affliction's

Given affliction's generous availability, and given the wide but so-far-unsatisfying range of apologia that the nagging enigma of our human suffering has provoked over the years, I thought I might press ahead for a more satisfying glimpse of why it is we suffer, and why it is that some of us -- even among the apparently innocent -- appear to suffer far more than others.

Scott Cairns: Death and Dying: Reflections on Suffering and Loss Scott Cairns 2010

"We are never rife with money," despite that affliction's appeal.

Making Every Word Count 2008

There are never-failing promises recorded there, "pointing to a Bible that lay on the bed," and thrice happy are they who can rely on them in affliction's hour.

A Book for the Young Sarah French

Oh! cease that mournful voice, affliction's child,

Poems (1828) Thomas Gent

Allusions to moonbeams and clouds do not emphasize the sense of my affliction: they carry my soul beyond affliction's narrow actuality.

The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924

Under cover of affliction's night and storm Anna, this whole Anna Callender, had been reinforced, had fortified and was a new problem.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

Wreaths, bound with victorious, 95. that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 482.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

Shower, affliction's heaviest, 482. earth loveth the, 756. sleet of arrowy, 384.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

Not for affliction's sake, or for the cross's sake, as if suffering were a good thing in itself.

Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife Charles Kingsley 1847