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The words came like a clap of thunder to Will.
They arrived over the road like a clap of thunder.
What seemed like a clap of thunder struck the world all around.
All at once she heard sounds like claps of thunder.
He and his wife disappeared in a clap of thunder.
Suddenly there was a clap of thunder in her ears.
I heard the front door slam like a clap of thunder in the night.
Then, in the distance, she heard a clap of thunder, followed by another three.
And then, just before the man reached him, there was a hard impact to the air, like a clap of thunder with no sound.
The ground shook as from a tremendous clap of thunder.
A clap of thunder sounded and rain began to fall.
There was a clap of thunder and I looked outside to see the forest grow dark.
Some sixth sense told Paul that he had heard more than the clap of thunder.
He put the two halves together, and there was a small clap of thunder.
A sound like a clap of thunder and they'd be thrown a hundred feet.
A deafening clap of thunder made them stop and turn around.
For a moment he couldn't move, but another clap of thunder gave him a start.
There is a clap of thunder and the garden disappears.
I asked as a clap of thunder crackled above us.
The combined effect was like a somber clap of thunder.
She raised the book again to another deafening clap of thunder.
There was a clap of thunder overhead, rain would not be far behind.
A distant clap of thunder made him look toward the mainland.
The gun went off like a clap of thunder.
Then a clap of thunder, closer than the last.
The moment I get inside the apartment there's a crack of thunder.
There was another crack of thunder; and then the rain came.
The second crack of thunder was, if possible, louder than the first.
Outside, there was a crack of thunder, and it started to pour.
This was followed by a crack of thunder that shook the whole room.
Perhaps a lightning strike, though he had heard no crack of thunder.
Overhead, a crack of thunder split the air, making her start.
The lights went out, and the next crack of thunder shook the windows.
We are not children, to cower before every crack of thunder.
It seemed the tension could only be discharged by a crack of thunder.
She tried again, wincing at the crack of thunder directly above her.
There was a dry splitting crack of thunder right overhead.
Outside, lightning flashed, and there was the sharp crack of thunder.
There was a crack of thunder in my ears.
Then there was a crack of thunder, startling them.
Even the crack of thunder seemed to dissolve into the booming roar.
There was a loud gong, followed by a crack of thunder.
"He went off like a crack of thunder," he said at last.
While she was talking there was a loud crack of thunder.
He opened his mouth to continue, closed it as a crack of thunder rolled across the sky.
Before she could reply, there was another violent crack of thunder overhead.
Cracks of thunder follow; the skies grow dark and the rains come.
Another crack of thunder caused more shouting and scurrying about.
There it was, the enormous crack of thunder as the storm began its barrage.
The emperor's shout echoed in the hall like the crack of thunder.
The mouth opened, and a small roll of thunder came out.
Under his feet the ground shook with the next roll of thunder.
From far in the distance came the repeated roll of thunder.
From the west came a roll of thunder that shook the leaves.
It was followed by a roll of thunder, on cue.
His voice was like a distant and ominous roll of thunder.
Another roll of thunder came, still distant, but louder than the last.
Even as he spoke there came a muted roll of thunder.
A giant roll of thunder; can lightning be far behind?
A slow roll of thunder, much closer, and a light rain began to fall in the city.
As if in answer to this remark, a low roll of thunder echoed across the city.
It was a low roll of thunder, yet strangely like a whisper.
But there was no accompanying roll of thunder, Sam noticed.
The distant roll of thunder made Sasha open his eyes.
Then, to his surprise, there was a crash like a distant roll of thunder.
Distant but deep there came up on the wind a roaring sound like the roll of thunder heard far away.
A sound-deafening, like rolls of thunder, then a woman's voice.
A roll of thunder sounded, and lightning flashed across the window.
"Oh, yes," he said, his voice like the rolling of thunder over a vast plain.
Light sears the canyon through the rain, followed by a roll of thunder.
In the ensuing silence there came a distant roll of thunder.
A lightning flash was followed by the distant roll of thunder.
The ominous roll of thunder that followed made the walls shake.
As if deliberately to prove him wrong, there was a long, low distant roll of thunder.
There was a roll of thunder, as if a plow had been dragged right across the sky.
Another booming crash of thunder brought him to his feet.
The next crash of thunder made the former one seem like a short whisper.
At least when crashes of thunder did not drown them out.
The crash of thunder in the distance reached her ears.
Next second all other sounds were drowned in a crash of thunder.
It began with the loudest crash of thunder I've ever heard.
After a crash of thunder and light, the baby arrives without anyone's assistance.
Fire leaped with a crash of thunder, then again elsewhere.
The sky is literally on fire, and the crashes of thunder are continuous.
Between crashes of thunder, he heard a sharp sound from overhead, then gasped.
The crash of thunder crowded in on top of it.
Then came such a crash of thunder that they both awoke in a fright.
Lightning flashed, followed a few seconds later by a crash of thunder.
After the silence the clap sounded like a crash of thunder.
The sky was split by the crashing of thunder.
A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.
A moment later a crash of thunder banged painfully in both his ears.
The house shook with a sudden crash of thunder.
In the distance violent crashes of thunder were heard.
All of a sudden everything goes dark and there is a crash of thunder.
It was followed by a rolling crash of thunder.
Another crash of thunder - this one closest of them all.
With that splitting crash of thunder, the heavens seemed ripped open.
But his attention was distracted by a flat crash of thunder and sudden glare.
Lightning flashed in the sky, and there was a loud crash of thunder.