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:
“There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)