Calamities

They will be neither advantageous to the writer, interesting to the public, nor propitiatory for the work itself; since the world care less about the squabbles of authors and booksellers than even an "untoward event" in Parliament; and if the writer of every book were to detail his vexations as a preface, the publication of a long series of "Calamities" might be commenced immediately.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. Various

The following year, one day after Congress endorsed the Declaration of Independence, John Adams wrote hopefully that greater hardships—for Americans—would ensue: It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadfull.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Monday's Buddha has his right hand raised in the pose of Preventing Calamities of Preventing Relatives from Fighting.

Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom Wendy Diamond 2011

And last year she published an unapologetic collection called "Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace."

Ayelet Waldman's 'Red Hook Road,' reviewed by Ron Charles 2010

Ms. AYELET WALDMAN (Author, "Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace"): Nowadays, it seems there are two ways - and only two - to write about motherhood.

Three Books For A More Honest View Of Mother 2010

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

"The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me. Ann Althouse 2009

Calamities have been happening all over the world for years and years and years.

CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

Philinda, in the mean time seeing the little Old Book lying on the Table, in which Galecia had been reading over Night, took the same, and went into the next Room, and left them to their Story, being willing to be out of the hearing of those Calamities, in which she had been so great a Sufferer.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Philinda, in the mean time seeing the little Old Book lying on the Table, in which Galecia had been reading over Night, took the same, and went into the next Room, and left them to their Story, being willing to be out of the hearing of those Calamities, in which she had been so great a Sufferer.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the ancient Lady of Calamities cried, “When Queen Nur al-Huda doeth such misdeed to her sister, what will she do to a stranger like myself, against whom she is incensed?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006