Miss Isabella Vere, the laird’s daughter. She marries young Patrick Earnscliffe, laird of Earnscliffe.--Sir W. Scott, The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).
Vere (Sir Arthur de), son of the earl of Oxford. He first appears under the assumed name of Arthur Philipson.--Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).
Verges (2 syl.), an old-fashioned constable and night-watch, noted for his blundering simplicity.--Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing (1600).
Vergob´retus, a dictator, selected by the druids, and possessed of unlimited power, both in war and state, during times of great danger.
This temporary king or vergobretus, laid down his office at the end of the war.--Dissertation on the Era of Ossian.
Verinder (Rachel), pretty, strong-willed, imperious, warm-hearted young Englishwoman, the legatee of a diamond of immense value. She receives it upon her twenty-first birthday, wears it all the evening and insists upon keeping it in her room that night. She sees from the adjoining apartment, her lover, Franklin Blake, purloin the gem, and hides the name of the thief, while discarding him.--Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone.
Verisopht (Lord Frederick), weak and silly, but far less vicious than his bear-leader, Sir Mulberry Hawk. He drawled in his speech, and was altogether “very soft.” Ralph Nickleby introduced his niece, Kate, to the young nobleman at a bachelor’s dinner-party, hoping to make of the introduction a profitable investment, but Kate was far too modest and virtuous to aid him in his scheme.--C. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby (1838).
Vernon (Diana), niece of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone. She has great beauty, sparkling talents, an excellent disposition, high birth, and is an enthusiastic adherent of an exiled king. Diana Vernon marries Frank Osbaldistone.
Sir Frederick Vernon, father of Diana, a political intriguer called “his excellency the earl of Beauchamp.” He first appears as Father Vaughan [Vawn].--Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy (time, George I.).
Vernon (Elinor), “a student, enthusiastic and devoted, and one of rare attainments, both in character and degree.” She becomes an author of note. Her betrothed, Walter Mayward, would wean her from devotion to letters, and loses her thereby. Frederic St. Clair appreciates the glory of her perfected womanhood, loves and marries her, and her “poetry finds in his love its triumph, its crowning, its glorious apotheosis.”--Grace Greenwood, Heart Histories (1850).