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I could, perhaps, wring a somber, vicarious joy from the things that might have been.

Thus she can have a vicarious career by virtue of what she has put into her husband's.

It is vicarious suffering; for they do not know what is perplexing us.

There they met all the vicarious members of the Pullman Club—the wives.

It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.

I can't understand this passion for vicarious heroism, Johnny.

Nicky had sunk into his chair in his attitude of vicarious, shamefaced misery.

Explain the two-fold nature of this vicarious labor for the dead.

This vicarious situation did not tend to better his condition.

Is vicarious contrition at all more conceivable than vicarious retribution?