How To Use Calamity In A Sentence

Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
Rome and her iniquities; the streets, deserted by the people, were trodden by French patrols; all was silent as the grave itself; and not a friend was there to bid them adieu; not a relative to speak a consoling word to the departing; and none to acquaint the unfortunates who remained behind with their terrible calamity! Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning. Raymond J. Learsy: Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation

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Phillips likes to write allusive portraits peppered with images he can wrap his warm, grainy voice around, like the slowly-rolling Far End of the Night or the feistier Calamity Jane.
A comedy about becoming fully conscious, AND SOPHIE COMES TOO follows the three Abramowitz sisters and their mother Sophie, who may or may not wake from a coma before her daughters take control of their increasingly chaotic lives: Barbara, a single lesbian, doesn't want her wacky family's calamity to interfere with her sex life or the pending adoption of a baby girl from China. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
For example, a stroke, tumor or other calamity in the cortical region necessary for color or motion perception will leach hue or movement from dreams.
By Angie M. Rosales 10/13/2009 Congress has opted to draw on so-called unprogrammed funds available to President Arroyo in this year's budget to replenish the depleted calamity fund by P12 billion instead of Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes. WN.com - Articles related to Nograles slams oil firms for insensitive price hike
After unloading, I decided it would be prudent to park in the lot rather than risk further calamity.
“Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.” A Victor of Salamis
Calamity Jane is an action-packed, rip-roaring roller coaster of a show with one of the most witty and memorable musical scores.
Ratios are now commonly being used as euphemisms to express calamity.
His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession.
Credible resolution would seem to require at least some form of separability, and arguably there is a case for some form of ex ante separation so that bank operations whose continuous provision is truly critical to the functioning of the economy can clearly be easily and rapidly carved out in the event of calamity," Mr. Vickers said. Splitting Up U.K. Banks May Make System Safer, Panel Says
The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet. The Golden Asse
If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.
Lots of economists say we need a'fiscal stimulus' to avoid calamity. The Sun
This calamity is exactly what happened to my Uncle Joseph, who was removed from my grandparents when he was a toddler and sent to the Texas State School because he had begun acting out in rage at his inability to communicate with others. Archive 2009-06-01
Born in 1852 in Missouri, Calamity was an excellent horsewoman and gunslinger, and got by as an express rider, cook, dance-hall girl and prostitute.
Experts say both will turn a crisis into a calamity, hurting the very people they are advertised as helping. The Sun
The Great Depression of the 1930s -- the last time the term rightly applied -- was industrial capitalism's worst calamity. You Call this a Depression?
They built a system that implemented “checkpointing,” a way for the index to hold its place if a calamity befell a server or hard disk. In the Plex
Other research demonstrated that should Canterbury Cathedral collapse in some dreadful calamity, it would actually pay the city to rebuild it.
The prediction of this calamity is here given very largely, and in lively expressions, which one would think should have awakened and affected the most stupid. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
My earlier calamity in the trees makes for great après-ski fodder among the locals that evening. Times, Sunday Times
He thus lost 3,500 francs, and to add to the calamity, did not receive the sum of 6,000 francs which in the ordinary course of events would have been due to him at the end of the year, when but for this disaster he would have handed over the third dizain to Werdet and an associate. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Hence that admirable writer postulates some terrible original calamity; and thus the hateful doctrine, theologically called original sin, becomes to him almost as certain as that the world exists, and as the existence of God. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
As at the conclusion of the eighteenth century, the English unlocked their hospitable store, for the relief of those driven from their homes by political revolution; so now they were not backward in affording aid to the victims of a more wide-spreading calamity. II.5
It was while the shadow of this calamity, unparalleled since the beginning of British rule in India, was over the land that the most gorgeous "durbar" ever held in India was ordered for the purpose of gratifying a whim of Queen Victoria, who had induced Round the World
Things get on and thrive at the expense of other things, so the bigger the calamity for one section, the better the opportunity for another. Times, Sunday Times
Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia. ShoutWire.com
Almost every man on the quarter or main-decks of the "Serapis" was killed or wounded by the united fire of the enemy; and the calamity was increased by the accidental ignition of a cartridge of powder near one of the lower deck-ports, and the flames spreading from cartridge to cartridge all the way aft, blew up the whole of the officers and people that were quartered abaft the mainmast. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
Just consider Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's recent tirade in which he called the moratorium an "economic calamity" that has jeopardized thousands of jobs. Keith Harrington: Good News for Deepwater-Oil Junkies
He further noted that they said Mulungu caused calamity and for that reason they had to hold ntambiko (ceremonies of offering) in an effort to "beseech" him. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Each character faces calamity and lives in a time of upheaval, and each is influenced by those events.
