We can count on the vicissitude of the seasons throughout the year. From LearnThat.org.
And indeed this vicissitude of things is very pernicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Every grief hath that opportunity of cure; every joy that peril of vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Etruria, and kept her independence through every vicissitude until. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
But it is not constant; we are under a vicissitude of light and darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
But earth would be heaven too soon if all evil and vicissitude were ended. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Three years of strange vicissitude rolled over the career of our heroines. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
There were many good people staggered by that stern and afflictive vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Thus ended a life characterized by no ordinary share of vicissitude and misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
While I am recollecting, many, I question not, are experiencing the same tragical vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales] Reference
And by the invisible and unformed earth, I understand that which suffers no temporal vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Through a long life of vicissitude she lived blamelessly and usefully, and came to her end in peace. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference
The period was now approaching when Lord George Murray was to close a life of vicissitude and turmoil. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
I followed her like a duckling, learning how to glide smoothly upon the waters of writerly vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Jones: Truck Stop Book Tour] Reference
This is why the conscience must be alert so as to be ready to counter it everywhere and in every vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [HAVANA PROVINCE CDR RALLY] Reference
The following day varies the character of the range, exposed to every vicissitude of temperature and climate. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
With his crew he entered a land where an aspect of unbroken night checked the vicissitude of light and darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
He is smitten with the charms of a female adventurer, whose allurements subject him to a new vicissitude of fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom] Reference
This song is a birthday wish both for my son and for my country, each young and subject to the winds of vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
Frederick William III. reigned from 1797 to 1840, during which time Prussia experienced every vicissitude of fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
On regaining her saloon a new and terrible vicissitude seemed to sport with his passion -- she was nowhere to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850] Reference
On the other hand, show me a man with "royal locks," and I will trust his natural impulses in almost every vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
She voted against Chertoff before when he was nominated for the DHL job. vicissitude wrote on August 27, 2007 2: 35 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary On Gonzales: "His Loyalty Was To The President, Not The American People"] Reference
I am afraid not; for steamboats have carried vicissitude into Chelsea, and Belgravia threatens it with her mighty advent. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
The catastrophe of the last 7 years is ample evidence of that in the other direction. vicissitude wrote on January 11, 2008 10: 34 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Clyburn May Drop Neutral Stance To Punish Clintons] Reference
Union, and which, formed in the hour of peril, have hitherto been honorably sustained through every vicissitude in our national affairs. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Up mounted David, and bowled away merrily towards Boston, without so much as a parting glance at that fountain of dreamlike vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Thompson is the last among the great ones to have known the dire vicissitude, direst, if legends are true, that can befall a human being. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
"Please the pigs" (such extraordinary things do reform and vicissitude bring together!) supposes that his Protestant soul is propitiating the. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
He is a total stranger to that vicissitude of sunshine, rain, and tempest, which in a moment confounds all the labours of the English husbandmen. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
London back street to the tables of the rich and the titled, he had experienced every vicissitude between the antithetical extremes of joy and sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
To avoid similar inconvenience, he withdrew from mercantile pursuits, and invested his property in land and houses, as being less liable to vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Florence] Reference
George, the seventh Lord Seaton, attended on that unhappy Princess in some of the most brilliant scenes of her eventful life, and clung to her in every vicissitude of her fate. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
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