Upon the remonstrances of the ministers," we read in the Registers, "resolved to delay the representations of the theatre to a less calamitous time.
No longer an object of jealousy, but compassion, Mary trusted in the generosity of a sister queen, that she would not take advantage of her calamitous situation.
It seems as if care never came near him, as if the black ox could never tread upon his foot; we want something calamitous to befal him, to bring him down to us.
For this unfortunate creature every feeling mind will find an apology in his calamitous situation.
Less than six weeks after his arrival in Philadelphia, Jefferson had given him up as hopeless and dangerous: Never in my opinion, was so calamitousan appointment made, as that of the present minister of France here.
These facts must be kept in mind if one wishes to form a true estimate of Jefferson's conduct and character during the calamitous years of his second term.
Indeed, it took all the calamitous blunders of Genet to turn Jefferson against him.
Suppose we use this calamitous fore-noon to choose the shapes we are to crystallize into?
The Mercers' operations soon gave rise to more business-like companies, specially created to secure the public against some of the calamitous consequences of death.
The calamitous loss of his mother is shadowed very distinctly in one of his novels, and the unlucky hero (Gilbert Gurney) is represented as having a single prosperous brother, exactly eighteen years older than himself.
But the results were as calamitous in Ireland as in other countries.
I viewed myself as the most calamitousand desolate of human beings.
It is but just to snatch some of these from oblivion, and to deliver to posterity a brief but faithful sketch of the condition of this metropolis during that calamitous period.
In proportion as I drew near the city, the tokens of its calamitous condition became more apparent.
This widespread destruction seemed to the inhabitants the culmination of a series of calamitous years of drought, wet, blight, bovine pestilence, and fever.
Whence, then, is recovery to come in these calamitous and depressing times?
But now every illusion of this character has been rudely dissipated, and it is time to beseech your majesty to abolish a system during the existence of which the calamitous condition of our state has constantly and hopelessly increased.
Prussia must not make peace in her present calamitous condition; she must fill the hearts and minds of all with longings for war, till the whole nation arises in its rage and expels the enemy from the country!
Nay, he saw that there was a calamitous refinement--a delicacy of shake in the tailor's vibrations, which gave to his own nod a very commonplace character.
A desperate position for any person to find himself in, but doubly calamitous to a martial tailor.
In fact, perhaps Pyrrhus was the more eager to try his fortune in this field on account of the calamitous result of his uncle's campaign.
The following is part of the inscription on the Monument, which records this calamitous event.
We do not say that, in the present instances, such calamitous results are inevitable--we have hope that France may this time achieve a permanent constitution without having recourse to aggression.
As far as the barrenness of materials would permit, we have attempted to trace, with order and perspicuity, the general events of that calamitous period.
Without assigning the cause, history will distinguish the periods in which these calamitous events have been rare or frequent, and will observe, that this fever of the earth raged with uncommon violence during the reign of Justinian.
That hour, though the brightest in the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, was most fatal for Spain, most pitiful to Europe, most unfortunate for civilization, and most calamitous for the Jews.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calamitous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
