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
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 Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
Another adverse circumstance which must be called to mind in such a review is the long period of commercial depression which followed a short period of fictitious prosperity and inflated values.
From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by H. T. (Henry Thomas) Purchas
This alone prevailed over his reluctant nature, his protesting affections, and his adverse circumstance.
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
Nothing was said during its progress, but when Sarah had finally departed after her first triumph, won under every adverse circumstance of strangeness and limited resources, Carmichael took his aunt's hand and kissed it.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
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