Vicissitudes
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Examples
- The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Why in the face of hundreds of philosophies wrecked on the rocks of the unexpected do men continue to believe that the intellect can transcend the vicissitudes of experience? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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