| 单词 | chain lightning |
| 例句 | A silent flash traveled around the mountain, followed by another flash— chain lightning, but no thunder reached the town. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It savaged patients and snaked like chain lightning out from the hospital through patients’ families. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunters will unleash an arc burst of chain lightning that tracks enemies with their glaive. I’m obsessed with a stick in Destiny 2: The Witch Queen 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Finally, jumpy hunters get an arc burst of chain lightning that tracks enemies in true hunter-style. Destiny 2: The Witch Queen’s new weapons and gear look super powerful 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z It was the stuff of children’s myth—Georgie had an eye for the back of the net and a left foot like chain lightning—but it all seemed plausible. Inner Worlds: The Word Shed | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z He hasn’t captured her this time; but he acts as though chain lightning had struck him. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z He's chain lightning, I tell you, and no mistake. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z I 've been thinking like chain lightning ever since that clap of thunder, and I can tell you the storm 's cleared up more 'n the air. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z They were muscular and like chain lightning in action. Lost Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:25.250Z But she did this that she might if possible lighten that of her Sun Maid, who had now grown to a “real good-sized girl an’ just as smart as chain lightning.” The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn He did the job up pretty well, considering; and as for your Thad, he's chain lightning on the send. The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine He sent the ball into the left-hand corner of McLoughlin's court like a bolt of chain lightning. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories He dodged like chain lightning—dodged as his life had taught him to dodge before the coyote and the hawk. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Here am I, a man who has a lovely wife and baby girl, and yet I've got to marry a red-haired girl, with a temper like chain lightning! Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains Miss Shaw then made her wit play around the legal male mind like chain lightning. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV I gathered another impression, and it was that bonefish were related to dynamite and chain lightning. Tales of Fishes Wilson at full is simply chain lightning, and the whole country will be talking of him by November. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron It looked," he writes, "like a colossal railroad-map of the State of Massachusetts done in chain lightning on a midnight sky. The Book of the National Parks He rushed down the streets after an item, dodging in and out of stores and offices like a streak of chain lightning having a fit. In Our Town Put both arms around me, just under the arms, and stick to me like a porous plaster, because if I have to move at all, I'll have to jump like chain lightning. Spacehounds of IPC Shann had almost reached it when a crackle of chain lightning beat across the ground before him, turning the edge of the buckled entrance panel red. Storm Over Warlock Not in time to stop Costigan's first Berserk attack--the First Officer's reactions were practically instantaneous, and he moved like chain lightning--but in time to retain command of the situation. Triplanetary The empty fields for miles and miles around are laid off and dug up in streets, and look like they had been struck with ten thousand streaks of chain lightning. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales "Come, be quick and be quiet; you know he's chain lightning." The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier With characteristic hospitality, Waxel at once proffered some Russian brandy, which, by courtesy among all Western sailors, is always known as "chain lightning." Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Why, these little varmints are just chain lightning when it comes to cleverness, and they can sometimes outwit the smartest old trapper who ever drew breath. Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan Don't you think having one in the family quick as chain lightning is enough? The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts They were softened only by shots of brown, which ran like chain lightning through them. From the Valley of the Missing “And I should have called for blue-lights and rockets, the aurora borealis, chain lightning, the solar system, and the eternal light of nature, but I discovered him with a penny dip,” said Eliphalet Means, chuckling. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel Down it went, like a thunderbolt chased by a streak of chain lightning. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth The "chain lightning" of the bush was outclassed with the cinematograph whiskey of the city, that made its moving throngs and streets pass before his eyes like a kaleidoscope. "Over There" with the Australians Always quick as chain lightning, he had ducked and clinched. The Big-Town Round-Up And now the successive flashes of chain lightning caused the whole cloud to appear like a sort of irregular network, and displayed a thousand fantastic images. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know I hollered at him, expectin' to see him turn tail like chain lightning. Dutch Courage and Other Stories The man was said to be a crack shot, quick as chain lightning, without the slightest regard for human life. A Man Four-Square "Now, sir, watch your chance; they're chain lightning the minute you touch the seat." The Rim of the Desert Of what use his wares on a building whose tower was robed in clouds and which used the chain lightning for a necklace? Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock His sermons were chain lightning, flashing conviction into the hearts of the stoutest sceptics, and the links of his logic were so compact that they defied resistance. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Pete was chain lightning in pants, and he grabs Mr. Rattler by the tail and snaps his neck, but I felt lonesome in my inside till dinner time. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East But he is chain lightning at getting his gun off in a hurry. The Mountains Austin, however, proved the most enthusiastic reveller of all, put through his work like chain lightning, and was out and off before the plodding Thomas had fairly begun. The Old Gray Homestead It looked like a colossal railroad map of the State of Massachusetts done in chain lightning on a midnight sky. Roughing It, Part 8. He's a clothing man, and chain lightning about offering gifts to purchasers. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Overhead the storm burst in fury, and flash after flash of fork, or rather chain lightning, leapt into the river. Jess Just then the black curtain of cloud, that had been rising slowly and obscuring the stars, was torn by a strong flash of chain lightning. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life On Saturday, November 5, the trades left us suddenly after a thunder-storm, which gave us an opportunity of seeing chain lightning, which I only remember to have seen once in England. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement I could see their every movement, and it seemed to me that the chain lightning was striking the iron-stone all round them. Allan's Wife The younger boy sent chain lightning across the sky with sharp, crackling thunder. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest |
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