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Volcanic eruption   /vɑlkˈænɪk ˌɪrˈəpʃən/   Listen
Volcanic eruption

noun
1.
The sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material.  Synonym: eruption.






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"Volcanic eruption" Quotes from Famous Books



... European convulsion to a fire at a theatre,—and that use must have made it in him a property of easiness. When a man's obliged to work himself up perpetually into a state of artificial excitement about every railway accident, explosion, shipwreck, earthquake, or volcanic eruption, in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, why then, Ernest charitably said to himself, his sympathies must naturally end by getting a trifle callous, especially when he's such ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen

... earthquake of the previous evening, and all that I had heard and read of similar phenomena, I ascribed this brown, dusty deposit to some volcanic eruption in the near neighbourhood. ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson

... of years it was threatened by climatic changes, by the lack of food, by the ferocity of fellow-creatures. Heat, cold, flood, drought, earthquake, and volcanic eruption were forever against it. Struggling from stage to stage upward from the slime a new danger was always to it a new incentive to finding a ...
— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King

... chattering, and her whole frame quivered convulsively. She had pushed her clenched fingers under her cap to clutch her hair and support her head, which felt too heavy; she was on fire. The smoke of the flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption. ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac



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