adversity

• These able writers were prophets of adversity, and the inheritors of their faith claim that their predictions were startlingly verified The free-traders, as an answer to this arraignment of their tariff policy, seek to charge responsibility for the financial disasters to the hasty and inconsiderate changes made in the tariff in 1857, for which both parties were in large degree if not indeed equally answerable. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
• It stands to reason that they cannot have brothers born for adversity, and cannot count on the joy of the love that loveth at all times; for they do not possess the quality which secures it. —  Friendship
• It showed those who consulted it if any adversity were about to befall them; if any one they loved were friend or foe.--Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (“The Squire’s Tale,” unfinished Or call up him who left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold That owned the virtuous ring and glass Milton, Il Penseroso Mirror (_Kelly’s_), Dr. Dee’s speculum. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• The second head is tried by adversity--Adam after the fall. —  Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist
• And I wished to show you that I have a spirit that can struggle with adversity, and a soul prescient of overwhelming it You have a spirit I reverence, and a soul I worship, nor is there a happier being in the world this moment than Ferdinand Armine. —  Henrietta Temple A Love Story

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