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

No future chronicler shall say of him, His fame outran his merit; or his merit Halted behind some adverse circumstance, And never won the glory it deserved.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Moses, Montrose Jonas

I mean that you will go to her and not allow hope to die out of your breast; you will go as a brave girl should, making the best of what seems an adverse circumstance.

From A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School by Meade, L. T.

At the sight, my enthusiasm, which I thought quenched forever in the overwhelming flood of adverse circumstance, was rekindled; my imagination stimulated.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

In the latter plays we find the heroines, by their sweet womanly guidance and gentle but firm control, triumphantly bringing good out of evil in spite of adverse circumstance.

From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred