"public" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Once more the passionate interest in one's fellows, which had for so long been hushed under the all-dominating public calamity, refreshed and enlarged the mind.
- We now see our private distresses and the public calamity as merely hideous.
- Shaw described his suicide at the age of 39 as a "public calamity".
- The financial ruin of a man of acknowledged energy and enterprise is a public calamity.
- It was also generally regarded as a public calamity.
- Other occasions of mourning on which the beard was allowed to grow were, appearance as a reus, condemnation, or some public calamity.
- Christian catacombs dating to the same period reveal bodies were piled-up hurriedly in a manner indicating a public calamity.
- Bernard Shaw described Hankin's death as "a public calamity."
- In the face of these public calamities and private sorrows, Francis Joseph did his duty.
- It might be otherwise during a public calamity; an invasion, for example, such as that of the French in 1672.
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