All 5 Uses of
calamity
in
Bleak House
- And when calamity or when disgrace is coming to it, let the Dedlocks listen for my step!'†
Chpt 7-9 *
- "My dear sir," Grandfather Smallweed then proceeds, addressing Mr. Guppy, "there has been a calamity here.†
Chpt 31-33
- I had always been glad of my little power to soothe her under her calamity, but never, never, half so glad before.†
Chpt 34-36
- Stopping to look at nothing, but seeing all I did see as I went, I was passing quickly on, and in a few moments should have passed the lighted window, when my echoing footsteps brought it suddenly into my mind that there was a dreadful truth in the legend of the Ghost's Walk, that it was I who was to bring calamity upon the stately house and that my warning feet were haunting it even then.†
Chpt 34-36
- This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle's making the timely discovery that if in the heat of debate he had said that he scorned and despised the whole ignoble career of Sir Thomas Doodle, he had merely meant to say that party differences should never induce him to withhold from it the tribute of his warmest admiration; while it as opportunely turned out, on the other hand, that Sir Thomas Doodle had in his own bosom expressly booked Lord Coodle to go down…†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it