The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity.
Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome. The Romance of the Forest
While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve.
For example, a stroke, tumor or other calamity in the cortical region necessary for color or motion perception will leach hue or movement from dreams.
Wrapped in inexplicable garish neon colors and costumes that suggested a cross between Mad Max: Beyond Thurnderdome and Calamity Jane, this production failed to ignite much fire of laughter. Archive 2006-09-01
The calamity that most commonly befalls the comune is a drought, or the fear of a drought. Diversions in Sicily
It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.
This helps to explain why, for example, when a calamity afflicted an entire region composed of people belonging to a common clan, all propitiatory religio-ritual ceremonies were directed to the founding ancestress. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
In one appalling calamity, a hundred women died in a fire that engulfed a silk filature because the owner had locked them in from the outside. The Last Empress
Hurricane George was just the latest calamity to hit the state.
The most interesting observation about the cuts is that they have not led to the calamity that critics predicted. Times, Sunday Times
The term employed for such a swift, unrecoverable catastrophe at sea is ‘sudden calamity’ but that masks the horrible reality that would have confronted the crew in their last few minutes alive.
Residents used the calamity to make money by selling food, beer, waragi and local brew to the trapped travellers. AllAfrica News: Latest
a calamity before it comes, will exhaust our strength and spirits so far, as to disenable us to grapple with it, when it is come. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
My earlier calamity in the trees makes for great après-ski fodder among the locals that evening. Times, Sunday Times
The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.
At the moment, it's just an uncoordinated scandalous calamity.
“Listen, O my brother, to what my sire told me yesternight of the calamity which hath betided him in the withering of his crops before their time, by reason of the rarity of rain and the sore sorrow that is fallen on this city.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
I shared my observations on calamity avoidance by the CEO in major acquisitions.
A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but random and chaos, a calamity out of nothing, a prosperity and no account of it, a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero, — dispirits us. Representative Men
Above for your enjoyment, via Ridiculous Politics, is the famous Calamity Clegg dossier from clubable Buff Huhne. Libdemologists: Hoaxer Leech Finally Makes His Mind Up
To stave off calamity, mix degustation with the beach, bike hire and waterslides. Times, Sunday Times
Their ability to turn even the most public disaster into a personal calamity astounds me. Exit the Actress
Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . . The Chosen Peoples
Better therefore to try to anticipate such a calamity by assuming the role of an active and vigilant peace-maker.
Those who accompanied the Southern army on this arduous march will recall the dismayed expression of the emaciated faces at this unlooked-for calamity; and no face wore a heavier shadow than that of General Lee. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
The word tribulation means calamity, or suffering. Barnes New Testament Notes
The enormous wartime demand lifted prices and finally ended more than a decade of calamity and collapse on the American farm.
Experts say both will turn a crisis into a calamity, hurting the very people they are advertised as helping. The Sun
{No fee could compound for such a calamity.} 'Twas a feeless fight, finished in malice, Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
It is a condition that is demoralizing in a hundred ways, and is fraught with peril to the republic, peril to society, and peril to all the interests of humanity; and therefore as I would assert, -- and _who would deny_ the supreme right and power of the people to protect the republic from any impending calamity by any just means, _but not by any unjust means_ -- I would claim that it is our right and duty to say that this grand hereditary inequality shall not be perpetual, and that The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
Fragrances; an extoller of the banner of love and harmony; a promoter of the greatest peace among all nations and tribes; a kindler of the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the people; a runner to the place of martyrdom in the Cause of God; a yearner for every calamity in the love of Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
_Wealth_ was, at that time, the term opposite to _adversity_, or _calamity_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Is there anything a CEO can do to prevent a calamity in making an acquisition?
