But how serious his look turned, how his very soul within him was shaken, when he discovered that the most dreadful disasters hung over Charles and his court, and that the sister of the pretended Uberto was daughter of King Galafron of Cathay, a beauty accomplished in every species of enchantment, and sent there by her father on purpose to betray them all!

From this point to its culmination in overwhelming disaster and the tragic death of this celebrated pair of lovers, the romantic drama of Cleopatra's conquests becomes even more important in literature than in history.

The intervention of either France or Spain in Italy was, in his idea, fraught only with dire disaster.

God be good till 'im!" Neither Jack nor Nick Marsh dared trust himself to meet the other's eyes as the helpless chief disappeared down the hillside, while Barney entered into an exhaustive treatise on the symptoms of cholera and the liability of the most robust to meet sudden disaster in this malarious upland, circumvailated by ages of decaying matter in the damp swamps on every hand.

To appreciate the situation one must read Carnot's account of the border during these weeks when he alone, probably, averted some grave disaster.

you do not know the awful disaster that has happened to me, all the terrors and the tortures I endure.

He did not desire a fight; he might think the chances would be with his party, as only two of the Indians had rifles, but then if even one of their own party were kicked over it would be a sad disaster.

the two startled attendants had watched the impending disaster, but there was no time for them to do anything.

The policy of the French Government, on the other hand, is to give the fullest aid to those young peoples with the support of everything liberal in Europe, and not to try to introduce at their expense abatementswhich in any case would be uselessof the colonial, naval and commercial disaster which the peace imposes on Germany.

The Thurstonians, however, attempting to make the most of this temporary triumph, met with an unexpected disaster, which quickly turned the changing tide of public opinion.

The destruction of her army at Syracuse was only the foremost of a series of inevitable disasters, which left her helpless.

That way lies stagnation, waste, progressive inefficiency and ultimate disaster.

If, in this case, the experiences of the war, and the fire which the nations are passing through, serve to destroy and burn up much of falsity in their respective habits and institutions, we shall have to admit that the attendant disasters have not been all losseven though at the same time we admit that if we had had a grain of sense we might have mended our falsities in far more economical and sensible fashion.

If this Bill were rejected by Parliament, it would be a grievous disaster to peace and contentment in India, but it would not prevent the Secretary of State the very next morning from advising His Majesty to appoint an Indian member of the Viceroy's Executive Council.

Both kept a keen watch, for it was at this time they stood the greatest chance of taking part in an unfortunate collision that might result in a fatal disaster.

She watched all day, in the same state of blank despair before this frightful disaster.

He had ruled for sixty-eight years, his reign being marked by much turbulence in the empire, both political and social, and by a long series of domestic and personal disasters that culminated in the assassination of his nephew, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the joint thrones of Austria and Hungary, which furnished the Teutonic excuse for the great war.

It is a painful conviction to die with,but I expect to die with it,that generations and unparalleled disasters must pass before my country reaches the goal its founders believed to be its destiny.

It is not just to attribute all the commercial disasters which followed the winding up of the old United States Bank to General Jackson, and to the financial schemes of Van Buren.

These sudden outbreakings were sufficiently common in Indian warfare, and often produced memorable disasters.

If it had been so unfortunate as to conquer, if it had been so unfortunate as to carry out its plans, to create slave States, to recruit with negroes from Africa, it would have certainly paved the way, with its own hands, for one of those bloody disasters before which the imagination recoils: it would have shut itself out from all chance of salvation.

I might have known that some hideous disaster would strike this house like a thunderbolt if once you wriggled your way into it and started trying to be clever.

The Sultan, irritated by successive disasters, brought the whole disposable force of his empire to bear on the doomed city.

I feel myself tremble before the possibility of an irreparable disaster; it is a solemn and terrible moment.

With him is the veteran Capho; nor is there any man whom the veteran troops hate more cordially; to these men, as if in addition to the dowry which they had received during our civil disasters, Antonius had given the Campanian district, that they might have it as a sort of nurse for their other estates.