Quickly climbing back to earth, I eagerly examined the effects of the lightning-stroke.
Localised paralysis of groups of muscles, or even of a whole limb, may follow any degree of lightning-stroke.
Two hundred years ago Agayentah, a wise and honored member of the Seneca tribe, was killed here by a lightning-stroke.
Suddenly the last tissue parted and the enormously weighted spear fell like a lightning-stroke.
We also have the sadly familiar type described as the fulminant or, literally, "lightning-stroke" variety.