...They metwith a disastrous defeat, both by land and sea, many thousands beingtaken captive and sold as slaves...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...The struggle was going to be long and disastrous, according to the enemies of the Empire...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Three days after the disastrous attack of the bandits on theCastle of Carrion, those that remained of them were stillencamped in the place where we left them in the twenty-thirdchapter...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
... What ifthe first blow should fail to drive the point to his victim's heart?Werper shuddered in contemplation of the disastrous consequences tohimself...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...One of the first, sent out a few years after the return of the Landers, proved most disastrous, the greater number of officers and men having perished from fever...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Nor is the effect much less disastrous on the man who holds supreme control over the soul and body of his fellow beings...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...But now that we have so clearly seen the disastrous effects of this method ...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...They have to choose between three or four courses whose results, in the distant future, will be totally different; which, too, the slightest accident may render disastrous...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
... When I took possession of it as a laboratory for the municipal course of lectures, the nave remained as it was at the time of my former short and disastrous visit...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Unequal progress of this sort on the part ofthe two species would presumably have been rather disastrous to the oneor the other...
Francis Harper 「The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin」
...It causes disastrous conflagrations; floods houses by gnawing leadwater pipes; ruins artificial ponds and embankments by burrowing;and damages foundations, floors, doors, and furnishings of dwellings...
David E. Lantz 「House Rats and Mice」
...October brought her an experience whichmight have proved disastrous, but which,fortunately, resulted in nothing more than apassing fright...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...But once a fool always a fool, and the greaterthe power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the usehe makes of it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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