And, sure enough, the much-anticipated thunderbolt soon strikes: "Clara would have found it more satisfactory if, upon vision, upon the instant of meeting, a sudden lightning had descended".
With his wife, Emily, he founded Valdez Heli-Ski Guides, which made the Chugach Range in Alaska a magnet for skiers, who are dropped off by helicopter on mountain peaks from which they descend at lightning speeds.
In Cymbeline, for example, Jupiter descends "in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt.
And then, as we entered the Miraflores Locks, a ferocious thunderstorm descended, jagged bolts of lightning rending the sky.
Cymbeline, another late play, requires the god Jupiter to "descend in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle" and then – somehow – throw a thunderbolt.
Lightning streaked the sky and a thin mist descended, making the ground more slippery.
Through the void, she descended to the earth on a bolt of lightning.
The West Indies had mustered only 80 for four from 13.5 overs when the lightning flashed, the heavens opened and the rain and hail descended in cascades.
Helliwell's career path began late one night in 1950 when one of his graduate students, Jack Mallinckrodt, heard some strange descending whistling tones while monitoring radio waves produced by distant lightning.
While descending the summit amid the sunflowers and columbine, the athletic schoolteacher was hit by lightning.
The contradictory evidence for lightning dates back to 1978 when two Soviet spacecraft, Venera 11 and Venera 12, detected electrical discharges as they descended to the surface of Venus.
