Word: thunderous
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...hour passed. Sundry "braces" at Carl's had made me feel more like meeting my Uncle Luther. I entered the room quietly to see what the old cove was about. By thunder, he was still looking at the pictures! When he saw me, the picture dropped, and I fancied I saw a blush his cheek. "Nathaniel," - the storm was coming; but as I began to feel as if I did n't care whether school kept or not, I lit a cigarette (he abominates smoking) and sat on the table prepared to take it, - take it, - "Nathaniel," he repeated, "these...
Singing out bravely and clearly, unheeding the roll of the thunder...
...thunder roars above...
...clearly the mote in his brother's eye, even while he has the beam in his own eye; therefore we feel at liberty to cry out loudly against the utter weariness, staleness, flatness, and unprofitableness of the poetry in college papers. Such poems as the "Thunder Tempest" and "Music" in the Bates Student are fair samples of our average mediocrity, and the result is to make a piece such as the "River Concord," in the Amherst Student, shine like a sun by mere contrast; the poem alluded to, however, is really remarkably good, contrast apart...
Nightly booming, a sound like thunder...