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

Religion, laws, are old—that is, so much achieved and victorious truth, wrung from adverse circumstance by heroic men who beat the world and left their work in evidence.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

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)

I struggled against the impulse, but I was drawn back, through every difficult and adverse circumstance, as by a mighty engine.

From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles

Glynn was at that romantic age when young men have a tendency to think themselves capable of doing almost anything, with or without ordinary facilities, and in the face of any amount of adverse circumstance.

From The Red Eric by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)