vicissitudes

• “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).”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4

• “I would build big positions in companies I loved and own them over time regardless of the short-term vicissitudes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Jim Cramer's Real Money

• “In the centre is a family and its vicissitudes from the end of the”

  Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Press Release

• “The feature that stands out in this long life of suffering, of martyrdom in her early years and always of convulsion [Page 296] and vicissitudes, is perfect truth, perfect simplicity, and, it may be said, entire and unalterable consistency.”

  The Ruin of a Princess

• “England passed through certain vicissitudes, until in the sixteenth century she began a career of expansion.”

  The True Inwardness of the Yellow Peril

• “When he had seen those stalwart beasts in their distant pastures and watched as they moved slowly toward him, white faces shining against red coats, he felt a knife-thrust of pain as he recalled the vicissitudes he and his family had brought upon this noble breed.”

  Centennial

• “In the decoration of the entablature of the colonnade, the skull of the ox repeated between the garlands recalls the vicissitudes of the pioneers in their long march across the continent.”

  The Jewel City

• “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.”

  Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race

• “As you can see from the audience here (eg "vicissitudes", you can not fool them because they are well read and informed).”

  Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.

• “But the "vicissitudes" were brutal, and Albee, who was friends with Nevelson, is still tough on her.”

  Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Occupant, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy

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