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verb in class c3
A verb in class c3 is isturya ‘talk to’.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

verb in class c4
Dúngug,3 (listed under dungug (←) ) ‘hear from’ is an example of a verb in class c4 .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

vanto intese cose che
Per quest'andata onde li dai tu vanto, intese cose che furon cagione di sua vittoria e del papale ammanto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

visits interchange cards call
visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Vocat ingenti clamore Cithœron
Vocat ingenti clamore Cithœron, Taygetique canes ... Virg.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Vocat ingenti Clamore Cithseron
Vocat ingenti Clamore Cithseron Taygetique canes, domitrixque Epidaurus equorum: Et vox assensu nemorum ingeminata remugit.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

vegetating in cheap continental
Lily and her mother wandered from place to place, now paying long visits to relations whose house-keeping Mrs. Bart criticized, and who deplored the fact that she let Lily breakfast in bed when the girl had no prospects before her, and now vegetating in cheap continental refuges, where Mrs. Bart held herself fiercely aloof from the frugal tea-tables of her companions in misfortune.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

voices in conversation coming
He then distinguished voices in conversation, coming from the forpart of the waggon.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

voices in cheerful conversation
Kit would have had a good fire roaring up the empty chimneys, lights sparkling and shining through the windows, people moving briskly to and fro, voices in cheerful conversation, something in unison with the new hopes that were astir.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

violet Image changed Colour
This also was observable, that if one of the Prisms at the Window, suppose that which cast the violet on the Paper, was [Pg 52] turned about its Axis to make all the Colours in this order, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, fall successively on the Paper from that Prism, the violet Image changed Colour accordingly, turning successively to indigo, blue, green, yellow and red, and in changing Colour came nearer and nearer to the red Image made by the other Prism, until when it was also red both Images became fully co-incident.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

VIADUCT IN CAPE COLONY
BLAAUW KRANTZ VIADUCT IN CAPE COLONY.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

vanilla ice cream chocolate
to vanilla ice cream, chocolate seems to be the most desired.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Vanilla ice cream Cakes
Cherry tart Coffee DINNER Potage Lamballe Radishes Bass, Dijonaise Roast chicken Fonds d'artichauts, Feypell Julienne potatoes Sliced tomatoes, French dressing Vanilla ice cream Cakes Coffee Bass, Dijonaise. Put four fillets of bass in a buttered pan, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with two finely-chopped shallots, add one-half cup of water, cover, and put in hot oven for fifteen minutes.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

valves in Charing Cross
Why, since the fortunate event of the 1st of August every one of these four points at this moment acknowledges British sway; and not only the sea between them, but every accessible corner, and the liquid part of the whole globe, from Nootka Sound to Bass’s Straits, is directed from half a dozen valves in Charing Cross.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

vary in character capacity
In every other respect they vary in character, capacity, intelligence and potentiality for development along any or all these lines, almost beyond the limits of computation.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

voyage is continued contrary
Whenever on the discharge of a seaman in a foreign country by a consular officer on his complaint that the voyage is continued contrary to agreement, or that the vessel is badly provisioned or unseaworthy, or against the officers for cruel treatment, it shall be the duty of the consul or consular agent to institute a proper inquiry into the matter, and, upon his being satisfied of the truth and justice of such complaint, he shall require the master to pay to such seaman one month's wages over and above the wages due at the time of discharge, and to provide him with adequate employment on board some other vessel, or provide him with a passage on board some other vessel bound to the port from which he was originally shipped, or to the most convenient port of entry in the United States, or to a port agreed to by the seaman.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

voice in Cardiff Castle
He was answered by silence: and he marched on and away, helped by no hand or voice in Cardiff Castle.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

vitia in contraria currunt
Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt X Media via nulla est quae nee amicos parit nee inimi- cos tollit Solons law that in states every man should declare him self of one faction.
— from Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies by Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir

victories inuincible Constantius Cesar
And so now by your victories (inuincible Constantius Cesar) whatsoeuer did lie vacant about Amiens, Beauois, Trois, and Langres, beginneth to florish with inhabitants of sundrie nations: yea and moreouer that your most obedient citie of Autun, for whose sake I haue a peculiar cause to reioise, by meanes of this triumphant victorie in Britaine, it hath receiued manie & diuerse Artificers foorth of Britaine.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison


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