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Vis  (vs)
An island of western Croatia off the Dalmatian coast south-southwest of Split. It is a popular resort.
vis Latin [vɪs]
n pl vires [ˈvaɪriːz]
power, force, or strength
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When the bridges broke down, unarmed soldiers, people from Moscow and women with children who were with the French transport, all- carried on by vis inertiae- pressed forward into boats and into the ice-covered water and did not, surrender.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Athelstane, utterly confounded at an order which the manners and feelings of the times rendered so injuriously insulting, unwilling to obey, yet undetermined how to resist, opposed only the vis inerti
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
"Never fear, sir; you are not speaking to one who is altogether ignorant of the vis medicatrix," said he, with his usual superiority of expression, made rather pathetic by difficulty of breathing.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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