Disastrous

Examples

• Upon no part of Europe did the collapse of the idea of a unified Christendom bring more disastrous consequences than to Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So long as there was no actual violence, the Senate and the financiers kept on in their own disastrous way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the larger manufacturing towns the same tragedy was acted on a smaller, yet more disastrous scale. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The first two were successful the latter, disastrous. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Roman cavalry came back from the pursuit of Hannibal's horse to turn what was already a defeat into a disastrous rout. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For animal fibers it is therefore necessary to discard chlorine as a bleaching agent, and to substitute a substance which will have a less disastrous action upon the fibers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For there is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now this limited conception of sex has had a disastrous effect: it has forced the Commission to ignore the sexual impulse in discussing a sexual problem. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a disastrous retreat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This peace, the peace of Campo Formio, was for both sides a thoroughly scoundrelly and ultimately a disastrous bargain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The feeling that man is a creature and not a creator is disastrous as a personal creed when you come to act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the number of disastrous explosions has not been materially reduced. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• How disastrous a great drought might prove to the cattle of the Pampas is shown by the records of 1825 and of 1830. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Some was disastrous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Pride goes before a fall, and the revengeful Snow turned the tables with disastrous success. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The overloading of wires is responsible for many disastrous fires. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• During this disastrous journey we lost all those, not of our own family, to whom we had particularly attached ourselves among the survivors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• So began the first of the most wasteful and disastrous series of wars that has ever darkened the history of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And I feel I must say it; I feel it would be perfectly DISASTROUS for you to marry him--for you even more than for him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Unfortunately the disastrous effects of an explosion do not end with the explosion itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This was a quite disastrous provision. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the meantime disastrous poverty came on Lucy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The disastrous result of this experiment did not discourage Edison at all, as he attributed failure to the lad rather than to the motive power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Samaria stood a disastrous siege, once, in the days of Elisha, at the hands of the King of Syria. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The financial fortunes of the battery, on both sides of the Atlantic, were as varied and as disastrous as its industrial; but it did at last emerge, and made good. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If the current sent through our electric light wires is too great for the capacity of the wires, the heat developed will injure the wires and may cause disastrous results. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In 1849 the effect on the French industry was disastrous. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To dip one’s finger into this liquid air would freeze it solid in a second and would be as disastrous as dipping it in red-hot iron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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