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
The greater part of Kościuszko's career is that of a man pitted against the weight of adverse circumstance.
From Kościuszko A Biography by Gardner, Monica M. (Monica Mary)
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 Walford, L. B.
I knew, or thought I knew, that it could be killed, or rather worn to a thread by the slow grinding of adverse circumstance.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
But the abject lord who stoops to every adverse circumstance, whose judicious resolves are scattered like chaff before every wind of passion, him Richard Varney serves not.
From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir
