The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.

Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.

It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.

"Ruu": The adults in the village all said that children like me could calm the lightning and turn the storms into timely rain.

The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.

The rain at length ceased; and the lightnings, as they played along the black parapet of clouds, that lay piled in the east, shone with less dazzling fierceness, […]

Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.

The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.

"Hey!" yelled Reggie, pulling her back. "Get in here! It's lightninging. I don't want a charcoal-broiled friend!"

I don't know, Father, but believe me, it has been a horrible night — one that I'll never forget. It thundered and lightninged, and I was very hungry.

lightning never strikes twice in the same place

Lightning

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