Meanings of present calamity in English

But he foresaw that he should not survive his present calamity.

He has saved me from present calamity, but I owe my life to thee.

Desist, for the present calamity is sufficient; and do not, O son, provoke thy father's mind.

Lord Cavendish had lived in the closest intimacy with Russel, and deserted not his friend in the present calamity.

We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present calamity, if it be His holy will.

It was an attempt by Gen. Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, who is from W. Pakistan, to deal with this, that precipitated the present calamity.

It is the consciousness of the indubitable future, from which we can never be divorced, that gives to our present calamity its most fearful empire.

Some verses were published, which displayed the present calamities of his reign, and anticipated the future.

That Mulford was in her Spike made no doubt; and the thought embittered even his present calamities.

It was this profuse expenditure of the public money, to say no worse of it, that occasioned the present calamities.

His dulness, torpidity and indecision, and her frivolity, narrow-minded prejudices and suspiciousness, are among the causes of our present calamities.

"The affronts which I have received," said he, both to the magistrates of Antwerp and to Orange, "have engendered the present calamity."