Disasters

Examples

• Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What a series of misfortunes and disasters! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Here's a disaster--a multiplicity of disasters in short, as Lady Berwick said one day, when the compound evils fell upon her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So Athens was disliked and envied by her own empire; her disasters were not felt and shared as disasters by her subject-cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But I can be the first to support and guard my country, now that terrific disasters and ruin have laid strong hands upon her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I conceived that my disasters were now completely at an end, and I looked forwards to a rich harvest, with unbounded applause. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In consequence of the disasters that had befallen us in the past few days, Lee could be reinforced largely, and I had no doubt he would be. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The disasters of Russia in Manchuria in 1905 released the spirit of German imperialism to bolder aggressions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He met with other disasters common to worthy inventors and discontinued his efforts to improve the art. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I had no choice, after that, but to return to my proper place and my proper work, before more disasters happened to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But two disasters happened to the Etruscans which so weakened them that the Romans were able at last to master them altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I most fervently hope I may not have to add, a day of disasters as well. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Still bright on clouds of suffering dim Shines that soft, solemn joy; Nor care I now, how dense and grim Disasters gather nigh. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The disasters deepened as Regulus spoke. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Yet, as our wars and disasters prove, none of these greater ideas have yet been great enough. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These are unnecessary disasters, but they may be unavoidable disasters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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