The Only Use of
calamity
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- This is the speech—I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it