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
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
On re-embarking they were furnished with an ample supply of provisions by the kindness of Lieutenant Brownson, and performed the rest of their voyage without adverse circumstance.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
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)
