Naturally enough he dreamed of Helen and her careless coquettish treatment of his love, which was rapidly cooling down, like the lava after some violent eruption, and giving place to a hard and bitter anger at her heartless ways.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
It was perhaps the most violent and destructive eruption of which we have any record; many have been slight and harmless.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
20, 5. He was in his eighteenth year when the famous eruption of Vesuvius took place 79 A.D., D. Cass.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill