Above them the air swirled and crackled, and more than once lightning lanced across the sky.

Black-green lightning lanced from the tip of that finger and incinerated the half-dead bit of shrubbery-eerily doing so without a sound, except for a hiss and a soft puff as the bush burst into flame.

Behind her, lightning lanced the mouth of the alley.

Occasional lightning still lanced the sky, but the rain had somewhat diminished.

He tried to dodge, but the force pursuing him drove him forward, and the lightning lanced through him.

Suddenly, lightning lanced upward from the heights on the opposite side of the valley.

Blue-violet light flared across the heights and lightning lanced the ground, set off by discharged energy as the Keys set forces held stable for centuries into flux.

The thunder was bellowing, and the lightning lancing out of a huge black cloud which lay above it and hung down its edges of thick mist over its sides.