"An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building."
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"and love was lightning and remembrance"
"Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning."
"O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!"
"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time."
"This is history written in lightning."
"Movies are like writing history with lightning."
"Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence."
"The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning."
"There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them."
"Money can't buy off the lightning."
"I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't."
"When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both"
"Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt."
"Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!"
"Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one."
"When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify."
"For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object."
"Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love."
"It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning."