20 Verbs to Use for the Word adversity

If she had taken impression of anything, it was hard to remove it with reason or argument, till she had considered of it herself; neither could she well endure adversity or crosses, though it pleased the Lord to exercise her with them, by my many troubles and the calamity of the times.

He had left the University without taking a degree, and had seemed to bear all these adversities with perfect equanimity.

There are times when a man must meet adversity and overcome it by his lane, if he's ever to amount to anything in this world.

But Charles II., during his exile, had lived upon a footing of equality with his banished nobles, and partaken freely and promiscuously in the pleasure and frolics by which they had endeavoured to sweeten adversity.

She bore adversity with an honest pride; she toiled in the day of penury and affliction with thankfulness for her little earnings.

In the following spring the husband of this lady failed, an adversity which had been impending since the date when the breast-milk disappeared, upon which day the deranged state of the husband's affairs was made known to the wife,a fact which at once explained the mysterious disappearance of the milk.

Such are the passions of those who have never felt adversity, especially of proud princes who know not how to discover any remedy.

On the 6th of August, as he passed through Winchester, he visited the dying Henry of Blois, and heard the bishop's last words of bitter reproach as he foretold the great adversities which the Divine vengeance held in store for the true murderer of the archbishop.

The Empress honors your adversity, Takes part in your afflictions, opens to you Her motherly arms!

"Jolly" under the greatest misfortunes, and extracting comfort and happiness from all calamities, your true Rebel could never know adversity.

But she seemed to possess a cheery knack of throwing off adversity.

That wonderful peoplewhom personally I cannot too much admirealways seem to me to prefer adversity to sunshine, to welcome the prospect of a pretty general damnation, and to live with grim cheerfulness within the very shadow of death.

the misfortunes of early years prepare man for the struggles of life: but Paul had never known adversity.

The necessity of practising economy should be evident to every one, whether in the possession of an income no more than sufficient for a family's requirements, or of a large fortune, which puts financial adversity out of the question.

But when anything is alleged as a proper object of comparison, since that is a class of argument which turns principally on resemblance, in reprehending the adversity it will be advisable to deny that there is any resemblance at all to the case with which it is attempted to institute the comparison.

If adversity hath killed his thousand, prosperity hath killed his ten thousand: therefore adversity is to be preferred; haec froeno indiget, illa solatio: illa fallit, haec instruit: the one deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably happy, the other happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily sought adversity, and so much commend it in their precepts.

Suppose the physician should be mistaken, and I be hideously scarred, after all, as I had seen fire victims scarred, would I see the love light die in his eyes, would I never again witness the admiring glances Dicky was wont to flash at me when I wore something especially becoming? I had often wondered since my marriage whether Dicky's love for me was the real lasting devotion which could stand adversity.

There should be no greater comfort to Christian persons, than to be made like unto Christ, by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, and sicknesses.

He was also remarkable for his fortitude and resolution in combating adversity: we are further told that he was perfectly acquainted with the French, Italian, Latin, Dutch and Spanish languages.

In it we will drown our adversities, and in its fire consume our sorrows.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  adversity