It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.
Although of war and natural calamities everywhere asecene of devastation met the eye, you can still differentiate and analyze its hesternal charming and graceful bearing.
He was oppressed with a sense of calamity happening, if it were not calamity already happened; and as he crossed the last watershed and dropped down into the valley toward camp, he proceeded with greater caution.
ALICE WINKLER: For the next 30 minutes, I invite you to try to forget about that long list of calamities conspiring to ruin your enjoyment of the Rio Olympics, not to mention the health and welfare of the athletes themselves.