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Meanings of vicissitude in English

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Usage of vicissitude in English
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Three years of strange vicissitude rolled over the career of our heroines.
Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
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There were many good people staggered by that stern and afflictive vicissitude.
Summerfield / or, Life on a Farm
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I had abundant material for philosophical reflections on the vicissitude of human affairs.
The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise
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Every grief hath that opportunity of cure; every joy that peril of vicissitude.
St. Cuthbert's
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The supercilious girl acted with vicissitude when the perennial time came.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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His behaviour at supper was a vicissitude of startings and reveries.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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He had an appropriate attitude for every vicissitude of his life.
The Inheritors
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What dark treasure-houses of vicissitude and woe are our memories become!
Zanoni
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The difference of day and night is the only vicissitude.
Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Work...
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But earth would be heaven too soon if all evil and vicissitude were ended.
Summerfield / or, Life on a Farm
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Arsène Lupin was present at certain family conferences when this new vicissitude was discussed.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
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The fate of the senate suggests an awful lesson of the vicissitude of human affairs.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
The Scarlet Letter
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Time, the continual vicissitude of circumstances, and the invariable inopportunity of death, render it impossible.
The House of the Seven Gables
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And this vicissitude is called time by Augustine, who says (Gen. ad lit.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
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Thus ended a life full of adventure and vicissitude.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
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