Hardships

Examples

• 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 .
• But what of Alice, and that other little life so soon to be launched amidst the hardships and grave dangers of a primeval world? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• All the States east of the Mississippi River up to the State of Georgia, had felt the hardships of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The injuries and hardships suffered by the men who used it, rather than by the enemy, rendered its name significant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To advance along smooth and pleasant paths, to encounter no obstacles, to wrestle with no difficulties and hardships--such has absolutely no fascination to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These are home questions--and perhaps I cannot say that I have experienced many hardships of that nature. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And the irritations and hardships and the general insecurity of the new time were exacerbated by a profound disturbance of currency and credit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Deprived of this respite, I should have sunk under my hardships. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Typist: Willard