The rest of it is sleepwalking to economic calamity. The Sun
Yes, this country could be devastated by terrorism, or a meteor strike, or some economic calamity.
Armstrong's place on the podium is guaranteed, barring calamity (Landis 'chances are as dead as disco, unless a fellow in yellow named Oscar Pereiro takes a wrong turn on the Champs-Elysees). USATODAY.com - It's the same old (incredibly different) Tour de France
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The policists, that is, the burgesses inclined to peace, repaired on their side to the provost of tradesmen to ask for his authority to assemble at the Palace or the Hotel de Ville, and to provide for security in case of any public calamity. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
Experts say both will turn a crisis into a calamity, hurting the very people they are advertised as helping. The Sun
Economic historians now consider that an almost mystical attachment to the 19th-century gold standard turned a normal business downturn into an economic calamity. Times, Sunday Times
There were perhaps some who believed that the men upon whom the tower had fallen had deserved their fate; and this conception is the more probable if the generally accepted assumption be correct, that the calamity came upon the men while they were engaged under Roman employ in work on the aqueduct, for the construction of which Pilate had used the "corban" or sacred treasure, given by vow to the temple. [ Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
His early career reads like one calamity after another. Times, Sunday Times
Plan for stress, say the experts, just like you plan ahead for any calamity you want to avoid.
All in all, short of an extreme fuel crisis or economic calamity (either or both of which are possible), there is no reason to believe that the skyscape will look terribly different a decade from now. What Will U.S. Air Travel Look Like in Ten Years? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
A priest cannot break the seal to save his own life, to protect his name, to refute a false accusation, to save the life of another, to aid the course of justice, or to avert a public calamity.
As a result of this calamity, life and property are no longer sacred, the criminal classes are flying at the throat of society, there is starvation and anarchy, shoes go unpolished, clothes unbrushed. The woe of an aspiring genius.
Before the oil well calamity, villagers there led a peaceful life, getting along with each other in harmony.
One cause of such calamity is clematis wilt, a fungal disease.
In Britain no bank has been called to account for its part in the current economic calamity. Times, Sunday Times
This was a very serious calamity to the Dominicans, for as they, like the Franciscans, belonged to what were known as the mendicant orders, and depended for their daily bread upon what they could beg, they were reduced to extremity. Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies'
For although no calamity, such as man is subject to, befall, which is for the most part impossible, even thus, better is he that seeks not wealth, but knows how to bear all things easily than he that is always rich. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
It has shown its capacity to plan ahead and be ever ready for any calamity or disaster that may beset the country.
His financial help saved the magazine from total calamity.
I plan ahead to avoid calamity. Christianity Today
To the extent that the pessimism is based on fears of an election day terrorist calamity, it's hard to argue with.
He tells us that such was the corruption of faith and of morals towards the close of their brief day, that had not the Saxon sword interposed; plague, pestilence, or famine, or some similar calamity, must have done the fatal work. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
Once again the members of the Musical Society were tramping the boards in their latest production Calamity Jane.
I had a chance to talk recently with Dr. Sarah B. Warren, a psychologist and addiction specialist, who believes the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico may be that wake up call we need that pushes us to take the hard steps necessary to overcome our quenchless thirst for oil. Wendy Gordon: The Gulf Spill: Hitting Bottom in Our Addiction to Oil
In some of the vicissitudes of the city's pride, or its calamity, the dark tide of human evil had swelled over it, far higher than the Tiber ever rose against the acclivities of the seven hills.
Three statesmen who occupied leading positions during the World War were so deeply struck by the deprivation of human life and economic resources, by the futility of war as a social institution, and by its amorality, that they became convinced pacifists and throughout the rest of their lives spared no effort to prevent such a calamity from ever again overtaking mankind. The Nobel Peace Prize 1937 - Presentation Speech
The areas that were most damaged by the calamity is certainly back on its feet.
