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"'All erbout ther turribul disaster. An' when yer buys a paper yer see in big letters at ther top, 'Man Kills, and down below it, 'Mother-in-law! But in little type between them yer read ther follerin', to wit, 'Cat to spite. I've been stung by them things before." "I'm going to buy one, anyway," laughed Ted. "I don't mind being stung for a cent."
He wished Otto Harkaman were there. He could probably name, without stopping for breath, a hundred great nations that went down into rubble because their rulers believed that they should bow instead of rule, and couldn't bring themselves to shed the blood of their people. Edvard would have been a fine and admirable man, as a little country baron. Where he was, he was a disaster.
There were many battles of tongue and spirit but when the smoke had been swept away, the vision was clearer, the purpose firmer. That monotony might not work disaster or routine grow irksome our workdays were interspersed with picnics, journeys to famous spots and, for the nights, moonlight sails on the Inland Sea. To Jane and me his attitude was one of kindly deference and attention.
On this occasion, the Jews and Mahometans, who served in the army of Kublai, upbraided his Christian soldiers with the disaster which had happened to the cross in this battle.
So Leonardo da Vinci drove inference and intuition abreast without disaster, and gathered from purple distances of thought their wildest and most splendid flowers. To him, as has been well said, philosophy was something giving strange swiftness and double sight, clairvoyant of occult gifts in common or uncommon things.
In fact, every disaster which Napoleon could anticipate had occurred; the melancholy conformity, therefore, of his situation with that of the Swedish conqueror, threw his mind into such a state of agitation, that his health became still more seriously affected than it had been at Malo-Yaroslawetz.
It is said that the great disaster with the Gauls befell the city in consequence of this ceremony having been neglected. The barbarians were besieging Clusium; Fabius Ambustus was sent as an ambassador to their camp to make terms on behalf of the besieged.
I should always have preferred it, but there were many reasons to render it impossible. On my arrival at Marly, I found everything in trouble there: the King so chagrined that he could not hide it although usually a master of himself and of his face: the Court believing that some new disaster had happened which would unwillingly be declared.
And out in the night, clouds raced over the moon, which had come full once more. Pierson went back to his study, and wrote to Gratian. "If you can get leave for a few days, my dear, I want you at home. I am troubled about Nollie. Ever since that disaster happened to her she has been getting paler; and to-day she fainted. She won't see a doctor, but perhaps you could get her to see George.
The number of his serfs was ten thousand, and his rule over them was even less disputed than theirs over their domestic animals. The inhabitants of the place had noticed with dismay that the slumber-flag had not been hoisted on the castle, although it was half an hour after the usual time. So rare a circumstance betokened sudden wrath or disaster, on the part of Prince Alexis.
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