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Meanings of public calamity in English

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Usage of public calamity in English
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I raised up the gravest topics of life; private misery, public calamity.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
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We raised up the gravest topics of life; private misery, public calamity.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
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Some public calamity is required to bring us into one great brotherhood.
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
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We now see our private distresses and the public calamity as merely hideous.
Last and First Men
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The death of Papinian, the Prætorian Præfect, was lamented as a public calamity.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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The loss of your oration is, doubtless, an irreparable public calamity.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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He fully saw how great a public calamity had fallen upon his country.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
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His exile appeared a public calamity, and his recall was celebrated as a triumph.
Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
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His death was considered a public calamity in Hamburg.
The Pedler of Dust Sticks
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The financial ruin of a man of acknowledged energy and enterprise is a public calamity.
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. B...
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Her death was looked upon as a public calamity.
The Woman's Bible
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Eight years later, Robert Southey recalled this as "something more than a public calamity".
The Guardian
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To Englishmen it would be a public calamity.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2
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In the twilight of his pallid face, his nose looked like a comet portending some public calamity.
Cæsar or Nothing
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Ata is sorrow; Glata, a public calamity.
The Coming Race
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His death was a public calamity, and mourned as such by the people of Texas and Louisiana.
Destruction and Reconstruction: / Personal Experiences of the La...
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