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Sentences starting with disaster

Disaster hung in the dark clouds, in the shade, in the humid west wind. [13]
Disaster did not dismay him, it either made him ugly or humourous, and one phase was as dangerous as the other. [11]
Disaster crushes the courage of the descendant of Herakles. [10]

Sentences ending with disaster

He was not yet even face to face with the fulness of his disaster. [11]
I have the will and the power too, to close the sluice gates against such a disaster. [10]
In this silence, which emphasized the quaking of the earth and air, there was a sense of unknown, impending disaster. [4]
In a letter which Clemens wrote to his mother and sister we get the first chapter of disaster. [5]
Martina asked herself what sin she had committed that she, of all people, should be picked out to witness such a disaster. [10]
I had caused what seemed an irreparable disaster. [5]
Yes, there it was, half covered by the ruins, but its head was erect in the midst of fire and disaster. [11]
The old captain was a flaming son of Mars, whose nose militia, war, general training, and New England rum had painted with the color of glory and disaster. [4]
Now they are wandering, forlorn, hopeless, and homeless, the victims of a great disaster. [5]
Our countenances were vacant, our hearts full of a sense of disaster. [5]

Short sentences using disaster

Great was the disaster. [9]
Things occurred which brought disaster. [11]
It is only a disaster. [5]

Sentences containing disaster two or more times

As the war dragged on and disaster followed disaster, the sense of that necessity steadily grew upon him. [7]

More example sentences with the word disaster in them

Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
She saw now with a terrible clearness the thing which for so long had been but a vague premonition of disaster, and for a while she forgot the clippings. [9]
Observe how we will turn this seeming disaster into an advertisement; an advertisement for our soap; and the biggest one, to draw, that was ever thought of; an advertisement that will transform that Mount Washington defeat into a Matterhorn victory. [5]
Like every knight whose own home was not pleasant, he sometimes gambled; and when, yesterday, ill luck pursued him and he lost the estate of Tannenreuth, he sincerely regretted the disaster, but it could not be helped. [10]
The lost battle was the famous disaster that is called in history the Battle of the Herrings. [5]
Death with honour was an advantage to him; death with disaster a boon; death with scandal was a godsend. [11]
While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. [7]
There was no use--he understood the whole size of the disaster. [5]
He was utterly unable to contemplate the disaster which might ensue if certain financial ties, which were thicker than cables, were snapped. [9]
Yet even this triumph was a misfortune to Mark Twain, for it led to scores of less profitable book ventures and eventual disaster. [5]
They could only tremble and pray, for they knew from experience that a threatening disaster never turned to a good end unless it had been expected with real dread. [10]
He had gone to the house of Jean Touzel, through whose Hardi Biaou the disaster had come, and had told Mattresse Aimable that she must go to Plemont in his stead--for a fool must keep his faith whate'er the worldly wise may do. [11]
A sad disaster to the Federal army was told the other day in the presence of two gentlemen and a lady. [6]
On his return to San Francisco he contributed an article on the Hornet disaster to Harper's Magazine, and looked forward to its publication as a beginning of a real career. [5]
He had helped to make this land what it was, and in battle he had helped to save it from disaster. [11]
Uncertainty is harder to bear than disaster itself. [4]
Shortly before the time set for the nuptials another disaster occurred. [5]
The conviction flamed through me that our lamented disaster was a dream, and this a reality. [5]
He felt the thing wearing on him, and he hesitated to speculate on the result; but he knew vaguely that it would end in disaster. [11]
The Egyptians use them to indicate conflict, and to them conflict and unrest are identical with what we call evil and disaster. [10]
The cause of the unaccountable delay of Sir George and the relief parties among the heights where the disaster had happened was a thick fog--or, partly that and partly the slow and difficult work of conveying the dead body down the perilous steeps. [5]
If she waked, the shock to herself would be great; if she waked and saw him, what disaster might not occur! [11]
The arrival on the scene of this young man, who was scarcely out of his teens, was a shadow of disaster to the Turks. [4]
Dr. Hamel was the Russian gentleman of the party which made the ascent at the time of the famous disaster. [5]
Yet he wished the Roman the most brilliant victory; for his defeat would have been Cleopatra's also, and would she endure the consequences of such a disaster? [10]
A mile below, the raft was brought to shore, and again the people said that Felion had saved the little city from disaster. [11]
She, too, loved the Queen; the news had brought tears to her eyes also; but even while she wept, a host of plans coping with this disaster had darted through her restless brain. [10]
Seward suggested that the proclamation, if then brought out, amidst disaster and distress, would sound like the last shriek of a perishing cause. [7]
I was on the Pennsylvania five minutes before she left N. Orleans, and I must tell you the truth, Mollie--three hundred human beings perished by that fearful disaster. [5]
The counsels of the nation must proceed without you; if disaster follows, as follow full well it may, be it balm to your sorrowing spirit that by deed and voice you did what in you lay to avert it. [5]
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. [7]
The disaster of the house of Mavick was not accepted without a struggle, lasting long after the public interest in the spectacle had abated--a struggle to save the ship and then to pick up some debris from the great wreck. [4]
The thought of the goblet and its evil influences had by no means passed from her memory with the destruction of the vessel caused by one of those outbursts of passion to which, in these days of disaster, she yielded more frequently than usual. [10]
It is like the fire-curtain of a theatre let down between the stage and the audience, a merciful intervention between the mind and the disaster which would consume it. [11]
When news of the disaster was telephoned to the Exchange L35,000 were subscribed in the first five minutes. [5]
The news of the disaster to the well had traveled far by this time; and now for two or three days a steady avalanche of people had been pouring into the valley. [5]
At any rate the disaster that had befallen the image of the sovereign boded evil, that was clear. [10]
On the contrary, the deviations made from his theory were, in his opinion, the sole cause of the whole disaster, and with characteristically gleeful sarcasm he would remark, "There, I said the whole affair would go to the devil! [2]
And especially did the crafts built in imitation of something that had floated down from a previous generation come to quick disaster. [4]
And yet, is the charm of life somewhat depending upon a sense of its fleetingness, of its phantasmagorial character, a note of coming disaster, maybe, in the midst of its most seductive pageantry, in the whirl and glitter and hurry of it? [4]
It seems incredible that, after that experience and its attending disaster, he should have been tempted again. [5]
It may be that you have prevented a disaster. [5]
It was believed that the martyr died prophecying; that the prophecies sometimes foretold disaster, and it was considered a kindness to those upon whom it was to fall to drown the voice and keep them in ignorance of the misfortune that was to come. [5]
It seemed incredible that such a vast fortune should so disappear; but there were wise men who, so they declared, had always predicted this disaster. [4]
He continued in that profession for two and a half years longer, and during that time met with no disaster that cost his owners a single dollar for damage. [5]
She had determined that he should see his enemy and meet him in the plains and face him down; and he was never many feet away from his possible disaster. [11]
The chief horror that haunted him was not failure,--for oddly enough he never seriously distrusted his power, it was disaster. [9]
Henderson will not stop in his career short of some overwhelming disaster or of death. [4]
Perhaps there is something wrong in ourselves when we hear the complaint so often that men are pursued by disaster instead of being pursued by happiness. [4]
The atmosphere was so rarified, on account of the great altitude, that one's blood lay near the surface always, and the scratch of a pin was a disaster worth worrying about, for the chances were that a grievous erysipelas would ensue. [5]
