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Swabia -- but I never saw a man who, at the first vizzy, had the dour sour countenance of Archibald, Marquis of Argile and Lord of Lochow.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"I'll have a vizzy from an upper window of who this may be," said John, sticking a piece of pine in the fire till it flared at the end, and hurrying with it thus lighted up the stair.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Accordingly, putting on my hat about nine o'clock, or thereabouts, when the breakfast things were removing from the bit table, I poppit out, in the first and foremost instance, to take a vizzy of the depredation the flames had made in our neighbourhood.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

As all this was going on, I rose and took a vizzy between the chinks of the window-shutters; so, just as I got my neb to the hole, I saw Benjie, as he flew past, give the door a drive.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Accordingly, putting on my hat about nine o'clock, or thereabouts, when the breakfast things were removing from the bit table, I poppit out, in the first and foremost instance, to take a vizzy of the depredation the flames had made in our neighbourhood.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

As all this was going on, I rose and took a vizzy between the chinks of the window-shutters; so, just as I got my neb to the hole, I saw Benjie, as he flew past, give the door a drive.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

And if we, upon any former occasion, have spoken irreverently of the Nincompoops, we now beg leave to tender to that injured body our heartfelt contrition for the same; and invite them to join with us in a pastoral pilgrimage to Arcadia, where they shall have the run of the meadows, with a fair allowance of pipes and all things needful -- where they may rouse a satyr from every bush, scamper over the hills in pursuit of an Oread, or take a sly vizzy at a water-nymph arranging her tresses in the limpid fountains of the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various