An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
1 Drugs and drug-related violence are major contributors to this calamity , of course.
2 The downfall of two peoples follows in the train of personal calamity .
3 But this is a calamity Of course, no such choice is available.
4 Given the potential for another calamity , direct intervention should be an option.
5 The calamity howler is found in the midst of peace and plenty.
6 We await the impending calamity to befall Afghanistan and perhaps other countries.
7 And it represents a calamity far beyond the bickering of local lords.
8 He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity .
9 The loss of the whale-boat was a calamity staggering in its magnitude.
10 The hussy is but too common, sir; and there is the calamity .
11 Something about the nature of this epidemic delayed the sense of calamity .
12 The utmost of their calamity would be better than the intolerable suspense.
13 However it appeared that some sort of calamity had befallen this planet.
14 Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
15 I have in this, and have had in a much severer calamity .
16 The calamity in the forest had left him with no better choice.
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Calamity в диалектах
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