One evening, we sat playing Monopoly while thunder and lightning and high winds raged outside.
But taming lightning is a prospect that has tempted experimenters since at least the Olympian thunderbolts of Zeus.
Intelligent monsters know how to use them and a puny gnome is a lot less puny if it zaps you with a wand of lightning.
Livid lightning flares in stormclouds ** **ve the seething ocean, and the flaming darts are captured and extinguished by the waters, while the serpentine reflections writhe, expiring, in the deep.
He could not. it was part of his job 'to act as a lightning rod for resentments which people were too awed to feel toward the Don himself though he had earned them.
These cameras enable us to see lightning like never before, as we can clearly see lightning propagate downward from the clouds or upward from tall objects.
We could hear the old Chinese scholartree riving and splitting under thundering and lightning.
The Fermi Space Telescope found hints in 2009 of the telltale pattern associated with positrons in terrestrial gamma rays stemming from lightning storms.
And, perhaps, unlearned as she was, she could have brought a dawning knowledge home to Mr Dombey at that early day, which would not then have struck him in the end like lightning.
The lightning bolt is a zigzag.
Despite the peace of the early night, lightning was flickering about the horizon.
When the paramedic arrived, they asked, well, how do you know he was struck by lightning? I said, well, look at the tree.
But long before our ancestors began to throw torches or cigarette butts, fires were started by lightning strikes, or by sparks given off when rocks rub together in an avalanche.
You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?
Varnish is an HTTP accelerator which can act as a load balancer and also cache content which can then be served lightning-fast.
Franklin's experiments showed that the lightning is an electrical discharge.
It appeared, at first sight, to be a lightning conductor, mounted on an insulator going through the roof.
The thunder and lightning can return to the imitation heaven whence they were called forth.
The tempest was let loose nd beating the atmosphere with its mighty wings; from time to time a flash of lightning stretched across the heavens like a fiery serpent, lighting up the clouds that rolled on in vast chaotic waves.
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud — man.
Livid lightning streaked the sky.
At this stage, there is no lightning-bolt solution, but two things would prevent matters from getting worse.
Diana was also many things-icon, diva, charity worker, moderniser, lightning rod-but she wasn't a joke.
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