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 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

The greater part of Kościuszko's career is that of a man pitted against the weight of adverse circumstance.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Gardner, Monica M. (Monica Mary)

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)

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