There was a great eruption of laughter, more caustic than jolly.
If only he had, perhaps the great eruption of "Lives Like Loaded Guns" might have been avoided.
A great eruption of Mount Asama in 1783 was followed by a widespread famine during the Temmei era (1783 87), in which large numbers of people starved to death.
He was working at a time of great volcanic activity in the world, when the atmosphere was often filled with the dust of violent eruptions, especially the great eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815.
Many people saw it the way the Chinese wanted them to, as an assertion of capability and might, but to him it was a heedless farewell binge — the great eruption that marked the end of a prodigal age.
His career is a symbol of the achievements of the civil-rights movement — the third great eruption of the long, continuing American revolution, the first being the War of Independence, the second the Civil War.
So it is still an unfinished revolution, where women's attitudes changed fast, but men's only slightly, and society has done too little to accommodate this great eruption.
IF YOU WANTED to know where the next great eruption of voting-machine scandal is likely to emerge, you'd have to drive deep into the middle of Pennsylvania.
In ad 79 the great eruption of Vesuvius buried the seaside towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae, engulfing also many villas confidently constructed on the slopes of a mountain that had not erupted for more than seven centuries.
After the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, banks of pumice covered the surface of the sea for many kilometres and rose, in some cases, about 1.5 m (4 or 5 feet) above the water level.
