From somewhere above lightning strobed: electricity coursing between dust planes in the storm.

Suddenly, electricity coursed through his veins and he bolted upright.

It was early Monday afternoon in Anchorage when Ward Merkouris picked up the telephone and heard his son, Robert, so shaken he could barely talk, describe how electricity from a live power line coursed through a tall, tilting tent pole and electrocuted the leaders of his Boy Scout troop.

He jerked as sudden electricity coursed through his left foot.

I imagined her already-deformed body leaping and arching as the electricity coursed through her.

In April 2004, according to internal Defense Department documents recently procured by the A.C.L.U., three marines in Mahmudiya used an electric transformer, forcing a detainee to "dance" as the electricity coursed through him.

As his neighbor shifted the pole, Mr. Anrranco became wrapped in the wire, and electricity coursed through his body.

His body jerked--as if electricity were coursing through it, completing some powerful circuit.

Jim touched her shoulder, and the old electricity still coursed between them.