Sample Sentences forvicissitudes (auto-selected)
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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)
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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)
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For during the violence of the gale, he had only steered according to its vicissitudes.† (source)
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Not long after this, Jurgis, wearying of the risks and vicissitudes of miscellaneous crime, was moved to give up the career for that of a politician.† (source)
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So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.† (source)
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He was soon in trouble again, and, over the years, experienced many vicissitudes.† (source)
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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)
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Certainly not with the vicissitudes of human beings.† (source)
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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)
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"Life is full of vicissitudes," I replied.† (source)
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For upwards of twenty years before this epoch, the independent position of the Collector had kept the Salem Custom-House out of the whirlpool of political vicissitude, which makes the tenure of office generally so fragile.† (source)
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The contrary is shown in the vicissitudes and fate of the republic.† (source)
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Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.† (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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In the very heart of the city, Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute obscurity.† (source)
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