adversities

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The other brothers pondered their wives' angles and acerbities, secretly envied Ernest.

From Time Magazine Archive

What added to the acerbities of this preliminary war was, that the very nature of the contest required actions which showed not only unbecoming in a son, but mean and disgraceful in themselves.

From Heather and Snow by MacDonald, George

It is perhaps a shame to forestall the acerbities of these ingenious gentlemen, but we know they will call us "anonymous scribbler," and "bagman," amongst the rest.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

Amid his atmosphere of pettifoggery, this rudimentary scholar, waging battle on life's acerbities, certainly paid no attention to the insect; at most, if he met it, he would crush it under foot.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Then there were exchanged certain melodious acerbities, which proved that these ladies had entered the lists on previous occasions, and that each was well practised in the other's methods of warfare.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman