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calamity
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