Both Uses of
calamity
in
The War of the Worlds
- And invisible to me because it was so remote and small, flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were sending us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth.†
Chpt 1.1
- What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?†
Chpt 1.13 *
Definition:
a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it