cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath

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)

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

Something cataclysmal happens to the House of Commons, or the Hippodrome, or Tottenham Hotspur.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian