Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. From LearnThat.org. [Cicero (106-43 BC).]
Noun : They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years. From Dictionary.com.
Mrs. Bell comments that the term vicissitudes does not occur in the text (and, I daresay, courtship and marriage do not occur as chapter headings, either). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4] Reference
In the centre is a family and its vicissitudes from the end of the. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Press Release] Reference
England passed through certain vicissitudes, until in the sixteenth century she began a career of expansion. From Wordnik.com. [The True Inwardness of the Yellow Peril] Reference
This is one of those 'vicissitudes' of life that Professor. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
You're writing about Texas and using the word "vicissitudes" ?. From Wordnik.com. [HH 532] Reference
This was just another of those miserable "vicissitudes" that no one could foresee. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
But the "vicissitudes" were brutal, and Albee, who was friends with Nevelson, is still tough on her. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Occupant, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy] Reference
As you can see from the audience here (eg "vicissitudes", you can not fool them because they are well read and informed). From Wordnik.com. [Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.] Reference
Be sure to include "vicissitudes" at 10: 19 last night, who made what I looks like the most blatant call for a candidate to be shot. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race] Reference
By this time next week we'll know something about the 'vicissitudes' of a sailor's life or my name is not Madge Morton. ". From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid] Reference
The vicissitudes of business can also play a role. From Wordnik.com. [Some Chiefs Stay Close to Alma Maters] Reference
"In a life liable to such vicissitudes," he continued softly. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
But she could not help reflecting upon the vicissitudes of life. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The end of several vicissitudes is, that young Rousseau gets back to. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The manuscripts of Aristotle's works passed through many vicissitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
After further vicissitudes of a varied character it was bought by the South. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
After many vicissitudes, this project received the approval of the common council. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
The reputation of Alfred de Vigny has endured extraordinary vicissitudes in France. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
After various vicissitudes, I was safely deposited at the head-quarters of the First. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
As our relationship lengthened and deepened, we weathered the vicissitudes of the skies. From Wordnik.com. [A River Runs Through Me] Reference
George Tenet's stormy tenure serves as a case study in the vicissitudes of intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [INTELLIGENCE: WITH SPIES LIKE THESE...] Reference
From a wedding to a funeral, from a merrymaking to a massacre, were frequent vicissitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
At last, after various vicissitudes of occupation, he settled down as curate of Meudon, where. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
This is a subject that Al Gore — who knows a lot about the vicissitudes of fortune — understands well. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Power] Reference
Since which time, I have experienced nearly all of the vicissitudes of the State to the present time (1913). From Wordnik.com. [California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state] Reference
Full details of the vicissitudes connected with this ship will be given in the chapter devoted to Rigid Airships. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
No. 9 experienced numerous vicissitudes, during the process of design and later when construction was in progress. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
In the engagement which ensued, his adventures afford an illustration of the singular vicissitudes of Eastern warfare. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
In his books The Castle and The Trial he takes ordinary human beings and subjects them to the vicissitudes of blind fortune. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Killing Off a Simple Jewish Soul in 'A Serious Man'] Reference
Mr. Greene said he was simply trying to protect his companies, and the jobs they created, from the vicissitudes of the market. From Wordnik.com. [Primary Races Pit Veterans Against Newcomers] Reference
The constant earthquakes, as well as the many vicissitudes of war it has passed through, has destroyed all other relics of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Hagar, who has been in this woful world many years -- years full of vicissitudes and sharp life-lessons -- is my counsellor and adviser. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
She was of course very sorry for her friends in trouble, but the vicissitudes that had happened to her theatricals she had more at heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When it comes to the human experience of coping with the vicissitudes of long spaceflights, Mir puts the Russians at the head of the class. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy Of Mir: Falling Star] Reference
With one impulse we kneeled down and returned thanks to Him Who had preserved us through all the strange vicissitudes of the last few days. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
It's something others have lost earlier and what we all fear losing: our sense of safety, No one is really safe from the vicissitudes of life, but we sometimes think we are. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Fence Me In] Reference
Second Life has become something else, too -- the Net's fastest-growing virtual world, with a robust marketplace whose dynamics mimic the vicissitudes of a real national economy. From Wordnik.com. [The Net: How Much for a Jetpack?] Reference
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