It is intended to show that a lad who makes up his mind firmly and resolutely that he will rise in life, and who is prepared to face toil and ridicule and hardship to carry out his determination, is sure to succeed.
All were sturdy, sunburnt men, who looked inured to hardshipand work.
After ten days of incessant labor and hardship they had only gained possession of the village of Yorktown and a tract of low swampy country.
If an estate were sold together with all the slaves upon it, there would be no more hardship in the matter than there is when an estate changes hands in England, and the laborers upon it work for the new master instead of the old.
During the first two years of the war the struggle was conducted without inflicting unnecessary hardship upon the general population.
Even those who joined the army after more preparation often had business that called them home, in which case they considered it a hardship to be denied.
Yet the question of taxation, a matter of merely theoretical submission, which produced no hardship and would not impoverish the country, was the main cause of trouble.
Its operation was automatic; there was no hardship in its provisions; of course the colonists would yield.
The towns sent generous supplies of wood to the camp, rations were provided in plenty, and the only period of hardship which the Americans endured was safely passed before the winter set in.
Only the emancipated country-boy, who is as agile on his bare feet as a young kid, and rejoices in the pressure of the warm soft earth, knows what a hardship it is to tie on stiff shoes.
What a hardship the prickles in his fingers would be!
Besides the hardship sustained by so many persons turned loose upon society for whose occupations they were unfit, the indiscriminate destruction of convents produced several public mischiefs.
Such loans were but an anticipation of her regular revenue, and no great hardship on rich merchants; who, if they got no interest for their money, were recompensed with knighthoods and gracious words.
But we are in danger still, and a little hardship is better than the grave risk of life.
The balance of power between the patricians and the plebeians was very narrow, especially when hardship aroused the latter to make inquiry into the claims of the former.
For twenty years she had done somewhat to relieve the hardship of her daughter-in-law Julia's exile; but she never sought to have her recalled.
The time had not yet come when he was liable to be torn from wife and children, to die of hardship in the cotton-fields and rice-swamps of the far South.
There the blockade of the harbour had wrought great hardship for the poorer people.
This long, dreary and, for heavy and continuous rains and high water, unprecedented winter was one of great hardship to all engaged about Vicksburg.
She well knew the astounding significance of the words, but the daily round of hardship and adventure were molding her character on new and stronger lines.
Maseden had little or no experience of the sea and its vagaries, or he would have noticed this highly significant fact, and thus saved himself and his companions much hardship and a good deal of needless risk.
It is no greater hardship for me, surely, than for the other poor girls who do it.
She quitted a comfortable home, sacrificed a fortune, a brilliant career, to endure hunger, cold, and hardship with me.
Or, again, a little hardship and real work would have quickly brought him back from South America.
I begin to fear my health will not resist the hardship of a long continuance here.
It was with the greatest hardshipthat the road was completed between the Luenda and Lulu rivers, so thick were the boulders and so hard the material which composed them.
It is a great hardship for them to give, without a consideration.
In the midst of hardshipwhich threatened to break his expedition up at this point, he was rejoiced to witness the arrival of a relief expedition from below, other boats, plenty of provisions and a corps of workmen.
Even hope had nothing to rest upon save the dreamy thought that he, whom hardship and danger had so often assailed in vain, would again come out victorious.
My men are all to labour trained, But hardship thou hast ne’er sustained.
There is no inconvenience so great, no private hardship so imperative, as to justify the application of a different rule to the resolution of a case, than the existing state of the law will warrant.
I hope it will not be too dreadful a hardship for you to make yourself a dress or two.
I looked with misgiving toward the south-west and thought of the six hundred miles of hardship before us--ay, if it were no worse than hardship.
There was something heroic about this gently-bred woman enduring our terrible hardship and with her pittance of strength bending to the tasks of a peasant woman.
On the other hand, there is no hardshipworked on the invalid.
One can guess the wearyhardship of that footsore journeying.
But she could not comprehend the acceptance of unkindness and injustice and ingratitude and endless toil and hardship with actual hilarity, as Kitty Mills accepted all of these things, day in and day out, year after year.
On April 27 they started for the scene of conflict, and for many days endured muchhardship of hunger and rough marching.
Hardship and daily discomfort in all the arrangements of life counted for something, and especially so the bad food, greasy, unwholesome, horribly cooked, enough to afflict an ostrich with the blue devils of dyspepsia.
Higbie and I cleared out on a new mining excitement the next morning, glad to get away from the scene of our sufferings, and after a month or two of hardship and disappointment, returned to Esmeralda once more.
She was, and is, an estimable woman--a woman to whom poverty and hardship have proven incentives to industry, in place of discouragements.
It is easy to scribble local rubbish, with the facts all before you; it is easy to clip selections from other papers; it is easy to string out a correspondence from any locality; but it is unspeakable hardship to write editorials.
I took rather a savage comfort in this, as one likes to bite hard on an aching tooth; for I had a profound friendship for this poor black boy, and to put a hardship upon him was to suffer myself even more than he did.
I happen to remember that it was a season of cruel hardship to many of our neighbors.
