cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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Though all the world be filled with snow   And fire and cataclysmal storm, I'll cross it just to lay my head   Upon her bosom warm.

From The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard

Nothing short of the cataclysmal end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.

From October Vagabonds by Le Gallienne, Richard

Fortunately, the approaching explosion, which would have been of a cataclysmal nature,—Stiffy was not a boy to do things by halves,—was averted by a change of demeanour on the part of the temptress.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

This tells of the World, its beginning, its convulsions and its ending, and thus embraces the three minor cycles of the cosmogonical, the cataclysmal and the eschatological myths.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath