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Sentences ending with catastrophe

It was clear to Jowett that, in spite of all, there would be trouble at the Orange funeral, and that the threatened strike would take place at the same time in spite of Ingolby's catastrophe. [11]
He felt that the condition he was in could not continue long, that a catastrophe was coming which would change his whole life, and he impatiently sought everywhere for signs of that approaching catastrophe. [2]
It might be that this dark spirit, this Nibelung of the tragedy of the House of Byng, would even yet, when the way was open to a reconstructed life for Jasmine and Rudyard, bring catastrophe. [11]
He begged all present to think twice before they brought about catastrophe. [11]
A fearful, horrible, nameless catastrophe! [10]
It was a matter of minutes only, in which every second was a miracle and might be a catastrophe. [11]
There is very little in them and very little of them; and so there is not much in a linchpin considered by itself, but it often keeps a wheel from coming off and prevents what might be a catastrophe. [6]
She asked me if I had made one just at the time of the catastrophe. [5]
Only once before had he seen her so, and he could feel the air charged with catastrophe. [11]
Their lives were far from that dolorous tide which, sweeping through a selfish world, leaves behind it the stain of corroding passions; of cruelties, ingratitude, hate, and catastrophe. [11]

Short sentences using catastrophe

Then came a catastrophe. [5]
Her answer was a catastrophe. [11]

Sentences containing catastrophe two or more times

A catastrophe had thrown Jean Jacques into her arms; it would not be a catastrophe which would throw the master- carpenter into her arms. [11]

