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
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.
From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write.
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney
With nearly every gift of fortune, and not one single adverse circumstance to struggle against, he was scarcely launched upon the ocean of life ere he was shipwrecked!
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
Had Winthrop lived, failing health, adverse circumstance, might have blasted his promise in the bud; but now nothing of that can ever mar his fame.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
