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lightning stroke
noun
- a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
- vet science sudden death due to being struck by lightning, esp of cattle, horses or sheep
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Either he had met death willingly, or it had come to him without warning, like a lightning stroke.
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Two hundred years ago Agayentah, a wise and honored member of the Seneca tribe, was killed here by a lightning-stroke.
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She was like some little brilliant bird of paradise flung to the ground by a lightning stroke.
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A lightning stroke so near and sharp that I fancied I could hear the hiss was accompanied by a savage thunder-clap.
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His having called the death of his darling his lightning-stroke must have been the origin of the report that he died of lightning.
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