So King Afridun, Lord of Constantinople, met them on the sea shore, and they told him all that had befallen them from the Moslem, and they wept sore and groaned and moaned; and rejoicing at weal was turned into dismay for unheal; and they informed him concerning Luka son of Shamlut, how calamity had betided him and how Death had shot him with his shaft. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Sorry, Jesus Christ wasn't based on any real historical figure, he was made up out of whole cloth using the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures as the guide after the Romans destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and wiped out its population in 70 C.E., then backdated 40 years to create an instant prophet of Jehovah who had been rejected and therefore had brought the calamity on. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Whenever any calamity, disaster or accident occurs, their team arrives there as volunteers for relief work.
One morning's natural calamity has delivered tens of thousands of new victims.
Some were _epithalamia_, or songs composed to celebrate marriages; others to commemorate a victory, or the accession of a prince; to return thanks to the Deity, or to celebrate his praises; to lament a general calamity, or a private affliction; and others, again, were peculiar to their festive meetings. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Some also have bought a name revered to future ages at the price of a glorious death; some by invincible constancy under their sufferings have afforded an example to others that virtue cannot be overcome by calamity -- all which things, without doubt, come to pass rightly and in due order, and to the benefit of those to whom they are seen to happen. The Consolation of Philosophy
General Monk's "misfortune" is no less a calamity than his marriage. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.
D·H·Lawrence gradually formulated his unique eschatological thought in confrontation with the human calamity in the process of development in the 20th century.
the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
Judge will speedily take vengeance; the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The skipper was experienced and had faced worse seas before and so sudden was the calamity which overwhelmed him that he was unable to send out a Mayday call.
The calamity of the rightless," wrote Hannah Arendt, "is not that they are deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or of equality before the law and the freedom of opinion -- formulas which were designed to solve problem within given communities -- but they no longer belong to any community whatsoever. Aldo Civico: Colombia: The Calamity of Displaced People
Still, many of us remain oblivious to the calamity. Michealene Cristini Risley: Let's Face It: We've Hit the Iceberg
Yet just then, amid industrial calamity, Taylor landed his apprenticeship.
The threat of economic calamity presses in on many fronts. Times, Sunday Times
It is inexplicable that these women find optimism amid calamity when like lemmings our young rush to enlist in the politics of cynicism amid relative fortune.
I fell into a health crisis, a relationship calamity, an economic disaster, and one professional battle after another as I tried to find my way toward embodying this n|om know-how. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Calamity Jane was also a well-known character when she lurched into Deadwood wearing buckskin trousers and a fringed jacket in the summer of 1876.
If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.
He's fascinated by tales of Wild Bill and Calamity Jane, and covets Hopkins's Colt 45.
Speaking of the next step, for families who have lost someone in this calamity, what's the next step for them?
Experts say both will turn a crisis into a calamity, hurting the very people they are advertised as helping. The Sun
The photography, buttressed by watchful blocking and acting, invites careful consideration of the calamity as opposed to tantalization.
There is no doubt that he has been under enormous pressure as his team have staggered from one calamity to another. Times, Sunday Times
The liberation brought fresh calamity and distress for those Jews who had survived the Holocaust.
If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.
A peek into the world of an ace swimmer who had everything going for him until calamity came calling one day, it is the kind of brave cinema that has been making its presence felt in recent times.
A weird supernatural calamity has thrust part of Japan up into the air like a tower.
In times of common calamity God manifests his favour to the elect remnant; his jewels, which he will then make up; his peculiar treasure, which he will secure when the lumber is abandoned to the spoiler. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
They have found comfort under calamity, and refuge and hope in affliction.
Nearly every calamity and malady known to humankind has a saint to look after it.
The earthquake was the worst calamity in the country's history.
