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:
“Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all. And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i’ the wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
And through the music of the languid hours,
They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
—Andrew Lang (1844–1912)