In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river is a much rarer object in the East than in the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Polish performs the office frequently assigned to h in English, viz., that of softening the preceding consonant without possessing any further power of its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference

Shelley "-- viz.," his simultaneous perception of Power and Love in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning] Reference

There was "viz.," for instance, instead of "that is," in the last sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference

It only remained, therefore, for the frigate to commence what is proverbially "a long chase," viz. "a stern chase.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference

Byron, which have never before appeared in print; "viz." I speak not -- I trace not, "etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference

Even then, though these seven seals be opened, there are still certain things which even John himself has to "seal up," viz., "the things which the seven thunders uttered" (x.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Revelation] Reference

Boyd is now my legitimate successor in Louisiana, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Mississippi, and that he had in hand three full corps, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

California now stands, viz., near the intersection of Sansome and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Western armies had been grouped into five corps d'armee, viz.: the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

McPherson has no cavalry, but I have taken one of Thomas's divisions, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The army still remained where the news of success had first found us, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

This actually mortified, and resulted in his death about a month after, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

We have been touched by a hand and kissed by a wind viz. everything is erased.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mess] Reference

On the 20th of May, General Grant called the three corps commanders together, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

I think General Halleck would like to have the honest, candid opinions of all of us, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

River, he will in a measure solve the most difficult part of my problem, viz., "provisions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Nevertheless, from the very beginning the town began to be built on the very river-bank, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Of course I was all ready, and others of our set were going home by the same conveyance, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

From all that I can learn, my troops reached Alexandria, Louisiana, at the time agreed on, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

I have seen all my army, corps, and division commanders, and have signified only to the former, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

He accordingly selected four priests of his community, who were gentlemen of merit and distinction, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

Higher leverage means greater returns when you have a good idea and the climate is forgiving (viz. 2002-06).    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the 'BSD'] Reference

And many of the other best time wasters are embedded in conglomerates that make them far from pure plays, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Money] Reference

The aim of all his enterprises and hopes of the future centered in one grand idea, viz., the propagation of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

At all events, after the seizure of the arsenal, and before the passage of the ordinance of secession, viz., on the 18th of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Telling General Fremont that I had been summoned to Louisville and that I should leave in the first train, viz., at 3 p.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize" -- viz., reenlist for the rest of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

They are divisible into various classes, which may legitimately be mentioned under two heads, viz., unconscious liars and conscious liars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

We imagine that there is only one means by which it may be always described, viz., that it consists in an entire avoidance of all that is natural and rational.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference