Vize

Richard Vize is contributing editor of the Guardian local government network.

Editor's blog: Trying to figure out the funding 2011

Connor used to be at the top of his game, getting all the choicest Guild jobs, but a run-in with a mystical terrorist (Bergen Vize) at a nuclear power plant left him with a shadowy "mass" in his brain that blocks his powers.

Unquiet Dreams Jes Battis 2008

Armed with survey equipment and hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, a survey team from the University of Newcastle has spent the last four years tracing a route of collapsed water channels and ruined bridges that snakes some 150 miles from the western Turkish city of Vize to Istanbul.

Lifeline to Byzantium 2003

The Vize Admiral knew by instinct as well as reason that this might be the decisive naval encounter as far as Sealion was concerned.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

First there had been Vize Admiral Lutjens 'signal for a report on the previous night.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

[4] An ancient countryman may occasionally be met with who will direct the pedestrian to "the 'Vize."

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

He must promise 'not to brag in Bookebinders shops that your Vize-royes or Tributorie Kings have done homage to you, or paide Quarterage.'

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

The Lieutenant generall in like sort commaunded Captaine Goring and Lieutenant Tucker, with one hundred shot to make a stand in the market place, vntill our forces were wholly imbarked, the Vize-Admiral making stay vvith his Pinnace and certaine boats in the harbour, to bring the said last companie aboord the ships.

Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges

Every morning the stretcher-bearers brought Vize-Feldwebel Spat down to the dressing ward, and his appearance always introduced a certain chill in the atmosphere.

The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel 1925

One morning accordingly, I was finishing Vize-Feldwebel Spat's dressing, and whistling something at random.

The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel 1925