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A wounded Gordon Highlander dismisses it as no more terrible than a bad thunderstorm: "You get the same din and the big flashes of light in front of you, and now and then the chance of being knocked over by a bullet or piece of shell, just as you might be struck by lightning." That is the real philosophy of the soldier.
At eight o'clock at night a thunderstorm came over us from the west, and sprinkled us with a few drops of rain; from west the storm travelled north-west, thence north to east and south, performing a perfect circle around; reaching its original starting point in about an hour, it disappeared, going northerly again. The rest of the night was beautifully calm and clear.
"No, but somebody else's thunderstorm would bother us almost as much," Bob explained good-humoredly. "Never mind the thunderstorms now," put in Mr. Crowninshield. "Aren't we going to hear anything but this whistling and groaning? Whee! There it goes again. It is for all the world like a chorus of cats." "It is more like a siren horn tooting up and down," laughed Nancy.
I have known a man brave in other respects lose his nerve altogether in a thunderstorm. In neither of these cases was it the man's own fault; it was constitutional, and by no effort could he conquer it. I consider Bathurst to be an exceptionally noble character.
My heart sank into gloomy forebodings. Read Manfred, and doubted whether I should live long. The laden weight of destiny seemed to crush down my aching forehead, till the thunderstorm burst, and peace was restored to my troubled soul. This was very bad; but to do justice to Lancelot, he had grown out of it at the time when my story begins.
She would rather have faced a thunderstorm than her husband in his wrath, so she concealed Evadne's letter from him, and wrote to her again surreptitiously in order to reproach her for seeming to insinuate that she, her mother, would stoop to do anything underhand. Evadne sighed when she received this letter, and thought of letting the matter drop.
"I see Bruce just ahead. Grandma and Mother must be near." They came up to them in a minute, and Sunny Boy suddenly discovered that he was hungry. "But it isn't time for lunch yet, precious. Take this apple and try to wait a little longer, do," said his mother. "Feels like a thunderstorm," declared Grandma, sitting down on her camp-stool to get her breath after the walk.
The banging of a door, but worst of all a thunderstorm, could produce hours of weeping and crying and desperate mental condition with all expressions of excitement. Her husband wanted me to hypnotize her but I preferred another way. I tried to get her memory back to the earliest case of which she could think of this hysterical response.
It has been so precious hot all day that I should not be the least surprised if we had a thunderstorm." "A thunderstorm while we are in the cave would be magnificent," said Nora. "Does anything ever frighten you, Nora?" "I don't think anything in nature could frighten me; but there are some things I am frightened at." "What? Do tell me. I should like to know."
But the earthquake, though it alarm our body, will bring no fear to our mind unless we regard it as an act of justice, of mysterious vengeance, of supernatural punishment. And so it is, too, with the thunderstorm, with illness, with death, with the myriad phenomena and accidents of life.
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