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Hardship   /hˈɑrdʃɪp/   Listen
Hardship

noun
1.
A state of misfortune or affliction.  Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks.  "A life of hardship"
2.
Something hard to endure.  Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity.
3.
Something that causes or entails suffering.  "The many hardships of frontier life"






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"Hardship" Quotes from Famous Books



... and this noble lady here. An awfully difficult task again was that sojourn of thine,—the period of concealment,—which task also thou hast performed, O descendant of Bharata; for one pulled down from a throne it is nothing but hardship that awaits him. O king, where is there any happiness for him! O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king. O lord ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... the glorious sun, darting his golden javelins high up into the blue majestical canopy; and cheerily into the water, now burnished by the sunbeams, sprang Alfred Redsull, danger and hardship all forgotten, with a line round his waist, to guide and help the exhausted man away from the deadly 'fox-falls,' which were full of swirling water, and at last into the lifeboat. Then with bated breath they learned the story,—that all the rest were gone, and that the captain ...
— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor

... the food," answered the girl quickly. "I was thinking of the toil, the hardship—the Homeric labours of those who face the ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns

... to fit him for any emergency. He had the same control over himself that he had over others. His patriotism and singleness of purpose inspired devotion. He felt his burdens, but did not seek to throw them off. "Hardship and sorrow," said he, "not a king but would wish to be without these if he could; but I know he cannot." "So long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily." "I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VIII • John Lord

... iron will asserted itself, and appealing to his great strength, surged until the rawhide ropes were buried in his flesh. Not for a moment while he stood on his feet and fought them on the morning of that day had hope entirely deserted him. Four years of hardship, of privation, and adventure had so strengthened his courage that to give up ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman


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