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virtue sufficient of
What answer will you make to prudence, who informs you that she is a virtue sufficient of herself both to teach you a good life and also to secure you a happy one?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

vice sin offence
== leahtor leahtor (e 1 ) m. vice, sin, offence, crime, fault , Æ, CP: reproach : disease, injury , Lcd .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

very solicitous of
I myself, who make a great conscience of lying, and am not very solicitous of giving credit and authority to what I say, yet find that in the arguments I have in hand, being heated with the opposition of another, or by the proper warmth of my own narration, I swell and puff up my subject by voice, motion, vigour, and force of words, and moreover, by extension and amplification, not without some prejudice to the naked truth; but I do it conditionally withal, that to the first who brings me to myself, and who asks me the plain and bare truth, I presently surrender my passion, and deliver the matter to him without exaggeration, without emphasis, or any painting of my own.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

very silly of
"I know it's very silly of me—and I'm very sorry, particularly as you like the thing so much.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

vacant stall of
These three distinguished noblemen were all of them anxious—a little fidgetty; but at the same time it was not even whispered that Lord Rambrooke or any other lord had received the post which Lord Marney had appropriated to himself; nor had Lord Killcroppy had a suspicious interview with the prime minister, which kept the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine quiet though not easy; while not a shadow of coming events had glanced over the vacant stall of Lord Ribbonville in St George’s Chapel, and this made Lord de Mowbray tranquil, though scarcely content.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

very sleepers on
The very sleepers on which the rails lay were a delightful path to travel by—just far enough apart to serve as the stepping-stones in a game of foaming torrents hastily organised by Bobbie.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

very sight of
The very sight of them spoiled, somewhat, the memory of his lost darling.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

verry Shallow opsd
[Clark, September 10, 1804] 10th September Monday a Cloudy morning Set out early under a Gentle Breeze from the S E. passed two Small Islands one on the L. S. & the other on the S. S. both in the first Course at 101/2 miles passed the lower pt. of Ceder Island Situated in a bend to the L. S. this Island is about 2 miles long Covered with red Ceder, the river is verry Shallow opsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Vienna some of
He died while Napoleon's guns were bombarding Vienna, some of the shot falling in his garden.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

vast Spherule of
Then I heard One faintest note and all was still—the vast Spherule of heaven was pecked at by a bird As it were to break the sky's shell, let the light Of morning flood the fragments scattered, stirred By breezes of the dawn with passing night.
— from Starved Rock by Edgar Lee Masters

very small one
“At this moment I have but one ambition, and a very small one.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

very softly once
Then the door opened very softly once more, and some one came in, and knelt down at his side, and was so quiet that she scarcely seemed to breathe.
— from The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood

victory some of
An exploit so sudden and unexpected produced a panic among the Peloponnesians; and having fallen out of order in the excitement of victory, some of them dropped their oars and stopped their way in order to let the main body come up—an unsafe thing to do considering how near they were to the enemy's prows; while others ran aground in the shallows, in their ignorance of the localities.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

very shores of
José-Maria Héredia came here in company with Taine; Ferdinand Fabre passed many months here in an isolated little house on the very shores of the lake; Albert Besnard, the painter, has recently built a studio here, {264} and a quaint and altogether charming villa; Paul Chabas, too, has resorted hither recently for the same purpose, and indeed scores have found out this accessible but tranquil little corner of Savoy.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

very seldom occurs
Now the word which is here employed for 'Lord' is one that very seldom occurs in the New Testament in reference to God; only some four or five times in all.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

vestas struck one
Gideon produced his vestas, struck one, and by its light recognised the tow head of Harker.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson


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