Both Uses of
vicissitudes
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- CHAPTER XXV THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- He had not minded the peculiarities of his birth, the vicissitudes of his life, the meteor-like uncertainty of all that related to him, because these appertained to the hero of his story, without whom there would have been no story at all for him; and it seemed to be only in the nature of things that matters would right themselves at some proper date and wind up well.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(vicissitudes) changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties