=Unity.=

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
1981
MARIA WHITE LOWELL:  Ingomar the Barbarian, Act ii.

=Unkindness.=

This was the most unkindest cut of all. 1982 SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Use.=

These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
1983
SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act ii., Sc. 2.

==V.==

=Vacuity.=

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 1984 DRYDEN:  Cym. and Iph., Line 84.

=Valentine.=

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day;
But by their flight I never can divine
When I shall couple with my Valentine.
1985
HERRICK:  Aph.  To His Valentine.

=Valor.=

Fear to do base unworthy things is valor;
If they be done to us, to suffer them,
Is valor too.
1986
BEN JONSON:  New Inn, Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Vanity.=

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
1987
SHAKS.:  Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1.

What dotage will not Vanity maintain? 
What web too weak to catch a modern brain?
1988
COWPER:  Expostulation, Line 630.

=Vapor.=

A wing vapor melting in a tear.
1989
POPE:  Odyssey, Bk. xix., Line 143.

=Variety.=

Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavor.
1990
COWPER:  Task, Bk. ii., Line 606.

=Vault.=

Heaven’s ebon vault
Studded with stars unutterably bright.
1991
SHELLEY:  Queen Mab.

=Vengeance.=

In high vengeance there is noble scorn. 1992 GEORGE ELIOT:  Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iv.

=Venice.=

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand.
1993
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto iv., St. 1.

In Venice, Tasso’s echoes are no more,
And silent rows the songless gondolier.
1994
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto iv., St. 3.

=Venus.=

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. 1995 POPE:  Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, Line 369.

=Verse.=

Whoe’er offends at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
1996
POPE:  Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings. 1997 RICHARD GIFFORD:  Contemplation.

=Vice.=

There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
1998
SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. 1999 MILTON:  Comus, Line 760.