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Updated: May 19, 2025
He appeared of a bottle-blue colour, and started, dazzled with the unexpected glare of the light: hearing the dreadful rattle of the wheels, and the loud chirping of the crickets, he was thunder-struck, and instantly giving a shriek, sunk down ten thousand fathoms into the earth, while the mountain, vomiting out some smoke, silently closed up, and left not a trace behind!
Sir Roger Trajenna, a little surprised, yet bowed with gentlemanly ease, while the three young men sat perfectly thunder-struck. The dead blank was broken by Dr. Oleander. "Permit me to congratulate Sir Roger Trajenna," he said, bowing to that gentleman; "and permit me to thank Miss Dane for this exceedingly unexpected mark of preference.
Hardwicke, who was a friend of the family. She had been so thunder-struck when she found that he was out that she had taken Henry into her confidence at a moment's warning. She dared not risk any delay. It would be impossible to go home leaving Percival's future insecure. Suppose she died that night and she was struck with the fantastic coincidence of Mr.
I was rather thunder-struck when the chief remarked that, though he approved of them highly, he would waive all such arrangements in my case, and that he would supply his daughter with ample goods and chattels for our use.
I cannot say less than eighty marks; I shall lose at that, but I will not ask more." Fani stood thunder-struck. Of course, as the boat was lost, he must make it good. But eighty marks! He had never even seen so much money as that. He was speechless. The fisherman looked thoughtfully at him. Presently he said modestly:
All those brown-faced fanatics remained staring upward, silent in a kind of thunder-struck amazement. The major, peering down through the trap, swore luridly. Leclair muttered something to himself, with wrinkled brow. "Captain Alden's" eyes blinked strangely, through the holes of the mask. The others stared in frank astonishment.
Gerrard was thunder-struck. "You said yourself that he was so well fitted for this work. It suits him too, and no mistake." Colonel Antony frowned at the slang. "Is it possible that you perceive any good in him?" he asked coldly. "Why, sir," Gerrard was too much perturbed in mind to attempt to answer the question, "he could never go back contentedly to ordinary subaltern's work after this.
'The devil, in such a mouth, was so appalling and so amazing, that the worthy woman gazed, thunder-struck, upon him for a moment. 'Beg your pardon, Sir; but his body's bin found, Sir. 'You mean Mr. Mark? 'Yes, please, Sir; in a hole near the mill road it's up in the "Silver Lion" now, Sir. 'It must be the vicar's it must, said Jos.
Edward Silk grumbled something under his breath; Miss Kybird, turning to the intruder with a smile of welcome, remarked that she had just thought of going to sleep. "Going to sleep?" repeated Mr. Silk, thunder-struck. "Yes," said Miss Kybird, yawning. Mr. Silk gazed at her, open-mouthed. "What, with me 'ere?" he inquired, in trembling tones.
He ran immediately to the apartment of his mother queen Haiatalnefous, with the letter in his hand: he would have shewn it to her, but she did not give him time, crying out, "I know what you mean; you are as impertinent as your brother Amgiad: be gone, and never come into my presence again." Assad stood as one thunder-struck at these words, so little expected.
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