It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them in full disaster ere they knew.
He then remitted a part of the taxes, professedly on account of several national calamities which had recently fallen upon the country, but really to bid for popular favour: this also was vain.
Come on; be thou my food, and be thou a fury to these seditious varlets and a byword to the world, which is all that is now wanting to complete the calamities of us Jews.
Besides its ordinary share in the vicissitudes and calamitiesof the war, his town of Aberdeen was twice pillaged by Montrose, with laudable impartiality--once for the Covenanters and once for the Royalists.
Your remedies are powerful, you tell me; and for the calamities of which you speak to befall me, I would have to be among the rare exceptions--also my wife would have to be among the number of those rare exceptions.
Whilst these two acted in harmony they achieved brilliant triumphs, but their personal antagonism greatly contributed, at a subsequent period, to the calamities of the country.
In the midst of these perpetual struggles and successive calamities closed the sixteenth century, and began the seventeenth quite as inauspiciously for the Hungarians.
The royal house of Hapsburg, whose dynasty had ruled over Hungary for three centuries, was declared to have forfeited its right to the throne by instigating and bringing upon the country the calamities of a great war.
But wherefore, O my God, hast thou presented to us the afflictions and calamities of this life in the name of waters?
These calamities are avoided by death, for even though they should never happen, there is a possibility that they may; but it never occurs to a man, that such a disaster may befal him himself.
The great deliverers of men have, for the most part, saved them from calamities which we all recognise as evil, from calamities which are the ancient enemies of humanity.
The boast of the realist (applying what the reviewers call his scalpel) is that he cuts into the heart of life; but he makes a very shallow incision if he only reaches as deep as habits and calamities and sins.
There happened that year a very great drought, which the pagans ascribed to the coming of the new Christian bishop, saying that their god Marnas had foretold that Porphyrius would bring public calamities and disasters on their city.
At length he roused their attention by foretelling the distress of their city, and the calamitieswhich it was to suffer from the army of the emperor Constans, who, landing soon after in Italy, laid siege to Benevento.
When we consider the zeal and joy with which the saints sacrificed themselves for their neighbors, how must we blush at, and condemn our insensibility at the spiritual and the corporal calamities of others!
In his epistles, we find him continually providing for the necessities of all churches, especially of those in Italy, which the wars of the Lombards and other calamities had made desolate.
Many sinners are moved by alarming sensible dangers or calamities to enter into themselves, on whom the terrors of the divine judgment make very little impression.
This sickness, which was the greatest of calamities to the pagans, was but an exercise and trial to the Christians, who showed, on that occasion, how contrary the spirit of charity is to the interestedness of self love.
These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted by great public calamitiesand by bad institutions, to carry civilisation rapidly forward.
The discontent engendered by maladministration was heightened by calamities which the best administration could not have averted.
The calamities of his house, the heroic death of his father, his own long sufferings and romantic adventures, made him an object of tender interest.
England owes her escape from such calamities to an event which her historians have generally represented as disastrous.
The calamities produced by our intestine wars seemed to him to be confined to the nobles and the fighting men, and to leave no traces such as he had been accustomed to see elsewhere, no ruined dwellings, no depopulated cities.
The calamities of civil war were confined to the slaughter on the field of battle, and to a few subsequent executions and confiscations.
The scanty and superficial civilisation which the Britons had derived from their southern masters was effaced by the calamities of the fifth century.
When, in the midst of intense bodily sufferings from disease, and mental sufferings from calamities in his family, he besought some little liberty, he was met with threats of committal to a dungeon.
In answer to the question what comets signify, he commits himself entirely to the idea that they indicate the wrath of God, and therefore calamities of every sort.
It is one of the calamities of war, that, while it compels the employment of large means, it blunts the moral sense, and breeds too frequently an insensibility to the obligations incurred.
The Iroquois now became peculiarly turbulent, and, as will soon be seen, brought dreadfulcalamities on the whites.
But the infinite variety of their calamities stirred up the people to revenge, and they found agents to give it, for a time, a degree of effect.
It was the means of bringing upon the French settlements, in Canada, all the calamities of savage warfare for nearly a hundred years.
He retired to Carthagena in deep depression of spirits, on account of the calamities of his country.
It is an old complaint, that the Gospel is the cause of all the ills and calamities that befall mankind.
The incursions of the French and English freebooters, to which he refers in the same letter, had commenced six years before, and these incursions bring the tale of the island's calamities to a climax.
Such are the calamities that are suspended over the heads of the inhabitants of the West Indian Islands.
The destruction of the Armada and of the fleets subsequently equipped by Philip II for the invasion of Ireland were calamities from which Spain never recovered.
Yet more awful than the physical calamities which the prophet unveils throughout these terrible years are his bitter portraits of the character of his people, whom no word of their God nor any of His heavy judgments could move to repentance.
As he had traced thecalamities of Judah to her disobedience of Yahweh, they traced those which hit themselves hardest as women to their having ceased to worship Ashtoreth.
A desire for a lasting peace prevailed, and the calamities of both parties brought Protestants and Catholics nearer to one another.
God inflicted His own punishments by visiting calamities on mankind, just as He bestowed His own rewards by sending bounteous harvests in due season.
He has sent down calamities on the House of Hsia, to make manifest its crimes.
The King of Shang," he said in his address to the high officers who collected around him, "does not reverence God above, and inflicts calamities on the people below.
In the meanwhile, grievouscalamities had befallen the nation.
Common vigilance and common sense would have averted the calamities that followed; but the Hurons were like a doomed people, stupefied, sunk in dejection, fearing everything, yet taking no measures for defence.
We are all agreed that prostitution is one of the greatest calamities of humanity, and are also agreed, that in this evil not the women are guilty, but we, men, because the demand gives birth to the offer.
The old proprietresses and housekeepers, of course, had never heard of fatality; but inwardly, with the soul, they sensed its mysterious presence in the inevitable calamities of that terrible year.
Within six years two hailstorms swept away my crops; one year was a misgrowth; there were seven floods; a rot among my sheep: all possible calamities befell me and my manor.
I neglected his advice, and many of the ensuing calamities were the consequence.
The knowledge of my calamities procured me sweet consolation; and I were insensible indeed, and ungrateful, did my heart remain unmoved on occasions like these.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calamities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
