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(Cornell studies in English, v 32) © 11May42 A164222.

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  1. noun The 22nd letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter v.
  3. noun The 22nd in a series.

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  • The total losses and damages experienced in Germanv as a result of Allied bombing attacks between 1914 and 1918 included 746 persons killed and 1,843 wounded, with damages estimated at 25,035,000 reichsmarks (RM). —  Flak - German Anti-aircraft Defenses 1914-1945
  • BrE verb práctíse = noun, AmE verb crévíce véngeance sometimes written as in French vígilance románce perfŏrmance noun = verb either stressed fînánce híndrance forbéarance enter éntrance beguile entrānce cf. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • It also reminds that a shortest path from u to v is the path with minimum weight of all paths from u to v, and that a shortest path in a graph might not exist if it contains a negative weight cycle. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Margaret inquired Cup o' v--v--v--v--v Can't you write it down?" —  The Starbucks
  • The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness The word rivers cannot be used with elision--the v is a hard pebble in the flow, and so are the closing consonants You must put up with streams if you keep the line You should have Bailey's dedicatory sonnet in Festus I am enclosing a fine sonnet by William Bell Scott, which I wished him to let me send you for your book. —  Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 

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vonlenska · victorian hair receiver · venetian veil · cleavage · verdigris · voluptuary · vade mecum · verisimilitude · vita · vim · verity

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