This was to be a night of battle; one wherein crooks expected to surprise the law by lightning thrusts.

The attack was the man's last mistake, as Pontswain leaped into the fray and stabbed the man in the throat with a single lightning thrust.

And one after another, mighty ogres fell, slain by a single lightning thrust.

He had no chance to ward off the lightning thrust of cold steel held in an iron grip.

Actual rapier combat was hardly the lightning thrust and parry depicted.

A lightning thrust, partly parried, had also opened a long cut on the boy's cheek.

Abandoning the gun for the moment, Paul grabbed a lamp from an end table and used it to parry the guard's lightning thrusts.

Or perhaps it would end in lightning thrusts.

Cerez attacked immediately, sending out a lightning thrust.