More example sentences with the word catastrophe in them

During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
Such a catastrophe would be death, in all probability, for we would be swept to sea in the "Sink" or overturned and drowned. [5]
Things had grown worse, until the day of catastrophe, when Byng had been sent for by the leaders of both parties to the quarrel. [11]
The tremendous catastrophe which had befallen Tom had changed his moral landscape in much the same way. [5]
With all this were mingled hints of her old superstition,--forebodings of something fearful about to happen,--perhaps the great final catastrophe of all things, according to the prediction current in the kitchens of Rockland. [6]
This knightly patrician well knew--as did every lover of horses--the owner of the finest stable in Alexandria, and was quite willing to allow Gorgo and Apuleius to remain with their patient; at the same time he warned them that a great catastrophe was imminent. [10]
If it were, we could account for the catastrophe, a few years ago, in the Franconia Notch flume. [4]
Besides, if there was any catastrophe, any trouble, coming, or possible, that might hasten it, or, at least, give it point. [11]
Austen, from the top of the stairway, saw this catastrophe, but did not smile. [9]
The secret of this catastrophe Mrs. Falchion, as I believe, held. [11]
He conjectured that these were remains of the victims of the catastrophe of 1820, and a minute inquest, immediately instituted by the local authorities, soon demonstrated the correctness of his supposition. [5]
In her mind the wife of the man she had discarded was a mere commonplace catastrophe, to be viewed without horror, maybe with pity. [11]
But what is the trivial, temporal accident of the wiping out of a planet and its inhabitants to the infinite catastrophe which shall establish a mighty world of eternal despair? [6]
Or was it that the catastrophe had come? [11]
He thought of such a possible catastrophe with a singular indifference, in fact with a feeling almost like pleasure. [6]
Two men were still living who had witnessed the grim catastrophe of nearly half a century before--Marie Couttet (saved by his baton) and Julien Davouassoux (saved by the barometer). [5]
The oracle, the stars, and other signs announced some terrible catastrophe for the coming year with a certainty that he could not evade; and the few careless days that he had been permitted to enjoy at Lochias had ended with unsatisfactory occurrences. [10]
She could not see him, nor could he see her features at all plainly, but he knew that she, like him, was alone with the catastrophe which his wickedness had sent upon her. [11]
Why should I provoke a catastrophe which appears inevitable if I invite it by exposing myself to its too well ascertained cause? [6]
They are as passionate and agonized in their entreaty as though old Typhon were even now about to swallow the moon, and the greatest catastrophe was hanging over the world. [10]
All at once, on the platform, as he spoke, when his eyes saw the faces of Carnac and his mother the catastrophe stunned him like a huge engine of war. [11]
In the presence of the catastrophe that must endanger, if not destroy the work he had done, the career he had made, he thought of her, spoke her name. [11]
The remote possibility of such a catastrophe had frightened some timid dwellers beneath The Mountain to other places of residence; here the danger was most imminent, and yet he loved to dwell upon the chances of its occurrence. [6]
Thirty carts could not save all the wounded and in the general catastrophe one could not disregard oneself and one's own family. [2]
But if it must give way, he hoped the catastrophe would come soon. [10]
To show fear might precipitate a catastrophe with this drunken mob. [11]
Am I to live to see the catastrophe of her career, and the end of this suddenly conjured-up empire, which seems to 'be of such stuff as dreams are made of'? [4]
Between them and it a great gulf was fixed: and they met its every catastrophe with the Quid Refert? [11]
It was not in her nature to do things by halves, and since catastrophe was come, her will was to drink the whole cup to the dregs. [11]
Now, it is impossible to conceive that the catastrophe which did happen to that civilization could have happened if the world had then possessed the steam-engine, the printing-press, and the electric telegraph. [4]
In his uneasiness Huck found himself drawing closer and closer to the alley; fearing all sorts of dreadful things, and momentarily expecting some catastrophe to happen that would take away his breath. [5]
Now, if ever, he must put forth his best powers, and he dreaded failure as an utter catastrophe, for on the face of the whole earth there was no second model to compare with this that stood before him. [10]
What particular catastrophe have you arranged for to-morrow? [11]
Some hundreds, indeed, had passed the night there in prayer, or in sheer terror of the catastrophe which could not fail to ensue, and they were kneeling in groups, groaning, weeping, and cursing, or squatting in stolid resignation, weary, crushed and hopeless. [10]
Once before she had appealed to the Invisible--that night before her catastrophe, when she wound her wonderful hair round her throat and drew it tighter and tighter, and had cried out to the beloved mother she had never known. [11]
We did not get full details of the catastrophe until we reached Memphis. [5]
How many tragedies find their peaceful catastrophe in fierce roulades and strenuous bravuras! [6]
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]
Her fortune had driven him forth when her beauty and her love ought to have kept him close to her, whatever fate might bring to their door, or whatever his misfortune or the catastrophe falling on him. [11]
Is not catastrophe dead, and the arrows of tragedy spilled? [11]
The prediction cut curiously close to the truth; forty-one years after the catastrophe, the remains were cast forth at the foot of the glacier. [5]
She was suddenly conscious of an air of impending catastrophe about her now. [11]
The autumn had come and the winter and the spring, and the spring was almost gone when she returned; and, with her return, Catastrophe lifted its head in the person of Denzil. [11]
Then came a catastrophe of some kind, in which Alo (whoever she was) suffered. [11]
When the catastrophe came, his first impulse was that of a fireman who plunges into a burning building to rescue the imperiled inmates. [4]
The latest catastrophe bore the date 1877. [5]
They brought him back to the dusty road and everyday life again; they subtracted him from his big dream, in which he had been detached from the details of his catastrophe. [11]
Roscoe seemed almost anxious not to be alone with Ruth--not from any cowardly feeling, but because he was perplexed by the old sense of coming catastrophe, which, indeed, poor fellow, he had some cause to feel. [11]
He turned pale, and his heart throbbed painfully as he watched the development of the catastrophe for which he had himself prepared the way. [10]
His mind was always busy with the catastrophe of his life, and with the slaughtered inventor, and he now took the fancy that he would like to have the telelectroscope and divert his mind with it. [5]
I could foresee a catastrophe which would for ever unsettle the two towns, and give the valley an unenviable reputation. [11]
It would be a catastrophe if John Grier's mills should stop working and Belloc's mills should go on as before. [11]

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