cataclysmal
Example Sentences
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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
Then, if they went into a flat that was nearly all studio, their furniture went back in a cataclysmal wave to the warehouse, where a ten-dollar room, a twelve-dollar room, would not dam the overflow.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
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 whole structure of three united, happy lives was built upon these cataclysmal facts--yet she had never asked what thought they held of them!
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.
Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.
From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
