• Synonyms: adversity, hardship, hard_knocks
  Meaning: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

• Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity.
• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
• The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.
• Had the hour of adversity come? Passepartout was as much excited as if the twenty thousand pounds were to come from his own pocket.
• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.
• The unhappy King Frederick took refuge in the island of Ischia; and, unable to bear the idea of seeking an asylum in Spain with his cousin who had betrayed him so shamefully, he begged the French admiral himself to advise him in his adversity.
• Of all Christian sects, this was the first which, during its prosperity as well as its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration; and it is remarkable that so reasonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the height of extravagance and fanaticism.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Terry Fox, License CC BY-SA 4.0