cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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Miss Quincey was quite shaken by this cataclysmal outbreak, this overturning and shattering of the old beacons and landmarks.

From Superseded by Sinclair, May

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

The mind trained in submission to universal law will not shrink from a fate which awaits the universe by fire or cataclysmal change.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

Somehow I could not bring myself to think of my relation to him as involving cataclysmal changes.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter