bufferings

But however frail by the standards of a real ship, a Comet was built to resist heavier bufferings.

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

To think he is able to overcome his fears, that his gracile body has been called upon to withstand the bufferings of storms, and that his notion of duty should appear to raise him, physically, to the level of these rough vikings among whom he labors, is quite bewildering.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

Now Lecolle is better; he feels better without much exuberance, with a seriousness which knows and foresees the bufferings of

The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel 1925

It offered a welcome harbourage after the many bufferings she had suffered upon storm - tossed seas.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

A change had come -- the change of the hothouse plant set out to the bufferings of the four winds of heaven to perish from weakness or gather strength from hardship.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

"Sweet are the uses of adversity," sang the great bard who is supposed to have known human nature in all its mutations; and humanity has echoed the aphorism until it has come to believe in some sort that bufferings are benedictions, and hard knocks merely the compacting blows that harden virtues, as the blacksmith's hammer beats a finer temper into the steel upon the anvil.

Branded Francis Lynde 1893

Across the open space they struggled, through the furious bufferings of the gale, sometimes on their feet, sometimes on their hands and knees, till they came to the great wall where a stairway ran up it to an outlook tower.

The Ghost Kings Henry Rider Haggard 1890

I had one of my secretaries hunt out the man she had loved -- a sad, stranded wreck of a man he had become; but since that day he has been sheltered at least from the worst of the bufferings to which his incapacity for life exposed him.

The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889

He flung aside his calabashes of water and ran down the steep, then across the great valley and beyond its rim he rushed, through the bufferings of the storm, with an agonized heart, down the hill slope to the shore.

Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 1887

These various timbers and fastenings, put together as best we could shape and join them, made a craft sufficiently strong and seaworthy to withstand all the bufferings on the main upon which, in due course, she was launched.

Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877