Then the unhappy despaired of life, and learned to his sorrow that there was no escape for him; so he fell to beweeping with sore weeping the calamity had befallen him; and after a little while he stood up and descended the stairs to see if Allah Arabian nights. English
It was noised abroad in the city that Calamity Ahmad had undertaken to lay hands on Dalilah the Wily, and Zaynab said to her, “O my mother, an thou be indeed a trickstress, do thou befool Ahmad al-Danaf and his company.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Perhaps something in her mind had been lamed at that time, leaving it with an inability to take calamity seriously. MURDER MOVES IN
Had the government acted in time with a firm determination, the calamity would have been averted?
Sea-calamity in Rizhao coastal areas are storm tide mainly.
Indeed, the euro is the main culprit in the current calamity. Times, Sunday Times
For Zoline, we are all children of calamity and woe if we live "without a myth sufficiently pluralist to save us."
We also express our gratitude to the media who were quickly on the scene and gave creditable coverage of the calamity.
She said that the nation could be facing financial calamity without what she called bold and decisive action. Times, Sunday Times
There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure.
A few pale figures were to be distinguished at the accustomed resort at the Tuileries; they wondered wherefore the islanders should approach their ill-fated city -- for in the excess of wretchedness, the sufferers always imagine, that their part of the calamity is the bitterest, as, when enduring intense pain, we would exchange the particular torture we writhe under, for any other which should visit a different part of the frame. III.4
Thankfully, all hands are steady enough to bear up under the scrutiny and they manage to avoid any true calamity, although moments do arise when you may find yourself longing for the introduction of a stray sousaphone or two.
Frantic efforts to raise the ship's hyper-optophone failed utterly, and the chief despatcher made haste to report the calamity. Archive 2009-07-01
With the results of the TVA calamity, if you took a canoe trip along the Emory River in Tennessee, it would be like oaring through a vat of thick, toxic chocolate milk. Harmon Leon: Coal Ash: Let Your Voice Be Heard
Despite the looming calamity, no one has confronted the core problem.
There were those indeed who believed this calamity marked the end of the world.
Toyah Willcox returns to the stage to play Calamity, a role made famous on the Hollywood screen by Doris Day.
The Corfu caper is a particular calamity because he is in fact modest and unpretentious. Times, Sunday Times
To be persecuted is not wholly a calamity, but to persecute is to do that for which Nature affords no compensation. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
Calamity struck when the cradle on the trailer collapsed and crushed her boat.
The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.
It will work towards creating public awareness, mitigation and taking action when a calamity strikes.
Better therefore to try to anticipate such a calamity by assuming the role of an active and vigilant peace-maker.
All of them absorb some of the energy and water from storm surges, which, more than the rain falling from the sky, caused the current calamity. Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives
The first inkling of impending calamity came at about 10am. Times, Sunday Times
I will farther, in the sequel, give the answers of some physicians abroad to a set of questions which I was led to propose to them, by considering that should a lazaretto be erected among us, and this country be ever visited with a scourge so dreadful as the plague, the opinions of eminent physicians experienced in this calamity might be of particular service.
The hero of the Romance “Al – Dalhamah” is described as a bitter gourd (colocynth), a viper, a calamity. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Aquino on Nov. 7 declared a state of calamity in Leyte Province.
I kept too good a look-out to apprehend any sudden calamity short of capsizal, which I no longer feared, and during the watches of that long night I dreamt a hundred waking dreams of my deliverance, of my share of the treasure, of my arriving in England, quitting the sea for ever, and setting up as a great squire, marrying a nobleman's daughter, driving in a fine coach, and ending with a seat in Parliament and a stout well-sounding handle to my name. The Frozen Pirate
This calamity is the more heavy, as it carries with it a great disappointment; for very near our habitation was a high wall, the sunny side of which was covered with the most delicious fruits; peaches, apricots, nectarines, &c. all just then ripening; and I thought of having such a feast with my children as I had never enjoyed in my life. The Bird and Insects' Post-Office
Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
They may not care a fig for the result, it's the potential for calamity that appeals. Times, Sunday Times
happily unconscious of the new calamity at home
Calamity's an uncouth, sarsaparilla-swilling, gun-slinging frontierswoman who can shoot, scuffle, and spin tall tales as well as any man alive.
