suffer privation
Example Sentences
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It is certain that at no time . . . will my mother suffer privation.
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In this war it is trifling ... if one folk must suffer privation in this or that way.
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The Lord helping us, we would rather suffer privation, than contract debts.
From A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part by Müller, George
The Lord helping us, we would rather suffer privation than contract debts.
From The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller by Wayland, H. L. (Heman Lincoln)
The people were bitterly ground down, and they are content to suffer privation in the present so long as they can ensure freedom from alien rule in the future.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James