Sentence Examples

1. The countenance of this lady, made beautiful and saintly with an evidently complete giving up of her life to privation and sorrowful tenderness, her gentle and mournful voice urging its plea, her long-forgotten but habitually and unconsciously refined manners, and her appealing and yet appreciative mention of the claims and abilities of her son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be.
2. That adversity made his dad proud, strong, stubborn, and driven.
3. He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.
4. His was not one of those light natures that rise above adversity merely by virtue of their own buoyancy it was in the fortitude of a high spirit that he was proof against it.
5. Holding onto his meager torch, failing, longing for the strength to laugh at adversity.
6. The bitter cup of adversity has been drained by me to the very dregs, and I feel that the grave is not far distant.
7. Most everyone I encounter have an adversity to the truth.
8. Sancho followed him on foot, leading by the halter, as his custom was, his ass, his constant comrade in prosperity or adversity and advancing some distance through the shady chestnut trees they came upon a little meadow at the foot of some high rocks, down which a mighty rush of water flung itself.
9. The fact is I was born to be an example of misfortune, and the target and mark at which the arrows of adversity are aimed and directed.