"In spite of all the ravages and vicissitudes through which Moscow has passed in the thousand years of its existence," said a resident to us, "probably no city in the world is less changed from its earliest years."
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
They tell us how the area of the British Islands has experienced many vicissitudes of climate, sometimes rejoicing in a warm or almost tropical temperature, at other times visited with a climate as severe as is now experienced in arctic and antarctic regions.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Capital is not the result of saving, it is the result of Conjunctur; and so are the vicissitudes and crises that have so immensely increased in modern times.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae