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

Either he had met death willingly, or it had come to him without warning, like a lightning stroke.

Two hundred years ago Agayentah, a wise and honored member of the Seneca tribe, was killed here by a lightning-stroke.

She was like some little brilliant bird of paradise flung to the ground by a lightning stroke.

A lightning stroke so near and sharp that I fancied I could hear the hiss was accompanied by a savage thunder-clap.

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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