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  1. (not-comparable) Used for emphasis, sometimes with a threatening implication.
    • "Mr. Pillow, Sir, none of your impertinence, or I will chastise you as well as this fellow." "That's a two handed game, by thunder," said Long Tom, "[…] I dare you to deadly combat. […]" 1849, Masonic Signet and Literary Mirror, volume 1, page 379:
    • 'Shocking business ... shocking ... miracle none of them died ... never heard the like ... by thunder, it was lucky you were there, Snape ...' 1999, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 283:
    • "Have it out with him to-night. Fair and square. Out he goes, Edmund, neck and crop. Out, by thunder." 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76: