I have no space to narrate in detail the atrocious difficulties and disasters of the short cut.
The tidings of these disasters coming incessantly upon him kept him in a continual fever of resentment and rage.
At the same time news came of great disasters in Asia Minor, and of alarming insurrections among the provinces which had been committed to his charge there.
Finally, he was the last of the Grand Army that quitted that fatal Russia, showing to the world how courage battles with ill fortune, and proving that with heroes even the greatest disasters turn to glory.
At Kowno, as it had been after the disasters of Viazma, of Smolensk, of the Berezina, and of Wilna, it was to him that the honor of our arms and all the peril of the last steps of our retreat were again confided.
Of our disastersit had heard nothing: they had been carefully concealed even from its leaders.
At Smolensk, where he arrived first, and from which he was the first to depart, he had rather been informed of his disasters than witnessed them himself.
The disasters in Affghanistan; the perils of our Indian empire; the rocking of Britain to its foundation.
The Republic "had gained a great victory," whose value was enhanced by the previous disasters of the campaign.
But Englishmen, terrified by the disasters which French democratic nationalism had wrought upon France, preferred domestic harmony to the perils of any radical readjustment of the balance of their national life.
To this may be traced directly, or indirectly, many of the disasters that overcame Denmark during the reign of Frederick VI.
In this matter India is now enjoying the fruit of past disasters and of conditions in which the struggle for existence was too keen to allow any but the fittest to survive.
At the end of November, when over thirty escape voyages had been made, two fataldisasters occurred.
Among other appalling disasters we have an example of a terrific descent from a vast height in which the adventurers yet escape with their lives.
The disasters imminent in Germany, and the religious wars, might quite well have been foreseen by Luther from natural signs, and yet this is just the prophecy on which most stress is laid.
These two disasters in popular tradition were run into one, and gave occasion to the composition of the “Song of Roland,” one of the finest pieces of medieval poetry that we possess.
But its greatest disasters took place during the Wars of Religion.
Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers.
Uncle Ephraim found some difficulty in sustaining with composure the disasters and excitement and fears that crowded in upon him.
The military authorities in Roanoke City seemed rancorously keen to prove that naught within the scope of their own duty could have averted the disasters of the battle of the redoubt.
In the midst of his financial disasters he was treated as an outlaw.
The Consular glory was then pure, and the opening prospect was full of flattering hope; whereas those who were but little accustomed to look closely into things could discern mighty disasters lurking under the laurels of the Empire.
At the end of October the King of Prussia, far from thinking of war, but in case of its occurrence wishing to check its disasters as far as possible, proposed to establish a line of neutrality.
It would not be his interest to let his army or perhaps even Bourrienne know of the disasters in Italy till he found that they were sure to hear of them through the English.
The event was regarded as the guarantee of a long peace, and it was hoped there would be a lasting cessation of the disasters created by the rivalry of France and Austria.
In spite of all his energy and fortitude, he was deeply distressed by the disasters which now assailed him.
Next day he proceeded to the Square of Bellecour, where, amidst the plaudits of the people, he laid the first stone of some new buildings destined to efface one of the disasters of the Revolution.
I hear of nothing but thedisasters of the Grand Army.
The disasters of Moscow were repaired by his activity and the sacrifices of France; but the disasters of Leipsic were irreparable.
Napoleon III had been completely discredited by the disasters about Metz and at Sedan, and consequently the empire was abolished and France for the third time was declared a republic.
Yet the discredit into which the papacy had fallen during its stay at Avignon was as nothing compared with the disasters which befell it after the return to Rome.
The French quite properly attributed the signal disasters of Crécy and Poitiers to the inefficiency of their king and his advisers.
The disastersof the invading army, on shore, were matched, at sea, by the disasters of the vessels that had carried them.
In these mountains, the North Wind has his home; and from his deep caves he now and then comes forth, chilling with his cold and angry breath the orchards and the fair fields of Greece, and bringing death and dire disasters In his train.
These disasters roused the wrath of Yussef abu Yagur (son and successor of Abdulmumen who died A.
Warned by many previous disasters the Saxons never broke their close order, and so, though greatly outnumbered, hurled back again and again the onslaughts of the Northmen.
That general advanced northward, and seized some insignificant fortresses; but the advantage was but temporary, and was more than counterbalanced by the disasters of the following year.
And I believe it is one reason why so many disasters have befallen the French army.
In a year or two after a crisis credit usually improves, as the remembrance of the disasters which at the crisis impaired credit is becoming fainter and fainter.
And we may reasonably presume that in proportion as we augment the deposits of cash by foreigners in London, we augment both the chances and the disasters of a 'run' upon England.
The minor disasters suffered by British arms in the South African War were almost entirely due to neglect of the warnings contained in the official text-books.
Meantime the Romans encountered a series of disasters on the sea.
These disasters induced Licinius to withdraw to Asia Minor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
