Both Uses of
calamity
in
Oliver Twist
- It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.†
Chpt 30
- Oh! who could hope, when the distant world to which she was akin, half opened to her view, that she would return to the sorrow and calamity of this!†
Chpt 35 *
Definition:
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(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it