adverse circumstance
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In the preface to the novel’s third edition, in 1841, Dickens writes that he “wished to show, in little Oliver, the principle of Good surviving through every adverse circumstance, and triumphing at last.”
From Time ● Jan. 27, 2012
They draw their moral strength and their ability to contend intelligently against adverse circumstance largely from what is told them by the men who surround them.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
No future chronicler shall say of him, His fame outran his merit; or his merit Halted behind some adverse circumstance, And never won the glory it deserved.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Montrose Jonas Moses
But her habit was not to sit down under an adverse circumstance, but to probe its source and eradicate it, or, at least, counteract it.
From Halcyone by Elinor Glyn
She had not merely that, but a buoyant, recuperative, physical nature, which threw off every adverse circumstance as a foreign element.
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
