The world seems to be on tiptoe, listening for a thunderstroke of Fate. |
Be that as it may, hearing of her marriage, several years afterward, was as a thunderstroke. |
Only when every evasion has been exhausted comes the thunderstroke which reverses the whole situation. |
As for doctrine, Arminianism and Vorstianism were to be blasted with one thunderstroke from the British throne. |