The lightning- I heard it from the butcher boy who brings the meat, he learned it from his master's wife herself, and now every child in the city knows it-the lightning struck the knight's casque during the thundershower yesterday; it ran along his armour, flashing brightly; the horse sank dead under him without moving a limb, but he himself escaped unhurt, and the mark of a cross can be seen in the place where the lightning struck his helmet.
"In The Fire Of The Forge, Volume 5."
Georg Ebers
The violence of the noonday thundershower had already begun to abate, and he had ridden quietly forward, absorbed in his grief, when suddenly a loud, rattling crash had deafened his ears and made him feel as if the earth, the gate, and the fortress were reeling.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
He caught their hosts where the river Dive cut the army in twain, and fell suddenly with all his knights and clubmen and a thundershower of arrows on the division that held the lower bank.
"The Story of Rouen"
Sir Theodore Andrea Cook