"Thundercloud" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... resurrection of our Lord, may be legitimately expanded so as to cover the whole ground of devout men's sorrows and calamities. Sorrow is the first stage, of which the second and completed stage is transformation into joy. Every thundercloud has a rainbow lying in its depths when the sun smites upon it. Our purest and noblest joys are transformed sorrows. The sorrow of contrite hearts becomes the gladness of pardoned children; the sorrow of bereaved, empty hearts ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren
... room of the Lancet, his glasses slightly askew on his florid face. He had climbed through the entrance lock ten minutes before, shaking snow off his cloak and wheezing like a boiler about to explode; now he faced the patrol ship's crew like a small but ominous black thundercloud. Across the room, Jack Alvarez was staring through the viewscreen at the blizzard howling across the landing field below, a small satisfied smile on his face, while Tiger sulked with his hands jammed into his trousers. Dal sat by himself feeling very much alone, with ...
— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse
... Haskers was sore when he forked over that money," was Ben's comment. "No wonder he's been looking like a thundercloud lately." ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
... a movement close to me where I lay on the ground, and, like the lightning out of the thundercloud, there came the click of steel on flint and I breathed soundlessly. It ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... end was indeed at hand. On the 23d of May, 1783, only a few months before the Briton left our shores never to return but by the courtesy of the Republic, a thundercloud, such as the season brings in New England, ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath |
