vicissitudes

• For the character he revealed in those books of his which are essentially autobiographic, is the character dear to the American heart; and the experiences, vicissitudes, and hardships, shot through and irradiated with a high boisterousness of humour, found a joyous sympathy in the minds and hearts of men who had all “been there” themselves. —  Mark Twain
• Not content to simply blame his old girlfriends for his vicissitudes, John contemplates the root cause of all his problems. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
• After various vicissitudes, and having been for eight weeks confined in a dungeon in hourly expectation of death, he was at length ordered with other prisoners of war to the depot at Verdun. —  The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I
• They had heard of his vicissitudes, had almost given him up for dead; but at last he was with them again, and the dismal past was buried. —  Old Put The Patriot
• On life and its vicissitudes, and its sometimes unexpected evolution. —  This is a work of fiction

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