Here is, at least, an avian "Volapuk," a universal language understanded by the freemasonry of mutual self-preservation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

"Teacher of Volapuk is the profession of the future.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Her other passion in life is her doctoral thesis on Volapuk, a lost language.    From Wordnik.com.  [A is for...] Reference

This code is not local, but has acquired an internationality which professors of Volapuk would be proud to claim for their language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

She meets Kit at a linguistics conference in Chicago and not only is he a British dreamboat, he's a Volapuk scholar who has basically already presented her dissertation topic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A is for...] Reference

In much the same way, no followers of the artificial languages such as Esperanto and Volapuk have yet succeeded in finding a substitute for the language that we speak every day, which also is not pre-fabricated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruno Leoni vs. Paul Romer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

She was highly educated and an accomplished linguist, so practically all the varieties of Volapuk were alike familiar to her, and she could make Jean, Ivan, Hans, Franz or Johnny equally at home in her presence; as, if she could not quite "hit it off" with him in one language, she could quickly shift to another and talk to him in the kind in which he could best express himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference

Volapuk-speaking world what We were whilst still We remained in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890] Reference

But the main idea held good; and since that time Volapuk, Bolak.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference

There is but one universal language: the ocular -- not Volapuk nor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints for Lovers] Reference

The universal language of humanity is neither Volapuk, nor Esperanto, nor Ido.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference

Ten years from now the whole movement will be as dead as Volapuk or Esperanto; as dead as all artificial languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie] Reference

Volapuk is a paradox, unless one has French or English or German or some other language that has grown up in a nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life]

Hence, Our first starting point will be a deep and almost awestruck regard for the destinies of the Volapuk-speaking race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890] Reference

Something has gone wrong with the telephone-wire between there and Staff headquarters, and I can't get anything through but Volapuk or Esperanto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

How in the world were they to communicate with one another so long as Volapuk had not conquered the world, and Esperanto was still in its infancy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The League of Nations and the First Assembly at Geneva] Reference

Musketeers that he wanted translated from French into American, which is the language we speak below, in preference to German, French, Volapuk, or English.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted Typewriter] Reference

Their cases, as they submit them, will be placed before such competent and skilful advisers as We are able to gather round Us from the best men and women in the Volapuk-speaking world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890] Reference

She had become so addicted to expressing herself by means of signs -- and of these she chose the loudest and most impressive -- that she could have given odds to the inventor of Volapuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Social Cancer] Reference

The most hideous convicts are chosen, and those most corresponding in outward appearance to the favourite devils of the hierarchy, under whose names they pass in the workshops, where they commonly communicate with each other in the language of Volapuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

Parisian literature of the by-ways has its own methods, and its purveyors are shrewd enough to know what will be tolerated and what enjoyed by their peculiar class of patrons; transcendental toxicology and an industry in idols worked by criminals intercommunicating by means of Volapuk may be left to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

I don’t think any Esperanto speaker would point fun at Volapuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Greek to you, Chinese to me] Reference

Langue Bleue, New Latin, Volapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Archbishop Whateley, Lady Welby’s work upon Significs and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

La Langue Bleue, New Latin, Volapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Archbishop Whateley, Lady Welby's work upon Significs and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

Volapuk, anything you like except verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Regained] Reference

Music will be the universal language, -- the Volapuk of spiritual being. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Teacups] Reference

Volapuk, unintelligible to the outsider.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses] Reference

The Volapuk of Mars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference