"Thunderer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the boat the Rhinds signal is going up on?" laughed Hal Hastings. "It is going up on the submarine 'Thor.' According to the old Norsemen tales Thor was The Thunderer—also the fellow who struck with the big hammer. It looks like a Rhinds boast that they are to do big things on this ...
— The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - The Young Kings of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... affords another illustration of the great truth that the British railway public is the best served railway public in the world, and, on the whole, the least grateful." We hope and incline to believe that in the latter remark, the great Thunderer is wrong, and that it is only a small, narrow-minded, and ignorant section of ...
— The Iron Horse • R.M. Ballantyne
... into my centre of repose, The shady visions come to domineer, Insult, and blind, and stifle up my pomp.— Fall!—No, by Tellus and her briny robes! Over the fiery frontier of my realms I will advance a terrible right arm Shall scare that infant thunderer, rebel Jove, And bid old Saturn take his throne again."— 250 He spake, and ceas'd, the while a heavier threat Held struggle with his throat but came not forth; For as in theatres of crowded men Hubbub increases more ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
... remembrance of light through the screen Of a face that seemed shadow and stone. She led the youth trembling, appalled, To the lake-banks he saw sink and rise Like a panic-struck breast. Then she called, And the hurricane blackness had eyes. It launched like the Thunderer's bolt. Pale she drooped, and the youth by her side Would have clasped her and dared a revolt Sacrilegious as ever defied High Olympus, but vainly for strength His compassionate heart shook a frame Stricken rigid to ice ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... listen to preachments on turning the cheek to the blow, And saying a prayer for the smiter, and holding my seen treasure low For the sake of a treasure unseen? By the sledge of the Thunderer, no! ...
— Ride to the Lady • Helen Gray Cone
... still left, and Sparta left, free and strong, with men whose hearts and hands can never fail. I doubted once. But now I doubt no more. And our gods will fight for us. Your Ahura-Mazda has still to prevail over Zeus the Thunderer and ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... his right grasps a stylus, with which, when the voice has ceased, to record the communicated truth. Place in his hands the thunderbolt, and at his feet the eagle, and the same form would serve for Jupiter the Thunderer, except only that to the countenance of the Jewish prophet there has been imparted a rapt and inspired look, wholly beyond any that even Phidias could have fixed upon the face of Jove. He who wrought this head must have believed in the sublimities of the religion whose ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware
... then his spirit arose like an eagle refreshed for its flight; And his brow it was clear, and his voice it rang high,— like the thunderer ...
— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner
... the smith, e'en Ilmarinen, He the great primeval craftsman, Sent aloft his prayer to Ukko, And he thus besought the Thunderer: 420 "Scatter forth thy snow, O Ukko, Let the snowflakes soft be drifted, That the sledge may glide o'er snowfields, O'er the snow-drifts ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... a smile could speak, "Your master's speech is in that paper, boy." He waved his hand—the footboy left the room— Roebuck pour'd out a cup of Hyson bloom; And, having sipp'd the tea and sniff'd the vapour, Spread out the "Thunderer" before his eyes— When, to his great surprise, He saw imprinted there, in black and white, That he, THE ROE-buck—HE, whom all men knew, Had been expressly born to set worlds right— That HE was nothing but a parvenu. Jove! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... would receive him in his kingdom. He feared greatly to undertake so dangerous and uncertain a course. So, turning upon his foes, and calling up all his strength, he made a tremendous leap high into the air and clean over the net. But Thor was too quick for him. As he fell toward the water, the Thunderer quickly threw out his hand, and caught the slippery salmon, holding him ...
— Hero Tales • James Baldwin
... poore Idoll! On him! on him that is not, unlesse made: Had I your Iove I'de tosse him in the Ayre, Or sacrifice him to his fellow-gods And see what he could doe to save himselfe. You call him Thunderer, shaker of Olympus, The onely and deare Father of all gods; When silly love is shooke with every winde, A fingers touch can hurle him from his Throne. Is this a thing to be ador'd ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... served by a faithful band, who love the beautiful and adore the glorious! In vain, in vain they tell us your divinity is a dream. From the cradle to the grave, our thoughts and feelings take their colour from you! O! AEgiochus, the birch has often proved thou art still a thunderer; and, although thy twanging bow murmur no longer through the avenging air, many an apple twig still vindicates thy ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli
... that, had the pope been there, He would have join'd the laugh sonorous; But sad the king, I hold, who should not dare To lead, for such a cause, in such a chorus. The gods are laughers. Spite of ebon brows, Jove joints the laugh which he allows. As history saith, the thunderer's laugh went up When limping Vulcan served the nectar cup. Whether or not immortals here are wise, Good sense, I think, in my digression lies. For, since the moral's what we have in view, What could the falconer's fate have taught us new? Who does not notice, in the course ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... burning on your head, and I believe if all nations and all men could behold you as I saw you just now, they would believe once more in the fables of pagan mythology, and feel satisfied that Jove the Thunderer had deigned to descend once ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... petty Spirits of Region low Offend our hearing: hush. How dare you Ghostes Accuse the Thunderer, whose Bolt (you know) Sky-planted, batters all rebelling Coasts. Poore shadowes of Elizium, hence, and rest Vpon your neuer-withering bankes of Flowres. Be not with mortall accidents opprest, No care of yours it is, you know 'tis ours. Whom best I loue, I crosse; to make my ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... Feretrius, according to some, from the trophy being carried upon a feretrum, or bier, as it is called in the Greek tongue, which then was much mixed with the Latin; but according to others, it is an attribute of Jupiter the Thunderer, for the Romans call striking ferire. Others say that the name comes from striking the enemy; for even now in battle when they are pursuing the enemy they keep shouting, "Feri," that is, "Strike," to one another. The word for ordinary spoils is spolia, but for these ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long
... think of buying Thunderer. Legard—Colonel Legard (he was in the Guards, but he sold out)—is a good judge, and recommends the purchase. How very odd that you too should be going ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III • Edward Bulwer Lytton |
