Hardship

Examples

• We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and further orders not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now as for Fanny there, a little hardship would do her good. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His high wages arise altogether from the hardship, disagreeableness, and dirtiness of his work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Is there anything you want that would lessen the hardship of this confinement? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But it is not easy to find any accurate measure either of hardship or ingenuity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His mother had braved hardship in order to separate herself from it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He seems to be conscientiously afraid of appearing indolent, and in consequence subjects himself regularly to unnecessary hardship. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer of 90 was no hardship. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I commenced by inuring my body to hardship. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Let the worst come, I can work, as Joe Scott does, for an honourable living; in such doom I yet see some hardship but no degradation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If it were a new hardship it would be a new reason for me to cling to you, said Dorothea, fervidly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Half the population of Vienna, it is believed, unless American relief comes quickly, is doomed to die of hardship before the spring. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is no hardship, I suppose, nothing unpleasant, said Edmund, in going on the barouche box. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Come, come, Thuvia, I said soothingly; you are overwrought by the danger and hardships you have passed through. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There were hardships, she allowed, in the position of a governess. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Cannot you invent a few hardships for yourself, and be contented to stay? Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is one thing to have been engaged in war, to have shared its dangers and hardships; it is another thing to hear or read about it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What were a few long hours added to the hardships of some over-taxed brutes when weighed against the peril of those human souls? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Humanity would dictate that some provision should be made to provide against such hardships. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Almost every attempt to mitigate the hardships of industrialism has had to deal with the bogey of liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Yet I fear such will be my fate; the men, unsupported by ideas of glory and honour, can never willingly continue to endure their present hardships. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Yet, do I dare ask you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I think it was to be expected that I should try to avert some of the hardships which our marriage has brought on me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I now found the hardships and lawlessness of my youth turn to account. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In this one little was said of the hardships endured, the dangers faced, or the homesickness conquered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It's more a question of hardships than of terrors. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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