Thunder
- In Batak, rapak, maturapak, dugu-dugu-dugu
- In English, roll, rumble
- In Finnish, jyrin, jylin
- In German, groll, grummel
- In Japanese, goro goro ゴロゴロ
- In Russian, tararam тарарам, tram-tararam трам-тарарам
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Famous quotes containing the word thunder:
“It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“After night’s thunder far away had rolled
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)