The adversity consisted of the stranded San Salvador Opera Company, a period of hotel second-story work, and then a career as a professional palmist, jumping from town to town.
Etienne was an opera singer originally, we gathered; but adversity and the snow had made him non compos vocis.
In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.
Prosperity do{th} best discover vice, but adversity do{th} best discover virtue.
His most brilliant officers and men of position sprang from the middle and lower middle class, and taking them as a whole, their devotion never gave way, even during the most terrible adversity that ever befell mortal man.
Now that adversity so terrible overshadows the matchless hero of the letters, she throws every scruple aside, and warms to her task in writing unstinted, gross, and manifest libels.
Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
She was a small thing and did not know what adversity meant, and was much bewildered by the alteration she saw in her young adopted mother.
Nor should it be forgotten that in the hour of adversity and in the very midst of confusion, peril and uncertainty, some of the most superb exploits, noising abroad the fame of this community have been achieved.
The smallest wound, the least indisposition, the most trifling adversity in the field, at the fishing, on a journey or what not, is believed by the natives to be traceable to the anger of their ancestors.
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
In theadversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
If thou faint in the day ofadversity thy strength is small.
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem (In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune).
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
That man, again, who always giveth way to anger, reapeth adversity from his fierce anger.
And prosperity then, O king, sought the gods, whileadversity sought the Asuras.
If the latter, there is food for thought in picturing our small party struggling against adversity in one place whilst others go smilingly forward in the sunshine.
Adversity is the element in which he shines; it is in prosperity he falls; in adversity he rises beautifully.
Never, so far as we can discover, was a more perfect example of female excellence and persevering religion: in adversity and in prosperity, in sorrow and in joy, the light of her piety shone with undiminishing splendour.
The wind of adversity may blow upon the fair flower, wither its exterior charms, and leave nothing but prickles and thorns.
The miserable criminal had, probably, many flatterers in the days of his greatness, but his adversity shows that he had no friends.
Come now, if you wish, let us suppose that some adversity befall us, and with this in view make the decision.
A few ardent admirers among the young men, a few old friends whom no adversitycould shake, remained to bring such comfort as they might.
Many a man can endure adversity with courage; success is a greater trial.
Adversity had exercised and displayed the genius of Alaric; and the fame of his valor invited to the Gothic standard the bravest of the Barbarian warriors; who, from the Euxine to the Rhine, were agitated by the desire of rapine and conquest.
Whether fame, or conquest, or riches, were the object or Alaric, he pursued that object with an indefatigable ardor, which could neither be quelled by adversity nor satiated by success.
Experience is said to be a hard schoolmaster, but I should be sorry to feel that this great lesson in adversityhas not brought forth fruits of some value.
My wife, with whom I have lived so many happy years, and who has been my support in adversity and my solace in prosperity, still survives.
This emblem of valour and constancy, which adversity could bend but could not break, he bore upon his banner and trumpets, and frequently introduced it in his coinage.
Not less ephemeral is the mental gloom whichadversity or superstition may throw over the human mind.
If in her infancy she did not always avow her ambitious designs, she always secretly cherished them; and, if in her adversity she has moderated her tone, she has not her natural thirst for secular power.
It had not been given to him to preserve an even mind when adversity came upon him.
Prosperity he had known how to enjoy, but adversity had been too much for him.
Though the ordeal of adversity is one from which we naturally shrink, yet, when it comes, we must bravely and manfully encounter it.
In the experience of life it is found that the wholesome discipline of adversity in strong natures usually carries with it a self-preserving influence.
The story of Timour the Tartar learning a lesson of perseverance under adversityfrom the spider is well known.
Handel was an indefatigable and constant worker; he was never cast down by defeat, but his energy seemed to increase the more that adversity struck him.
But while prosperity is apt to harden the heart to pride, adversity in a man of resolution will serve to ripen it into fortitude.
My brother's good fortune, gentlemen, has made him seem to forget what adversity never did; but I believe you all know how welcome you are here?
Our much-respected friend had seen adversity on every hand and in many phases.
He had to drink deeper of the dregs of adversity ere he shall have cause for rejoicing.
Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adversity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
