The news of these disasters was a terrible shock to Paris.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
The black warriors watched with joy in their eyes each movement of that little hand, firmly believing it possessed powerful "charms," which would protect them and secure them against a multitude of disasters.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He could hardly bring himself to contemplate the probability of her being cast adrift, saddled with a man who, it was evident, would only involve her in fresh disasters, and, he fancied, reproach her as the cause of them.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton