Use calamity in a sentence
Sentences ending with calamity
- Oh, be thou wise--name the calamity! [5]
- Of course there was an intimate connection between the prodigy and the calamity. [6]
- Philip was greatly troubled, and exaggerated his own share in the bringing about of the calamity. [5]
- He had crossed the threshold of the paraschites most reluctantly, and the thought that he, of all men, had been selected to censure a deed of the noblest humanity, and to bring her who had done it to judgment, weighed upon him as a calamity. [10]
- She had more spirit than her husband in their calamity. [4]
- And when Judkins put in appearance, riding a lame horse, and dismounted with the cramp of a rider, his dust-covered figure and his darkly grim, almost dazed expression told Jane of dire calamity. [13]
- In that case, only about twenty were admitted to the secret; and yet one of them, in his anxiety to save a friend, betrayed the plot to that friend, and, by consequence, averted the calamity. [7]
- If the effect of the nervous shock had stopped there, it would have been a misfortune for my cousin and myself, but hardly a calamity. [6]
- It was very late when he awoke, and opened his eyes to a confused sense of some great calamity. [4]
- We sometimes hear it in the middle of the night, breaking the silence like a suggestion of coming calamity. [4]
Short sentences using calamity
- What a calamity! [2]
Sentences containing calamity two or more times
- It is a world calamity, indeed, but a calamity, since it has come, to be spiritualized and utilized for the benefit of the future society of mankind. [9]
More example sentences with the word calamity in them
- And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
- For him, the world had become awry; he abhorred divorce, and that this modern abomination had touched the house of Chiltern was a calamity that had shaken the very foundations of his soul. [9]
- Beside this deserted village, even Calamity Pond, shallow, sedgy, with its ragged shores of stunted firs, and its melancholy shaft that marks the spot where the proprietor of the iron-works accidentally shot himself, is cheerful. [4]
- After that dark town-meeting day some of those stern old fathers became broken men, and it is said in Coniston that this calamity to righteous government, and not the storm, gave to Priest Ware his death-stroke. [9]
- Unable as yet to grasp the full extent of her calamity, she rode on by his side, until she was aware at last that they had reached the door of the house at Highlawns. [9]
- Davis has sworn to destroy my army, and Beauregard has come to do the work,--so if you expect to share in our calamity, come down. [9]
- My numbness began to be penetrated by shooting pains, and I grasped little by little the fulness of my calamity, until I was in the state of wild rebellion of one whom life for the first time has foiled in a supreme desire. [9]
- Now I understood the stupendous calamity that had overtaken England. [5]
- He had accepted the fact as he would have accepted the calamity of losing his sight or his hearing. [6]
- By the time the ditch has become twelve or fifteen feet wide, the calamity is as good as accomplished, for no power on earth can stop it now. [5]
- Died creditably, too; that will make the calamity the easier for my father. [5]
- It is probable that when the mind has been strained for a long time, and the heart and body suffered much, one sees a calamity vaguely, and cannot define it; appreciates it, and does not know it. [11]
- Eventually, every calamity that happened thereabouts was laid at the door of that music. [5]
- As in the stupor of a sudden calamity, and not fully comprehending it, Mrs. Hawkins saw Laura led away by the officer. [5]
- In calamity, trouble, sorrow, it is wonderful how the ties of blood assert themselves. [4]
- But when I revealed to them the calamity in store, and saw how mighty was the terror it did engender, then saw I also that this was the time to strike! [5]
- They looked me over, wondering, and the Child of Calamity says-- 'A cussed thief! [5]
- For a day or two the whole village was a chattering turmoil over Frau Brandt's case and over the mysterious calamity that had overtaken the mob, and at her trial the place was crowded. [5]
- He, if any one, would find some means of averting or, at any rate, mitigating the fearful calamity impending over the town and country, and against which prayer, sacrifice, processions, and pilgrimages had proved abortive. [10]
- It still depends on Your Majesty to preserve humanity from the calamity of another war. [2]
- Did calamity lurk on that long upland trail through the sage? [13]
- Then the dread of this calamity roused their energies, and they stopped brooding and began to consider ways to avert it. [5]
- And they were new--showing that this tint did not come by calamity, but was intentional; the very ugliest color I have ever seen. [5]
- Yes, I had made a blunder; I ought to have invented my calamity first. [5]
- I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. [5]
- The reporter who invents an incident, or heightens the horror of a calamity by fictions is in the case of Shapiro. [4]
- It gives the inexperienced stranger a better idea of what a vast and comprehensive calamity invasion is than he can ever get by reading books at the fireside. [5]
- To one man in New York besides Mr. Ault the failure did not seem a personal calamity. [4]
- It was as if some vast calamity had smitten all hope and cheer dead. [5]
- March hung his head; he knew it would be useless to protest that his share of the calamity was, by comparison, infinitesimally small. [8]
- That was the half-conviction that when the nature of my proposed calamity should be reported to those superstitious people, it would have such an effect that they would want to compromise. [5]
- And that he had held a true course had gradually become a very vital thing to her, perhaps the most vital thing; and she could have imagined no greater personal calamity now than to have seen him inconsistent. [9]
- A great calamity, for instance, is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. [6]
- To use a figure suggested by the calamity which has lately befallen one of the most beloved of our cities, there is a theory that earthquakes are caused by a necessary movement on the part of the globe to regain its axis. [9]
- When you stand expecting the overstrained string to snap at any moment, when everyone is expecting the inevitable catastrophe, as many as possible must join hands as closely as they can to withstand the general calamity. [2]
- But he did expect it, and without reason, for he should have known that Carmen was not only overwhelmed with the sudden shock of her calamity, but that she would necessarily be busy with affairs that even grief would not permit her to neglect. [4]
- You have now encountered at last the heaviest calamity that can befall an author. [5]
- If only they could avert the calamity the sin could be expiated, and the Almighty was so merciful! [10]
- And this late calamity, however rude and devastating, soon began to look more wonderful in its salvages than in its ruins, so that I can hardly feel any right to this munificent endowment with which you, and my other friends through you, have astonished me. [6]
- But for this calamity we might have lost McKean Buchanan from the stage. [5]
- The Child of Calamity said that was so; he said there was nutritiousness in the mud, and a man that drunk Mississippi water could grow corn in his stomach if he wanted to. [5]
- They disputed long, but in the end, Merlin, scoffing, said, 'Wherefore hath he not _named_ his brave calamity? [5]
- I were to blame an I permitted this calamity. [5]
- Suppose I should be asked to name my calamity? [5]
- He left Chamonix as soon as he conveniently could after the descent; and as he had shown a chilly indifference about the calamity, and offered neither sympathy nor assistance to the widows and orphans, he carried with him the cordial execrations of the whole community. [5]
- Fletcher Bartlett in, as a leader of the irresponsible opposition, would have been calamity enough. [9]
- He said: "Name any terms, reverend sir, even to the halving of my kingdom; but banish this calamity, spare the sun! [5]
- A death perhaps, and this threw you upon the world and made you what you are; it was always intended that you should make yourself; therefore, it was well that this calamity occurred as early as it did. [5]
- For, apart from all else, this priest had been his friend in calamity, had acted with a charming sensibility. [11]
- They breathed that air which intoxicates, before it turns heavy with calamity and stifles the whole being; by which none ever thrived, though many have sought nourishment in daring draughts of it. [11]
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