bouleversement
Americannoun
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What is meant by the bouleversement of a planet none of his critics seem to apprehend, nor do we.
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
For the second time in his life Amory had had a complete bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Occasionally this arises from an entire bouleversement of the veracious sense—similar to certain perversions of the insane mind, and then other faculties of his nature are liable to share in the alteration.
From The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day
In fact, I have made up my mind for a bouleversement this spring, as I seriously believe it would tend very much to the respectability of France.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various
He replied he did not think there would now be a bouleversement, but a Ministry of Lafayette, Lamarque, and all that party who were impatient to plunge France into war.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve
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