Within a period comparatively brief, we see the birth, the growth, and the catastrophe of a nation.
For three years the admirable skill of Montcalm and the valor of his troops deferred the inevitable catastrophe of the colony: then the destiny was accomplished.
The catastrophe was inevitable: the folly or wisdom of British statesmen could only have accelerated or deferred it.
Their last public appearance was in the fleeting days of Richard Cromwell, when the comi-tragedy of "the Rump" concluded by a catastrophe as ludicrous as that of Tom Thumb's tragedy!
A more solemn and tragical catastrophe was reserved for the perfidious Stucley.
Such is the catastrophe of one of the most perfect domestic tales; an historical example, not easily paralleled, of moral retribution.
The catastropheof human life, and the turn of great events, often prove accidental.
From the outset you feel that the catastrophe must be sad, yet there is nothing harassing or wearying in the suspense.
Had Mrs. Bines been above talking to low people, a catastrophe might have been averted.
An Afternoon Stroll and an Evening Catastrophe XX.
An Afternoon Stroll and an Evening Catastrophe Miss Milbrey, the next morning, faced with becoming resignation what she felt would be her last day of entire freedom.
That catastrophe came in the form of a civil war, which raged over the country for more than a year.
Grimald provides a purely romantic motive for the catastrophe in the passionate attachment of Herodias to Herod, and constantly resorts to lyrical methods.
Strange to say, however, the catastrophe itself was unaccompanied by underground noises any where near the volcano.
Jerome de Cortereal, a Portuguese poet, has written an affecting poem on the shipwreck, and deplorable catastrophe of Don Emmanuel, and his beloved spouse.
Had this been mentioned sooner, the interest of the catastrophe of the poem must have languished.
This poetical description of the miserablecatastrophe of Don Emmanuel de Souza, and his beautiful spouse, Leonora de Sa, is by no means exaggerated.
To all intents and purposes Sir Charles Dyke might, indeed, have brought about the catastrophe inadvertently.
I was seeking for a pretext to introduce her to her own set in society, when a double catastrophe occurred.
He was genuinely angry at the incident, but the barrister did not want to convert him into an enemy, and he vaguely felt that a catastrophe was imminent, and a false move by the police might do irretrievable mischief.
Money for relief was sent to the city from many sources, and it is interesting to note that the citizens of Johnstown, who had suffered from the great catastrophe of the previous year, were among the first to offer help.
Relief committees issued the following statement: "An awful catastrophe has overtaken Dayton.
Bell, who for more than twenty-four hours had kept the outside world informed as best he could of the catastrophe in Dayton.
Blume was acquainted with her kinsman's early history, she followed his narrative with the most strained attention, anxiously awaiting the moment when he should come to the most fearful catastrophe of his life.
All had been done so quietly that the knowledge of the catastrophe had not passed beyond the domains of Mellish Park.
John's ideas of time were annihilated by the horror of the catastrophe which had marked this night with the red brand of murder.
The catastrophe happened when they were climbing the cinder-slope and within two hundred yards of the little station.
Here you've escaped a domestic catastropheof the first magnitude by a miracle.
In such a catastrophe as this even the Lord God could be of no assistance!
So we drifted; and the catastrophe came very quickly.
It is very expensive for the newspapers, but fortunately for them there is always plenty of trouble in the five boroughs, and an occasional catastrophe elsewhere to help out.
For now a full account of the Dracus incident had been received, and those with any conscience at all, realized that they had been party to a catastrophe that could never be set right, and whose wounds would fully never heal.
He had taken the catastrophe with a stolid stoicism and a bitten lip.
And yet now a foreboding came to them, a conviction that their father was going to die, that some most frightful catastrophe was impending.
And may its ruins crush its worshippers, so that like one of the old geological revolutions of the world, the catastrophe may resound through the very entrails of mankind, and renew and change it!
It was a catastrophe which coloured his whole life.
In the foreground, the main catastrophe of the composition was proceeding.
His comfortable wife, whose appetite had been affected by the cooking, made up for the catastrophe at the dessert.
Shortly after the catastrophe just related, Charley opened his eyes to consciousness, and aroused himself out of a prolonged fainting fit, under the combined influence of a strong constitution and the medical treatment of his friends.
About this time a friend of Struensee made his appearance at Copenhagen, whose cruel fate, after the catastrophe of 1772, will for ever remain a blot on Danish justice.
Fortunately for the country, the catastrophe that ensued soon after prevented the execution of this scheme.
The history must now look a little backwards to those circumstances which led to the catastrophe mentioned at the end of the last book.
Hercules is torn limb from limb; and in this catastrophe we see the blood-red sunset which closes the career of Hercules.
