bolt of lightning.

As Andoralson continued to chant, a bolt of lightning leaped from the sky and blasted the cone of flame.

He tossed the pins into the air and uttered a mystic syllable, then groaned as a bolt of lightning exploded from his chest and arced to the closest bugbear.

Her entire body erupted into fiery nettling as a bolt of lightning caught her in the flank and sent her tumbling through the air head over heels.

He leapt at the hovering creature, just as a bolt of lightning arced from the spawn's mouth.