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    1. It is true that it has been almost 2000 years and we have not seen that calamity yet


    2. and firm in my visions of calamity


    3. Then some kind of calamity occurred; some catastrophe that engulfed the entire world


    4. “I think it’s more likely some calamity has befallen him,” Alfred said, “maybe he fell while looking at the view


    5. Want, famine, and mortality, would immediately prevail in that class, and from thence extend themselves to all the superior classes, till the number of inhabitants in the country was reduced to what could easily be maintained by the revenue and stock which remained in it, and which had escaped either the tyranny or calamity which had destroyed the rest


    6. In the course of the present century, too, there has been no great public calamity, such as a civil war, which could either discourage tillage, or interrupt the interior commerce of the country


    7. the place of calamity; but how I would get away from Pappi was a


    8. unleashed this calamity and propagated their


    9. So many things had happened to her and her kinfolk, she could easily leap to the next calamity


    10. Names, introductions…they were the simple formalities that reminded one that he or she still inhabited a civilized world even in the darkest times of war and calamity

    11. It might be otherwise during a public calamity ; an invasion, for example, such as that of the French in 1672


    12. The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine


    13. The demand of such countries for corn may frequently become so great and so urgent, that a small state in their neighbourhood, which happened at the same time to be labouring under some degree of dearth, could not venture to supply them without exposing itself to the like dreadful calamity


    14. and completely unaware of the impending calamity


    15. Any public calamity which should destroy the republican form of government, which should throw the whole administration into the hands of nobles and of soldiers, which should annihilate altogether the importance of those wealthy merchants, would soon render it disagreeable to them to live in a country where they were no longer likely to be much respected


    16. The calamity, too, would extend much further than to the creditors of the public, and those of every private person would suffer a proportionable loss; and this without any advantage, but in most cases with a great additional loss, to the creditors of the public


    17. alleviating, aggravates, in most cases, the loss of the creditors of the public; and, without any advantage to the public, extends the calamity to a great number of other innocent people


    18. In barely a minute, Bosco found himself on the loud, bustling, creaking deck of the Calamity


    19. Larkey’s aide-de-camp to know everything—and I mean everything—that happens on the Calamity, even who steps aboard,” continued Fysto, his eyes still whizzing up and down and all over the deck


    20. Larkey on the Calamity, as well as with his new friend Longleaf

    21. “The Calamity,” said Bosco calmly


    22. Larkey and Longleaf seemed so eager to help, but on the other, the Calamity seems to keep coming up in connection with matters not quite legitimate


    23. Deputies Dumpus and Porge were hanging around the dock where the Calamity was berthed, both dressed in sailor’s garb


    24. “So the Captain of the Calamity and the Mayor and Sheriff are in cahoots


    25. “Say, you wouldn’t know anything about the Calamity and her cargo, would you?” purred Porge


    26. “As we were a-sayin’,” continued Porge, “There’s a ship called the Calamity that has some strange goings-on aboard


    27. Often, it is a matter of how we handle controversy, calamity, obstacles, or just an overall bad situation


    28. After we settled you here last night and made sure you weren’t going to expire, I went back to the Calamity


    29. Speeding out of the tavern with the first part of his plan in place, Longleaf stepped into the warm evening air and headed towards the Calamity


    30. No matter how many times he stepped aboard the Calamity, he still felt a pang of excitement to board such a grand ship

    31. Longleaf was up early, as he had meetings to attend at the behest of the Calamity, which was preparing to set sail in a day or two


    32. Within a few minutes, they found their way to the Calamity and were waiting at the bottom of the gangplank for Lt


    33. The conspirators stood on a wharf on the far side of Water-Down’s port, quite a distance from the mooring spot of the Calamity


    34. He counted all the way to the last one and, indeed, the Calamity was surely unfurling its sails


    35. The Lieutentant turned to conduct other ship business as the Calamity prepared for departure


    36. Longleaf couldn’t finish that thought, for, as he turned, he saw that the Calamity had already dropped her ropes and caught a gust of wind towards the jetty and, beyond, the open sea


    37. The Calamity was beginning to pick up speed, yet finally, the port agent noticed something on the aft side of ship


    38. He realized that his Captain—and lover—was prisoner on the Calamity


    39. “We have a plan that will be hatching sometime tomorrow, just as yon ship, the Calamity, arrives into your tiny port here


    40. Then she appeared at the edge of the tree line, radiant in the August sun—the sails of the Calamity, billowing in the soft winds up the river

    41. Longleaf, in particularly, wanted a go at Fysto, first for being disloyal to the Calamity and secondly for holding Capt


    42. He also knew that, somewhere in the hold of the Calamity, was Coal


    43. Fysto ran to hide in the Calamity, while their forces scrambled in fear


    44. That’s where I last saw her as the Calamity left port, and I see no reason why they’d move her


    45. They were miles out to sea on the Calamity and surrounded by pirates who would surely discover them at any minute


    46. Because that’s the only thing that will keep the Calamity afloat in this storm—mark my works, you have a tropical hurricane headed this way


    47. With the Calamity beginning to list dangerously to starboard, Fysto moved in to engage Longleaf, cutlass to cutlass


    48. Another series of waves smashed onto the deck and the Calamity groaned ominously


    49. It was a sound that every old mariner knew—the keel had just shattered in half, which meant there was nothing stabilizing the Calamity against the waves and the ship would flip over in seconds


    50. She was not more than a hundred feet from the Calamity when the death knell came, a horrible Crunch! that echoed louder than the hurricane itself













































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