Attack Quote by John Sergeant Wise

It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to…

— Bruce Catton

“It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil…

— J.D. Stroube

“The thunder traveled over the ship, from west to east, with prolonged reverberations, before it moved away with its clouds, leaving the sea, by…

— Alejo Carpentier

“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Frequent bolts of lightning shot down from the sky, illuminating the purple violence of the roiling clouds.”

— T.L. Haddix

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of…

— Mark Twain

“Now the western tempest was scrawled all over with lines of intolerable light, while the inky head of the cloud-giant to the east was…

— H. Rider Haggard

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when…

— Charles Dickens

“Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at…

— Cormac McCarthy