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Cataclysm   /kˈætəklˌɪsəm/   Listen
noun
Cataclysm  n.  
1.
An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
2.
(Geol.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.





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"Cataclysm" Quotes from Famous Books



... sympathetically involved. After all, importance in fiction is exactly like importance in life; important to whom? the philosopher asks. The relativity of things human is a wholesome theory for the artist to bear in mind. Even as the most terrific cataclysm on this third planet from the sun in a minor system, makes not a ripple upon Mars, so the most infinitesimal occurrence in eighteenth century Hampshire may seem of account,—if only a master draws ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton
... foundations." His tone by no means indicated an inner cataclysm. "It may mean that I must excuse myself and leave. ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... Strange that people should make such a fuss about a detail like Home Rule, when the foundations of society are all becoming fluid. Don't flatter yourself for a moment that your particular little sect or your particular little dogma is going to survive the gentle cataclysm any more than my particular little sect or my particular little dogma. All alike are doomed to inevitable reconstruction. "We can't put the Constitution into the melting-pot," said Mr. John Morley, if I recollect his words aright. ...
— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen
... with natural riches, producing nothing, in need of everything, destitute and suffering from the world's cataclysm: that ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski
... must—to protect her from scandal—did he ask another to dance. At last came the end of the summer's encampment, the return of the corps to barracks and studies, one blissful week in which he was enabled to spend several uninterrupted hours each day at her side, and then a cataclysm. A letter intended only for Nita's hands fell into those of her sister. It was bulky. It was from Latrobe. She hesitated only a moment, then, with determination in her eyes, opened and read—all. Two days after Nita was whisked away to New York, and within another week, leaving two most ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King


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