At the end of '57 he wrote his famous verse "Il secoletto VIL che cristianeggia"-"This VILe christianising century."
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
And can you deign to speak to such a VIL--" "Hush-let us walk.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 7."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
There was Lorna, my love and life, bound by her duty to that old VIL-nay, I mean to her good grandfather, who could now do little mischief, and therefore deserved all praise-Lorna bound, at any rate, by her womanly feelings, if not by sense of duty, to remain in the thick danger, with nobody to protect her, but everybody to covet her, for beauty and position.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore