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Meanings of greater calamity in English

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Usage of greater calamity in English
1
The hesitation of the other seemed to confirm an infinitely greater calamity.
Java Head
2
Of the two things no colored officers would be the greater calamity.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
3
Why, my darling, no greater calamity than your loss could possibly befall me.
Elsie's New Relations / What They Did and How They Fared at Ion;...
4
A greater calamity than this can scarcely befall a vessel in the South Seas.
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
5
Is not such mental, moral and spiritual death a greater calamity than physical death?
The Red Conspiracy
6
Is it right to commit murder to save some one from an even greater calamity?
All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War
7
That would be a greater calamity than ever now, Ona continued, on account of the baby.
The Jungle
8
The riots were over, however, before they had begun, and perhaps a greater calamity was averted.
The Making of an American
9
Talking of calamities, what greater calamity can there be than such a torrent of unknown words?
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
10
No greater calamity could befall our people.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
11
She might even depart before we returned; and than that no greater calamity could just then befall him.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sie...
12
However, having begun hostilities with the US the terrorists have brought an even greater calamity on their own people.
The Irish Times
13
This was the greater calamity.
Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
14
The treacherous timbers had defeated his purpose, while, perhaps, they had saved him from a greater calamity than his fall.
Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World
15
But a greater calamity than those came upon us; in the summer of this year President Garfield was assassinated in Washington.
T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
16
The doubling of the price of bread in any civilized country would be a far greater calamity than a great war.
Sociology and Modern Social Problems
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Greater calamity across language varieties
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