Definition of "thunderbolts" [thunderbolts]

• Plural form of thunderbolt. (noun)

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• "And again, desiring that the divine Majesty should make his enemies tremble, he says: Send forth lightning and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them: [560] where he terms thunderbolts the arrows and darts of God."
• "The thunderbolts are his winged arrows from his bow of fire, and his grape and canister from the pent-up magazines of the skies."
• "I have never heard the very rude chipped and unpolished axes of the older drift men or cave men described as thunderbolts: they are too rough and shapeless ever to attract attention from any except professed archæologists."