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privation
1. The Qaida creed is appealing to those dealing with extreme privation
2. More polar opposites can scarcely be imagined than the mortal privation and terror of Talstan and the fleshpits of Satan's world
3. Artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, can augment the revenue and wealth of their society by parsimony only ; or, as it is expressed in this system, by privation, that is, by depriving themselves of a part of the funds destined for their own subsistence
4. Nations, on the contrary, which, like Holland and Hamburgh, are composed chiefly of merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, can grow rich only through parsimony and privation
5. Through the blockade, and during the weary negotiations for peace, when anarchy reigned in Cuba, the residue of the reconcentrados and hundreds of the lower classes in the cities succumbed to privation
6. "Well, you see," he resumed nervously, "it was very absurd, but I did believe the girl's story--the old story, you know, of privation and
7. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
8. absolute privation or non-being …
9. The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life
10. To be fair, many ministers and their families, suddenly without church, manse and stipend in 1843 did suffer very considerable privation
11. So it was no privation to be paying the mortgage and everything else associated with the household
12. The fisherman ambled through the dunes for weeks, yet he never tired, thirsted, or opened his mouth to utter a syllable of grief or privation
13. “Or feeding, on a day of privation”
14. “Five years of our privation packed in one session,” said Paul exaggerating but only slightly
15. privation can drive one mad
16. These first monks and hermits led a life of privation and want, living in caves and barely existing for a life of prayer
17. It is late and not having a dessert just now is more a blessing than privation
18. unpolished shoes, starving, cowering dogs and a few horse drawn carriage with all three units, horse, vehicle and driver in an equal state of privation
19. If Germany had never been forced into starvation and privation by the winners of the 1st WW: she would never have become healthy enough to rebuild herself into a better and stronger Nation
20. privation can be associated with all kinds of chronic
21. The cutting off of a sinner from the opening prospect of an endless life may truly be called a punishment eternal—for its effects in privation run along the infinite duration of an eternity which, but for rebellion and unbelief, would have been the scene of an endless glory
22. Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the
23. Wonderful, because although they knew that they did more than their fair share of the great work of producing the necessaries and comforts of life, they did not think they were entitled to a fair share of the good things they helped to create! And despicable, because although they saw their children condemned to the same life of degradation, hard labour and privation, yet they refused to help to bring about a better state of affairs
24. done they did in silence, every man oppressed by the same terror - the dread of the impending want, the privation and unhappiness that they knew they and their families would have to suffer during the next few months
25. None of these black-garbed `disciples' were associating with the groups of unemployed carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, and painters who stood here and there in the carriage-way dressed in mean and shabby clothing and with faces pale with privation
26. As time went on the long-continued privation began to tell upon Owen and his family
27. Although privation reigned supreme in their desolate homes, where there was often neither food nor light nor fire, they were too `proud' to parade their misery before each other or the world
28. They saw their fathers and mothers, weaned and broken with privation and excessive labour, sinking unhonoured into the welcome oblivion of the grave
29. At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light
30. Still, the Schuelerite possessed both a powerful faith and enormous energy, and however much he might interfere in purely military decisions, he was also prepared to share any privation the troops under his care had to endure
31. His eyes darkened with the memory of how many of that flock had perished of cold and privation … and of how many had been so very young
32. Despite privation and hardships, despite food speculators and kindred scourges, despite death and sickness and suffering which had now left their mark on nearly every family, the South was again saying “One more victory and the war is over,” saying it with even more happy assurance than in the summer before
33. The people of the town were suffering hardship, privation, sickness and death as as a result of the war
34. His father returned a negative, and then for the first time it occurred to Angel that her pride had stood in her way, and that she had suffered privation
35. had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure
36. What was he to do? He saw even more keenly than Rosamond did the dreariness of taking her into the small house in Bride Street, where she would have scanty furniture around her and discontent within: a life of privation and life with Rosamond were two images which had become more and more irreconcilable ever since the threat of privation had
37. In burned and devastated Moscow Pierre experienced almost the extreme limits of privation a man can endure; but thanks to his physical strength and health, of which he had till then been unconscious, and thanks especially to the fact that the privations came so gradually that it was impossible to say when they began, he endured his position not only lightly but joyfully
38. And now without thinking about it he had found that peace and inner harmony only through the horror of death, through privation, and through what he recognized in Karataev
39. While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity
40. As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over
41. And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion
42. Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation
43. They sat without a fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the East room
44. On such a day—very much such a sweetness as this—I struck my first whale—a boy-harpooneer of eighteen! Forty—forty—forty years ago!—ago! Forty years of continual whaling! forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time! forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep! Aye and yes, Starbuck, out of those forty years I have not spent three ashore
45. With the true heroism of virtue she suffered every misery and privation
46. The glare would attract some poor creatures who had partly lost their wits through cold and privation
47. He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure
48. I ask you is such a man free? I knew one “champion of freedom” who told me himself that, when he was deprived of tobacco in prison, he was so wretched at the privation that he almost went and betrayed his cause for the sake of getting tobacco again! And such a man says, “I am fighting for the cause of humanity
49. In all these people he now involuntarily saw those same village folks whom privation had driven to the city
50. Each of these men would choose to endure any kind of privation, suffering, or danger, rather than consent to do a deed which he considered wrong
