Chapter VALOUR to VEXED of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

VEIL.—The veil
Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times
To hide the feeling heart.

Akenside.—King pleasures of Imagination, Book II. Line 147.

VEIN.—Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 2. (Richard to Buckingham.)

VENISON.—Thanks, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter
Ne’er ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter.

Goldsmith.—Haunch of Venison, Line 1.

VENTURED.—I have ventur’d,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me,
Weary, and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey’s Farewell to all his greatness.)

VERGE.—Give ample room and verge enough.

Gay.—The Bard, Verse IV. Line 3.

VERMIN.—Where mice with music charm, and vermin crawl,
And snails with silver traces deck the wall.

Walcot.

VEXED.—As mad as the vex’d sea.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act IV. Scene 4. (Cordelia.)

If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
Threat’ning the welkin with his big-swoll’n face?
And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?
I am the sea.

Shakespeare.—Titus Andron. Act III. Scene 1. (Titus to Marcus.)

VEXED.—The still vex’d Bermoothes.

Shakespeare.—The Tempest, Act I. Scene 2. (Ariel to Prospero.)