Calamity struck when Elbert's death revealed that he had remortgaged his house once too often.
The chief executive of the world's largest bank presided over one calamity after another in the run-up to his demise. Times, Sunday Times
Some also have bought a name revered to future ages at the price of a glorious death; some by invincible constancy under their sufferings have afforded an example to others that virtue cannot be overcome by calamity — all which things, without doubt, come to pass rightly and in due order, and to the benefit of those to whom they are seen to happen. Consolation of Philosophy
But this season has been one calamity after another. The Sun
The earthquake was the worst calamity in the country's history.
But this season has been one calamity after another. The Sun
When deviant behaviour exists with the cowardly behaviour of leaders, calamity is the next step. Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
By Angie M. Rosales 10/13/2009 Congress has opted to draw on so-called unprogrammed funds available to President Arroyo in this year's budget to replenish the depleted calamity fund by P12 billion instead of WN.com - Articles related to GSIS bucks solons idea for it to go manual
Pennsylvania, and settled _over_ the mountains, -- upon which account, the Six Nations became so irritated, that in the year 1766 they killed several persons, and denounced a general war against the middle colonies; and to appease them, and to avoid such a public calamity, a detachment of the 42d regiment of root was _that year_ sent from the garrison of Fort Pitt, to remove such settlers as were seated at _Red Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772
Happening now, Robert Gates officially taking charge of the Pentagon and the troubled war in Iraq with a swearing in ceremony -- he's warning that failure in Iraq would be what he called a calamity that would haunt the U.S. -- his words -- for decades. CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006
Unfortunately, historical reality is no respecter of conventional wisdom and often requires it to change course if calamity is to be avoided.
Sultan’; and again quoth he, ‘If calamity befal one who is not pure by ablution; verily and assuredly let him blame none but himself.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Earth was among the many planets destroyed in this calamity, and many humans were lost also.
Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? A Brief History of Disbelief
In one of his Advent sermons he said, "The heathen write that the comet may arise from natural causes, but God creates not one that does not foretoken a sure calamity. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
The worst economic calamity to befall a family, and especially women and children, is divorce.
Five minutes later, as they sat round sipping out of the famous crackleware cups mentioned in so many books of reminiscence, the sensation of calamity which had returned to Mr Campion as he came up the staircase burst into his fullest mind. Death of a Ghost
Olema and men of valiancy and that whereinto thou hast cast thyself of calamity so that there is neither power nor strength left in thee to repel whoso shall assail thee, more by token that thou transgressest and orderest thyself tyrannously and profligately The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
During the little segment of time that man has been upon the earth, only one great calamity that might be called cosmical has befallen it. Time and Change
Stone dishes are a curious and expensive article, brought from Persia and Arabia, of a greenish colour, highly polished; the Natives call them racaab-puttie, [12] and prefer them to silver at their meals, having an idea that poisoned food would break them; and he who should live in fear of such a calamity, feels secure that the food is pure when the dish of this rare stone is placed before him perfect. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
We know that the Obama administration will not go after the banksters that created this global financial calamity.
The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity.
Though it appears to be a natural calamity, to a great extent drought is a man-made calamity.
Perhaps more than a handful of those members have come to understand the potential calamity of a precipitate withdrawal.
Dr. Riccabocca was about to enter into a third course of reasoning, which, had it come to an end, would doubtless have settled the matter, and reconciled Lenny to sitting in the stocks till doomsday, when the captive, with the quick ear and eye of terror and calamity, became conscious that church was over, that the congregation in a few seconds more would be flocking thitherwards. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure.
His work continues to present a double vision, one touched by both calamity and glee, and whose self-consciously public language underscores its highly personal timbre.
They may not care a fig for the result, it's the potential for calamity that appeals. Times, Sunday Times
What new calamity could be taking shape in the odd disasters of recent weeks?
Calamity and prisperity are the touchstones of integrity.
“An earth-shattering calamity is about to happen,” he writes. David Wilkerson again predicts catastrophe
A calamity is the shortage of such utensils as sweepers, brooms, brushes and rags for cleaning. Red Cross Report

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