Meanings of terrible visitation in English

This terrible visitation brought young Lambton, of Lambton Hall, to his senses.

He had no longer any hope of escaping the terrible visitation.

When this terrible visitation was at its height Yamba made a curious suggestion to me.

From this terrible visitation Berwick, which was before called the Alexandria of the West, never recovered.

You will see from this what a terrible visitation to a God-fearing man this illness was.

They continued to work in his parish only until the terrible visitation of the cholera in 1866.

Year by year with unbroken regularity the terrible visitation of the country by the justices went on.

It was the pestilence called the "Black Death," the most terrible visitation that Europe has ever known.

There was one in this miserable society whose only object in life was to support Venetia under her terrible visitation.

It had considerably alarmed the citizens, who remembered the comet of the previous year, and the terrible visitation which had followed.

All babies learn to speak; or, if they do not, we know that it means a terrible visitation,- acalamityrare, thank God!

Master Harmer says that things are beginning to look up again after the terrible visitation, and surely your affairs will look up likewise.

A few extracts from Pepys's "Diary," the evidence of an eye-witness and a contemporary, show the ghastly aspects of this terrible visitation.

There is one circumstance which will form a particular datum in the history of the Western wild tribes,- Imeanthe terrible visitation of the small-pox

To escape those terrible visitations, therefore, he made up his mind to seek a refuge in Canada.

"Yes, madam," said I, "this is a very grievous and terrible visitation.