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cataclysmal



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This is a change for us from the silence, this cataclysmal music, and it contributes to our walk a different kind of sadness, another form of horror.

From War by Pierre Loti

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 Richard Le Gallienne

Some cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.

From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.

From Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

From Superseded by May Sinclair




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