Victorian

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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

“This meticulously restored Victorian delivers the ultimate Hamptons lifestyle: a luxuriously appointed main residence, a lofted studio, and resort-like grounds with a heated gunite pool.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

They stay in a rambling Victorian house in the Garden District and record in a studio that’s haunted.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

It's a ceramic floor in an old Victorian kitchen in Chicago in February, and I'm sitting on an oak chair wearing a damp towel.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements