All 6 Uses of
calamity
in
David Copperfield
- And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Some flickering efforts to spare you the premature knowledge of his calamitous position, you may observe in him this day; but hope has sunk beneath the horizon, and the undersigned is Crushed.†
Chpt 28-30
- 'This is a dreadful calamity, Mr. Copperfield,' said he, as I entered.†
Chpt 37-39
- ' The relish with which Mr. Micawber described himself as a prey to these dismal calamities, was only to be equalled by the emphasis with which he read his letter; and the kind of homage he rendered to it with a roll of his head, when he thought he had hit a sentence very hard indeed.†
Chpt 52-54
- And now, indeed, I began to think that in my old association of her with the stained-glass window in the church, a prophetic foreshadowing of what she would be to me, in the calamity that was to happen in the fullness of time, had found a way into my mind.†
Chpt 52-54
- As the endurance of my childish days had done its part to make me what I was, so greater calamities would nerve me on, to be yet better than I was; and so, as they had taught me, would I teach others.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it