Each man's remarkable skill in defence was a good guarantee against disaster due to carelessness. [11]
Here, on the sixth of May, 1853, I passed close on the heels of the great disaster. [6]
She said that she had not: that she had been told of the disaster, and had appeared shocked; but had complained of a headache, and had not risen. [11]
And with these she delivered a list of 96 missing persons that had drowned or otherwise perished at the scene of the disaster. [5]
This morning I sent the sorrowful facts of this day's irremediable disaster to the Associated Press. [5]
To die one's self is a thing that must be easy, and of light consequence, but to lose a part of one's self --well, we know how deep that pang goes, we who have suffered that disaster, received that wound which cannot heal. [5]
When, with several school-mates, I reached the scene of the disaster, the fire had already been mastered, but many hands were striving to remove the rubbish and save the workmen buried underneath. [10]
That is to say, none of the catastrophes, not even the corruptions, which brought to ruin the ancient civilizations, would work anything like the same disaster in an age which has the use of machinery that this age has. [4]
As the Arabs say, however, Allah is with the patient; and so it was that on the evening of the day in which Ingolby met disaster, Mr. Tripple informed Jowett that he was willing to sell his rawbone. [11]
And so he saved the little city from disaster, and the people blessed him at the moment; and the years went on. [11]
A dull labourer, returning from late toil, felt it, and raised his head in a perturbed way, as though some one had brought him news of a far-off disaster. [11]
Presently, after some reference to the disaster at the mine at Glencader and to Stafford's and Byng's bravery, Mr. Mappin said. [11]
Next day's entry records the disaster. [5]
Look at the rapid manner in which the news of the Galveston disaster was made known to the entire world. [5]
Richard, I was proud to think that you had the courage to laugh at disaster and to become a factor. [9]
It is the privilege of the novelist, without introducing into such a career what is called disaster, to satisfy our innate love of justice by letting us see the true nature of such prosperity. [4]
Brigham moved his people there and got them settled just in time to see disaster fall again. [5]
To protect his people from this disaster he ceded his country to Britain, with a clause in the contract providing for the ultimate payment of the American debt. [5]
The kind-hearted man's patience, however, was not tested too long; for when Helena entered the summer-house Didymus had already been informed of the disaster which threatened him and his family. [10]
When the following paragraph was written the doomed ship was about one hundred and twenty days out from port, and all hands were putting in the lazy time about as usual, as no one was forecasting disaster. [5]
My opinion--if my opinion is of any consequence in this case, in which it is no business of mine to interfere--remains unchanged, that running an independent candidate against Lovejoy will not do; that it will result in nothing but disaster all round. [7]
In more than one engagement on land England had had setbacks of a serious kind, and there were those who saw in the blind-eyed naval policy, in the general disregard of the seamen's position, in the means used for recruiting, the omens of disaster. [11]
The disaster happened on the Acharnanian coast. [10]
The dreadful day of torture ending in a harsh discord was at end; and behind it she looked back on a few blissful hours full of the promise of new happiness;--beyond these lay a long period of humiliation, the sequel of a terrible disaster. [10]
The only effect of this was to deepen the belief that she was very wealthy, and could spend her money without affectation; for it was noticeable that she, of all on board, showed the least outward excitement at the time of the disaster. [11]
Oh, the intrusion of this hideous disease is an unspeakable disaster. [5]
In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. [5]
The unexpected news of terrible disaster might have led them to some unprecedented deed of madness. [10]
This very quality of resolute daring saved him from disaster. [11]
The dull thud of hoofs almost deprived Venters of power to turn and see from where disaster threatened. [13]
Lassiter's subtle forecasting of disaster, Venters's forced optimism, neither remained in mind. [13]
The first chronicles of disaster were usually brief! [11]
The strong smell of burning in every room in the palace had sickened him and he had begun to regard the restored building as a doomed scene of disaster. [10]
I am tired of accompanying people for hours through disaster and perplexity and misunderstanding, only to see them lost in a thick mist at last. [4]
Marget knew that nothing was impossible to Providence, but she could not help having doubts that this effort was from there, though she was afraid to say so, lest disaster come of it. [5]
Although it does not need the human element of disaster to make this canon grewsome, the keepers of the show places make the most of the late Captain Webb. [4]
Serious blame is not necessarily due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are deserving of serious blame. [7]
His antagonist would not accept them and asked for arguments; at the same time he, like every one else, felt the influence of a vague dread of some imminent and terrible disaster hanging over the earth and humanity at large. [10]
Well, the next news we had was of Pope's disaster at Bull Run. [7]
All excursions are much alike, exhilarating in the outset, rarely up to expectation in the object, wearisome in the return; but, nevertheless, delightful in the memory, especially if attended with some hardship or slight disaster. [4]
On the first morning there was substantial unanimity in assuming the totality of the disaster, and the most ingenious artists in headlines vied with each other in startling effects: "Crash in Wall Street. [4]
And thus once more he saved the little city from disaster, and they blessed him for the moment; and the years went on. [11]
No token of misfortune came out of this peaceful encampment, no omen of disaster crossed the long lane of drowsy fires and huge amorous shadows. [11]
It caused the memorable disaster to the Duncan Dunbar, one of the most pathetic tragedies in the history of that pitiless ruffian, the sea. [5]
But if he married Ruth, disaster would come-- Roscoe himself acknowledged that she held the key of his fortunes. [11]
To such a man a funeral is a colossal financial disaster. [5]
No reference was made to his former disaster, and this time he came away covered with glory, and fully restored in his self-respect. [5]
When he saw Mack and heard the details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to play. [2]
They could ride like Cossacks, they could shoot like William Tell, and they had a mind to be the swivel by which the army of Queen Victoria should swing from almost perpetual disaster, in large and small degree, to victory. [11]
Which is, that lightning, kept to itself, is quiescent; it is the assaulting contact of the thunderbolt that releases it from captivity, ignites its awful fires, and so produces an instantaneous combustion and explosion which spread disaster and desolation far and wide in the earth. [5]

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