In their eyes it was nothing short of a catastrophe.
Perhaps it was the knowledge of this reduction that led Ephraim Tellwright to resume at once and with fresh rigour his new policy of 'squeezing the last penny' out of Titus Price (despite the fact that the latter had already achieved the incredible by paying thirty pounds in little more than a month), thus causing the catastrophe which soon afterwards befell.
In that case, hopeless became admission; my adventure must issue in catastrophe.
As to last night's catastrophe, I am sure thereby hangs a tale, but we will inquire no further this evening.
Where was the use of tempting such a catastrophe?
At the last instant came this terrible catastrophe.
The Story Girl stood on the platform and gave an imitation of the catastrophe of the evening that made me shout with laughter.
When I first looked into his face, I perceived that he had got intelligence of the catastrophe; and a foolish notion struck me that his heart was quelled and he prayed, because his lips moved and his gaze was bent on the ground.
I was superstitious about dreams then, and am still; and Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect, that made me dread something from which I might shape a prophecy, and foresee a fearful catastrophe.
The animals had also perished in the catastrophe; the birds, as well as those representing the fauna of the island—all either crushed or drowned, and the unfortunate Jup himself had, alas!
But it was imperative that the ship should be ready to receive them before the inevitable catastrophe should arrive.
In fact, the convicts' ship had appeared in the waters of the island, and if the pirates had been, so to speak, miraculously destroyed, six of them, at least, had escaped the catastrophe.
The suppuration was established in a regular way, the fever did not increase, and it might now be hoped that this terrible wound would not involve any catastrophe.
" asked Gideon Spilett, quite stunned by this unexpected catastrophe.
They had nothing, save the clothes which they were wearing at the time of the catastrophe.
They observed, with emotion, all that part to the north of the coast on which the catastrophe had taken place.
Forgetting everything but their chief, hoping or wishing to hope on, they continued to walk up and down on this sterile spot, always returning to its northern point, where they could approach nearest to the scene of the catastrophe.
But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
Further than that we cannot go, except to say that this leap did not end in a catastrophe, like the first one they took together.
Great plans had been afoot for Christmas or New Year, but when the grand catastrophe put an end to the career of one of the best "spouters," and caused the retirement of the favorite "singing chambermaid," the affair was postponed till February, when Washington's birthday was always celebrated by the patriotic town, where the father of his country once put on his nightcap, or took off his boots, as that ubiquitous hero appears to have done in every part of the United States.
