Meanings of much privation in English

He was anxious to discover how much privation he could suffer.

She had suffered too much privation to have become really happy before I left.

They had hard work before them, much privation, many struggles.

The Indian is generally very lazy, but can endure, when requisite, great fatigue and much privation.

Drennen had been through much privation and hardship before his discovery, severe bodily punishment and fatigue thereafter.

There will not be much privation needed, for one who has spent three thousand pounds in six months.

My life, indeed, since I had left the hospital had been one of many disappointments and much privation.

The horses living chiefly on pulpy vegetation had little stamina, and were incapable of enduring much privation or hardship.

He closed a life of much privation and suffering at Peterhead, on the 21st March 1848.

His expeditions were frequently long, and his men, hurrying forth without due preparation, not unfrequently suffered much privation from want of food.

In performing so very arduous a task, much privation and many obstacles occurred-forests ,swamps ,rivers ,lakes ,rockyridges-allhad to be passed.

With so much privation and such a scattering of peoples, who would question histories kept by the "official" purveyors of truth?