Voorbeelden van sheet lightning

• After more sheet lightning the veil was drawn aside and there were before us representations of human beings in every attitude of agony.

• About their flanks, later, sheet lightning streaked and quivered, making the hot night unrestful, as with the winking of malevolent and monstrous eyes.

• A blaze of sheet lightning showed her, careened landward, lying broadside toward them about one hundred feet distant.

• He turned again to the judge with a smile that played like sheet lightning over his haggard face and inquired humbly.

• The beautiful illumination called heat or sheet lightning, is caused by the reflection of the electric flash, at a great distance from the observer.

• The thunder was less ominous and only sheet lightning, low on the horizon, was visible.

• Most of the drive back was accomplished by nearly incessant flashes of sheet lightning.

• Then there flashed a look like sheet lightning across the old man's face.

• At these words, a merry twinkle, as bright and harmless as sheet lightning, darted round the circle.

• Most sheet lightning is probably a mere reflection of ordinary streak lightning below the horizon or hidden by clouds.

• Fitful flares of sheet lightning swept across the dark horizon to the east.

• His eyes flashed on her like sheet lightning, as he clinched them in his hand.

• If there be sheet lightning, with a clear sky, on spring, summer, and autumn evenings.

• The rain fell drearily, and sheet lightning, pale and constant, gave a ghastly hue to the scudding clouds.

• Along it more and more visibly played almost incessant sheet lightning, broken with ripping zigzag flames.