The "thunderstone" is usually "a beautifully polished, wedge-shaped piece of greenstone," says a writer in the _Cornhill Magazine_, 50-517. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
Then send out a report that a "thunderstone" had fallen at Stockholm, say -- ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
He describes the "thunderstone" as an "agglomeration of brick, soot, unburned coal, and cinder." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
I should like to send out a report that a "thunderstone" had fallen, say, somewhere in New Hampshire -- ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
Meunier tells of another "thunderstone" said to have fallen in North ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
June 20, 1880, it was reported that a "thunderstone" had struck the house at 180 Oakley Street, Chelsea, falling down the chimney, into the kitchen grate. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
"thunderstone," which he had brought from Jamaica. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
November 13th, 2007 at 11: 03 am brooklyn says: oh, and stripper name: santana thunderstone. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She looked at him with her big old black eyes and saw the two faces, the deep lightning-flash red ridge, and the thunderstone scar running from chin to hairline. ❋ Gardner, John (2002)
He placed a thunderstone—a pierre tonnerre—in an enamel dish and covered it with a magical potion. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
She lifted her armed hands towards the thunderstone, and began to dance. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)
We drove echoing under the great gate of Troizen, which giants built, and where my great-grandfather set up the device of our house, a thunderstone on a pillar, with an eagle either side. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
Bottom-like presumption, -- one of those tempests of passion where every word reeks hot and sulphurous, like a thunderstone new-fallen, -- in any of these cases we should have agreed with Mr. White that to abstain was ❋ Various (N/A)
He searched among the roots of this tree and found a "thunderstone." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
= The thunderstone, or thunderbolt, was supposed to have no power of harming any one who was asleep, or who wore laurel leaves. ❋ George Chapman (N/A)
Next he seized his mighty weapon, the thunderstone, and leapt into his storm chariot, to which were yoked four rushing and destructive steeds of rapid flight, with foam-flecked mouths and teeth full of venom, trained for battle, to overthrow enemies and trample them underfoot. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)
I knew not how time passed till the thunderstone had struck the temple, and a pain stung me through the heart. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)
As far as we are enabled to judge, Mr. Becket never examined an old play in his life: -- he does not seem to have the slightest knowledge of any writer, or any subject, or any language that ever occupied the attention of his contemporaries; and he possesses a mind as innocent of all requisite information as if he had dropped, with the last thunderstone, from the moon. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
He had faced the devilish storms which swept the high veld with lightning and the thunderstone, striking men dead as they fled for shelter to the boulders of some barren, mocking kopje; and he had had the occasional wild nights of carousal, when the miseries and robberies of life and time and the ceaseless weariness and hope deferred, were forgotten. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
