Citations:all of a sudden

English citations of all of a sudden

• 1705, The Present State of Europe‎^[1]:

  [...] my self that the Enemies great Springs of Money, Credit, and various Expedients for procuring Supplies, [...] fail and dry up all of a Sudden, to such a Degree as is Represented.

• 1891, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round‎^[2]:

  All of a sudden there was a dull kind of a bang, such as a gun fired a long way off might make, and all the after-part of the ship was blown right up in the air, looking for all the world like a set-piece o' fireworks; [...]

• 1996, Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club‎^[3]:

  In Catch-Up Rap, someone will say how the agent has spread into his spinal column and now all of a sudden he'll have no control of his left hand.