Once more lightning seared into the wolves and three died.

But as it touched the lines of magic Culain had laid, lightning seared its grey body and flames engulfed it.

And lightning seared, thunder exploding around it.

Suddenly they heard him cry out strange words in tones of thunder, and there was a flash more dazzling... [than] any that they had ever conceived of: it was as if lightning had passed just before their eyes and seared them.

He growled fiercely as lightning raced up the thick length of his flesh and seared his belly.

It was as if lightning seared his eyes.

The lightning Sadoc had called down could have seared him instead of Gandiluz.

A thunderclap smashed the sky overhead, so sudden that Curtis jumped, and its lightning seared over the river, the smell of ozone sharp in the air, and the sound of the thunder seemed to roll westwards towards the city, bounce back, and then there was just the rain crashing on the water.

Overhead, thunder suddenly crackled and flared, lightnings seared and struck here, there.

The lightning seared the darkening sky, throwing everything into stark shadow.