Adjective : the fulgurous cracking of a whip. From Dictionary.com.
"The naturalists say they are generated in the sky by fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumfused humor.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
When it was all over, and the train, bearing the general foreman, had gone, Burke quieted down, but not without many fulgurous flashes that kept the poor Italian on tenterhooks. From Wordnik.com. [The Mighty Burke] Reference
This was the theory of the learned Tollius, who in 1649 told the world that these chipped or smoothed stones were "generated in the sky by a fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumposed humour.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Whose fulgurous vans about the world had blown. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
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