Last night, more of it: the second scariest storm of my life, with chain-lightning and banging thunder, pounding rain and high velocity wind. ❋ Delagar (2008)
He was significantly younger than the other two; a crewcut man of average height and average build whose lean face would have been completely forgettable if not for the chain-lightning that seemed to flash behind his dark, hate-filled eyes. ❋ Castro, Adam Troy (2001)
The only thing to really make an impression on him once the riddling began in earnest was the fire flashing from the stone eyes of the Hounds; as he raised his hand to shield his eyes from that chain-lightning glare, he thought of the Portal of the Beam in the Clearing of the Bear, how he had pressed his ear against it and heard the distant, dreamy rumble of machinery. ❋ King, Stephen (1997)
"What a chain-lightning genius Haff is!" exclaimed my frend. ❋ William H. Maher (N/A)
One might as well have had a ball of fire in the house, or chain-lightning; every nice old custom had been invaded, the ancient quiet broken into a Bedlam of outlandish sounds, and as Captain ❋ Various (N/A)
More commonly chain-lightning, and certainly not a ❋ Various (N/A)
I'm chain-lightning -- if I ain't, may I be blessed. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Is that what you call one of them two-wheeled lickity-split things that a man sits on the middle of an 'goes like chain-lightning?" ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
From the descriptive catalogue he gave of his own merits, the passengers gathered that he was "a roarer," "a regular bruiser," "half alligator, half steamboat, half snapping-turtle, with a leetle dash of chain-lightning thrown in," and were evidently afraid of him; when the ❋ Various (N/A)
Now it came to pass that when UNCLE SAMUEL heard of these things, he was sorely riled; yea, his wrath was like unto a six-story stack of wolverines and wild-cats, mixed with sudden death and patent chain-lightning. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was slow of speech, chain-lightning in action, respected generally, feared a lot. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
I wish I had control of chain-lightning for a few minutes, says O., the droll fellow of our company. ❋ Unknown (1914)
We have mid-day dinner, which Olie bolts in silence and with the rapidity of chain-lightning. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
When the first social cloud appeared on the horizon indicating the approach of a series of showers for the bride which would culminate in a cloudburst at some stone church, Miss Larrabee would begin to rumble like distant thunder and, as the storm grew thicker, she would flash out crooked chain-lightning imprecations on the heads of the young people, their fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts. ❋ William Allen White (1906)
For now at the first touch of her hand, a sensation closely resembling chain-lightning sprang up his arm, and tingled violently down through all his person. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)
The girl did not possess for him any of that magnetism, so commonly felt by most of her admirers; but he did feel how subtly full she was of something, which for want of a better term he described in Wetzel's characteristic expression, as "chain-lightning." ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
He could hear the thud and hiss of bullets; he heard them singing like angry bees as they passed with the swiftness of chain-lightning over the cabin roof, and their patter against the log walls was like the hollow drumming of knuckles against the side of a ripe watermelon. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
A storm-burst of laughter, mingled with shouts of "By jiminy, but he's chain-lightning!" and "Ain't you sorry you spoke, Sandy?" shut off the rest of the sentence, and the crushed witness drooped his blushing face in pathetic shame. ❋ Unknown (1902)
