Victorian
Example Sentences
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The heyday of Britain’s Victorian empire spawned many larger-than-life personalities, but few of them rivaled Col.
The Victorians sparked the modern obsession with engineering “lots of different looking dogs to fit different human wants,” said Dr. Rowena Packer, senior lecturer at the University of London’s Royal Veterinary College.
It's smaller than the prisons I've previously visited - the Victorian men's prisons house hundreds more inmates.
From BBC
Her work for the front, Main Street areas of the park is shown, and it’s Victorian, regal and just ever-so-slightly fanciful.
From Los Angeles Times
"It was not elaborate like Victorian Gothic design that preceded it, and came with a classicism and simplicity that has survived the test of time," he said.
From BBC
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