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Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting. (source)vicissitudes = unanticipated difficulties
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On the nearer end of the valley, half of a dead tree, eroded by the vicissitudes of many years, took up one-third of the picture.† (source)vicissitudes = changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
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The vicissitudes of her life had caused her to keep her feelings for others in check: It was dangerous to care for people; inevitably, you got hurt.† (source)
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Certainly not with the vicissitudes of human beings.† (source)
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The English poet said it best: There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.† (source)
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He was soon in trouble again, and, over the years, experienced many vicissitudes.† (source)
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Intimidated as he was by Colonel Cathcart, he nevertheless found it easier to brave his displeasure than to decline the thoughtful invitation of his two new friends, whom he had met on one of his hospital visits just a few weeks before and who had worked so effectively to insulate him against the myriad social vicissitudes involved in his official duty to live on closest terms of familiarity with more than nine hundred unfamiliar officers and enlisted men who thought him an odd duck.† (source)vicissitudes = changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
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As to his enforced enlistment, that he seemed to take pretty much as he was wont to take any vicissitude of weather.† (source)vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
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I knew of no other woman Iranian, American, or otherwise who risked the vicissitudes of regular excursions into Tehran without the protection of a man or at least another adult woman companion.† (source)vicissitudes = changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
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So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.† (source)vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
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It has frozen the ink in my pen, and chilled the blood in my veins, but not the warmth of my affection for him for whom my heart beats with unabated ardor through all the changes and vicissitudes of life, in the still calm of Peacefield, and the turbulent scenes in which he is about to engage.† (source)vicissitudes = changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
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Of such vicissitude in heaven I thought, As the great sign, that marshaleth the world And the world's leaders, in the blessed beak Was silent; for that all those living lights, Waxing in splendour, burst forth into songs, Such as from memory glide and fall away.† (source)vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
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The contrary is shown in the vicissitudes and fate of the republic.† (source)vicissitudes = changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
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Silence ensued, Through the blest quire, by Him, who here appoints Vicissitude of ministry, enjoin'd; When thus I heard: "Wonder not, if my hue Be chang'd; for, while I speak, these shalt thou see All in like manner change with me.† (source)Vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
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"Life is full of vicissitudes," I replied.† (source)vicissitudes = changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
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Jude had quite unexpectedly found good employment at his old trade almost directly he arrived, the summer weather suiting his fragile constitution; and outwardly his days went on with that monotonous uniformity which is in itself so grateful after vicissitude.† (source)vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
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