Victorian
Example Sentences
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The classic "white Christmas" idea is thought to originally come from the Victorian era when snowy winter days were much more frequent than today.
From BBC
"There has been an awful lot of thought and time that has gone into this and the whole idea is to extract the maximum possible capacity from Britain's Victorian rail network without jeopardising reliability."
From BBC
Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times
The steam mooring lighter with Victorian equipment and early diving gear is believed to have been lost in 1903 while travelling from Portsmouth to Portland.
From BBC
The heyday of Britain’s Victorian empire spawned many larger-than-life personalities, but few of them rivaled Col.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
