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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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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Certainly not with the vicissitudes of human beings.† (source)
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"Life is full of vicissitudes," I replied.† (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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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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The English poet said it best: There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.† (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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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)
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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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Hopelessly unfunny, though straining for laughs on every page, these illiterate daydreams are an attempt to romanticize what must be a ghastly existence, the author eagerly equating the comic vicissitudes of her domestic life with those in the household of a brain surgeon.† (source)
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Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.† (source)
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He was tough as an antique ivory figurine which has withstood the vicissitudes of centuries, and can accept more.† (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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