On this march the Persians suffered some loss; for as they bivouacked during the night at the foot of Ida, a storm of thunder and lightning burst upon them, and killed no small number.
The very fact that Eden Hazard had been sent off was implausible given that, back in Ligue 1, they remember the Belgian as a scintillating talent with a lightning burst of pace who carried all before him while at Lille and, as a result, was the most fouled player in French football.
When he watched the lightning burst forth from the cloud and heard the roar of the thunder, he knew that he was witnessing true freedom and power.
The sky outside was punctuated by lightning and bursts of green light, as a result of nearby transformers exploding.
It travelled around Twitter at lightning speed, bursting out from the bubble of The Poetry Society's followers to find a much broader audience.
First thought to be generated at high altitudes, researchers have recently pinned down the origin of the fleeting lightning-linked bursts—one of the most energetic surges of natural electromagnetic radiation on Earth to altitudes below 20 kilometers, in the layer of the atmosphere where most weather happens.
Red lightning bolts burst from a scoop of ice cream towards an eyebrow.
Pelted by hail, slowed by widening puddles and thrilled by the lightning-strike bursts of static on the radio, we noticed how, when the light is just right, distant telephone poles look remarkably like an array of lightning rods.
He can, still, throw in a lightning-fast burst down either flank.
They morphed into larger and more intricate machines, coming alive with lightning and electro bursts.
Mr. Ceylan, a photographer as well as a filmmaker, at times falls prey to the pathetic fallacy, letting rain and lightning and mocking bursts of sunshine do too much of the dramatic work.
