...What did they wantwith him, these strange men? Why were they keeping him pent up in this narrowcrate? He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense ofimpending calamity... 
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
..., calamity...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...The Marquis talked about Plumitas and his deeds without dismay, smilingas if he were discussing a natural and inevitable calamity...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...In vain the banderillero recounted the event in all its details toconvince her that the calamity had been accidental...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...But, what seemed to you at first a terrible calamity isreally a blessing in disguise...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...Depreciation is the one bugbearthat perpetually torments Sir Charles's soul; that winter he stoodwithin measurable distance of so appalling a calamity...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...Of the two things no colored officers would bethe greater calamity...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...To avert this calamity, the counsel for the prisoner suggested an expedient as humane as it was ingenious...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...” Of one thing I could be glad—not one of my dear friends, upon whom I had brought this great calamity, either by word or look, reproached me for having led them into it...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...The fall of Carthage bridge was indeed a calamity felt by the public generally, and sounded the death-knell of all future greatness to Carthage, or at least for some years to come...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...It is a hard case to be poor in any large city, but to be both poor and black, as was the condition of the majority of our friends in New York, was indeed a terrible calamity...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...The only redeeming feature about this fresh calamity is found in the fact that the species was not deliberately introduced into Australia for the benefit of the local fauna...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The fierce temper, indomitablecourage and vaulting appetite of the mongoose would make its actualintroduction in any of the warm portions of the United States ahorrible calamity...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Gould feared that itwould be exterminated here, but fortunately Australians are nowlearning to appreciate their own land, and there is no danger ofsuch a calamity...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
..." "They frequently tend to become entirely black; and a singular superstition prevails in the vicinity that, when a black calf is born, some calamity impends over the noble house of Ferrers...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
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