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vicissitude
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Definition:a change of circumstances, a swing in fortunes
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yet in their full terribleness, even to the bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the superstitious belief in them is, in some vicissitudes of their vocation, revived in the minds of the hunters.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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All around the water was changing from wonderful greys and dark blues to still more wonderful pinks and translucent unearthly greens; the magic kaleidoscope of dawn was going forward in its accustomed way, regardless of the vicissitudes of mortals.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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