Chapter Vehmique Tribunal to Venison of V by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Vengeur (Le). (See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 1269.)

Venice (The Stones of), by Ruskin (1851).

Venice Glass. The drinking-glasses of the Middle Ages made of Venice glass were said to possess the peculiar property of breaking into shivers if poison were put into them.

‘Tis said that our Venetian crystal has
Such pure antipathy to poison, as
To burst, if aught of venom touches it.
   —Byron: The Two Foscari, v. 1 (1820).

Venice Preserved, a tragedy by T. Otway (1682). A conspiracy was formed by Renault a Frenchman, Elliot an Englishman, Bedamar, Pierre, and others, to murder the Venetian senate. Jaffier was induced by his friend Pierre to join the conspirators, and gave his wife as hostage of his good faith. As Renault most grossly insulted the lady, Jaffier took her away, when she persuaded her husband to reveal the plot to her father Priuli, under the promise of a general amnesty. The senate violated the promise made by Priuli, and commanded all the conspirators except Jaffier to be broken on the wheel. Jaffier, to save his friend Pierre from the torture, stabbed him, and then himself. Belvidera went mad and died.

Venice of the East, Bangkok, capital of Burmah.

Venice of the North, Stockholm (Sweden). Sometimes Amsterdam is so called, from its numerous water- courses and the opulence of its citizens. It has 290 bridges.

They went to the city of Amsterdam, the Venice of the North.—The Dragonades, i.

Venice of the West, Glasgow.

Another element in the blazon of the Venice of the West is a fish laid across the stem of the tree.—Burton.

(See Fish And The Ring, p. 370.)

Venison (The Haunch of), a poetical epistle to lord Clare, by Goldsmith (1765).