The city therefore endured many privations in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries. Leaving behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Chinese Civil War. The cousins disdain all sensuality and live a puritanical life of chastity and privations. Their men were strikingly tough and capable of lasting terrible privations. A right to life free from the privations of poverty. They enjoin apostolical life with all its renouncements and privations. World War II saw continuing privations in the school. Months of hard labor and privations in the wilderness begins to show on the men. The privations of this voyage put Banwell in hospital for 12 weeks. This treatment, and the subsequent privations, spoil Mrs Drassilis' looks and her temper. Barefoot, Clemens shared the privations of his coastwatchers.