Lightning struck nearby, the sound of the thunder coming almost as one with the flash of white.

The scent of rain pervaded everything, and over it, the odd, sharp smell that came when lightning struck nearby.

Not until recent months, when two suicide bombers struck nearby, did the conflict show its face here.

She turned to face the Gate even as another bolt struck nearby.

The blast came just one day after a suicide bomber struck nearby, killing two Israelis and wounding dozens.

She opened her mouth to object when a bolt of lightning struck nearby.

Not much rain fell and lightning did not strike nearby.

Then the lightning began to strike in the trees nearby, with cracks so loud that it made her head ring.

Perhaps she'd been trapped under a pile of rubble of the kind that results when a shell strikes nearby.

Insurgents tried to attack the session, firing several mortars, including two that struck nearby while the assembly was meeting.