Calamites

Though past editions of this literary treasure chest have tilted toward the dreaded "nature writing," or urbanites taking to the farm, or even the lost traveler lost in Europe, the 2010 edition rather nicely avoids such calamites, though not entirely. ❋ Joe Woodward (2011)

The marshes in southern Lafourche Parish act as an important buffer from hurricanes, floods and other calamites from the Gulf of Mexico, he says. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In public calamites, when a general drought appears, and cruel wars, or contagious maladies come, we humble ourselves before the power that sent them, and mortify ourselves by abstinence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In spite of all the calamites news on the networks, the death rate for children over there has plummeted, already nearly rivaling that of those in Europe and Japan. ❋ Impetuousme (2004)

-- A quarry of stone at Wincobank Hill, contains fossilized vegetables, chiefly calamites. ❋ Various (N/A)

These and other acts of their own brought down upon Israel the curse of heaven and made them the subject of such calamites as Balaam could not himself pronounce against them. ❋ Josiah Blake Tidwell (1908)

The invasions of locusts are the heaviest calamites that can befall a country. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

Round them, as they gradually went down with the subsiding soil, calamites grew, at one level after another. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Directly they get beaten, it is "Ma pauvre patrie!" and "Les calamites affreuses de la guerre!" ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

In the forests of the coal era, the lepidodendra would enjoy the rank of firs in our forests, affording shade to the only less stately ferns and calamites. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)

Equiseta, calamites, ferns, Voltzia, and a few of the other families found so abundantly in the preceding formation, here present themselves, but in diminished size and quantity. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)

Freezing pipes and other household calamites brought on by the cold weather create ripe targets for scam artists, said Norma Reyes, commissioner of the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And of a kind of aquatic reed (calamites), that more resembles the diminutive mare's tail of our marshes than aught else that now lives, remains have been found in abundance in the same coal field, more than a foot in diameter by thirty feet in length. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

Upper Old Red of our own country, mingled with fragments of contemporary calamites. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

It has in our own country, as has been just shown, its ferns, its lepidodendra, its striated plants allied to the calamites, and its decided araucanite; in America, in the Cadent series, it had its "plants allied to ferns and lepidodendra;" and in the ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

The billionaire recently had the current president, the highly unpopular Felipe Calderon, fulminating when he decried the calamites that Calderon's management of the economy has caused Mexicans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[craig]: 'not only [am i gay], [im] a calamite.' ❋ Richie Dagger (2006)

Jason: "So yeah, I booked a 36 hour flight halfway around the world for a [fivesome] with these four homeless girls. The plane is really old, and in worsening condition, and there is a lot of murder and violence in their country, but I just want to stick my dick into [some pussy]. I haven't had that in months. I was tired of waiting, so I jerked off to their voices." epic135: "What the fuck, you are beyond [down cataclysmic]" *Proceeds to go to urban dictionary and create a definition for "Down Calamitous"* ❋ Epic135 (2021)

The [collapse] of the huge shopping [mal]; was utterly [calamitous]. ❋ Kangsaebyeokplayer67 (2021)