Careful Words

thundering (adj.)

Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,

To traverse climes beyond the western main;

Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,

And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Traveller. Line 409.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,

For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;

While words of learned length and thundering sound

Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;

And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew

That one small head could carry all he knew.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Deserted Village. Line 209.

Disparting towers

Trembling all precipitate down dash'd,

Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.

John Dyer (1700-1758): The Ruins of Rome. Line 40.