Frank appears with the thunder, like Ahab

"Yonder, to windward, all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward—I see it lightens up there; but not with the lightning."

At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same instant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.

"Who's there?"

"Old Thunder!" said Ahab, groping his way along the bulwarks to his pivot-hole; but suddenly finding his path made plain to him by elbowed lances of fire.
--Moby-Dick chapter 119, The Candles

My unconscious voice had brought the cynic to my side; who had wandered forth like myself: but just then, too, from the cold north, and from a dark cloud, which had glided there unseen—like a brooding secret evil—came the hoarse voice of a storm, and far-echoing solemn thunders.

"Scenes Beyond the Western Border,"
Southern Literary Messenger 17 (May 1853): 313

and Scenes and Adventures in the Army, revised as follows:

My unconscious voice had brought the cynic to my side, who had wandered forth like myself: but just then, too, from the cold north, and from a dark cloud, which had glided there unseen—like a brooding secret evil—came the hoarse breath of a storm, and its far-echoing solemn voice.