Victorian

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The California Military Academy spent a spectacular few of its early years, circa 1906, on the water at Santa Monica, leasing out the rambling Victorian pile that had once been the Arcadia Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Fraudsters that use promises of love and companionship to cheat the lonely is a crime as old as Victorian novels.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Yet his compulsion to embrace the world’s majesty in the manner of an illustrated weekly or a Victorian diorama conflicted with the project of capturing the poetry of untamed America.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Later, the King will meet firefighters involved in tackling the the huge fire which engulfed a B-listed Victorian building in the centre of Glasgow in March.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

The road they were in now, in her world, was quiet and tree-lined, with big Victorian houses in shrub-filled gardens.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman