He listened to her heavy footsteps retreating across the garden, and her murmured exclamations over the sudden financial calamity.

Everyone was to act exactly as though in a sudden calamity.

To see one's hair turn perfectly white in one night, and the face seemingly young, foretells sudden calamity and deep grief.

To see a roof falling in, you will be threatened with a sudden calamity.

To protect against a sudden financial calamity, those about to graduate should make sure that coverage is not interrupted, insurance experts say.

Unlike many Neediest Cases families, the Jameses suffered no sudden calamity that cast them into poverty.

We have no difficulty taking prompt action when faced with a sudden calamity, like a bleeding head wound, say, or a terrorist attack.

MOST victims of sudden calamity - a car accident, say, or an earthquake - never get a chance to say goodbye.

That bent the rules: the Federal money is meant to help victims of sudden calamities like floods.

And its cruelty is the sudden calamity an unsuspecting outfielder can innocently drift under.