Word: thunderous
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...after sheet with "notes," and at last, with a sigh of relief, throws down his book without having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such an unfortunate result cannot always be prevented by the best instructor, but in most instances it can be, and in most instances with us it is not. This is a broad assertion, but they know its truth...
Their crests grow white at the thunder's roll...
Their cataract thunder, and sea-birds...
...other half that hot-bed of iniquity, Saratoga, was an insurmountable obstacle to their participation. We are in doubt as to the character of the proposed contests. Are we to be reminded of our childish days by hearing recited "Marco Bozzaris," or "Spartacus to the Gladiators," with the accustomed thunder of boyish eloquence? or are some youthful aspirants to throw at each other their views on the theory of government or the evolution of self-consciousness? An association for this purpose has lately been formed by colleges in the West, and meets very soon at a town in Ohio...
...thunder and lighten, now let the tempest arise...