How To Use Victoria In A Sentence
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Rampant Victoriana tends to be a bit too fussy for me, but there were some lovely bits of jet and marcasite jewelry that called my name.
Runaway, Jersey-style
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Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
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At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
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Meanwhile, Angela Brockway and other members of the reading group are struggling to carry on without their friend: There were about 14 of us who all used to sit round her big Victorian table in her conservatory with mugs of tea and coffee and piles of what we called 'posh' biscuits.
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Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life.
Time Tripping
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In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed.
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This could still change because votes in one Victoria seat were being recounted.
Times, Sunday Times
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See the city's fine Victorian architecture, and visit its excellent museums.
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We have so many quaint old settler cottages as well as grand Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
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In the spirit of the colonial revival, they replaced the Victorian era mansard roof with a hip roof with dormers, removed the two-story service wing, replaced windows and doors, and restored or embellished interior woodwork.
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Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, in exultant recognition of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, embodied the spirit of that nostalgic period.
Responsible Nationhood
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Her journal is an important document of Victorian rural life.
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Victorian propriety is an important element of the story, the atmosphere to be upended over and over by slapstick action and sudden death.
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The fourth class (officers of the British Empire and Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order) and fifth class (members of the British Empire and Royal Victorian Order) wear their respective badges on medal ribands or bows (women).
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Travellers changing from train to bus at Southend Victoria rail station could soon have a better idea of when their bus will arrive.
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But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
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THE CHRISTMASES OF QUEEN VICTORIA have been kept with much bountifulness, but after the gracious manner of a Christian Queen who cares more for the welfare of her beloved subjects than for ostentatious display.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
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Last month the Victorian government announced that the number of sawlogs allowed to be pulled out of the State's forests will be cut by a third.
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A man had collapsed in Victoria Place in the town and was unconscious.
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This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
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The big detached houses a few streets inland on Victoria Road go for about a million.
Times, Sunday Times
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Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
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Utilitarianism in Victorian England was often misconstructed as essentially anti-art, indeed as the doctrine of cultural philistines.
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The foundation stone was laid by Mrs Brown on June 21, the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.
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This two bedroom duplex apartment has a private entrance hall and retains original Victorian features including high ceilings, decorative architraves and period fireplaces.
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In Australia, we know that there is activity at official or semi-official level in South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria at least.
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Although vigoro is mainly played in Tasmania, Queensland and New South Wales, Hendley said the origins of the game began in Victoria more than a century ago.
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Take all the Latin words in Shakespeare, for instance - in Victorian times, educated people had studied Latin in school - not so today, so they need to be carefully glossed.
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There's the chance you might also come across a statue of Queen Victoria, but you'll find few dedications to any other women.
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This year he trained the light scull world champion Victoria Dimitrova as well as Neikova.
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To the immediate south was a more handsome Victorian building constructed by architects John Lessels and John Patterson in 1873 to replace an earlier structure.
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Geographynote: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile
Burundi
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Currently studying Law at Melbourne University, she was dux of Girton Grammar School in Bendigo, received a Premiers Award, the Australia Award and received the highest VCE score in all of regional Victoria.
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Tantamque victoriam amentia hominum consequuti sunt, ut si colligere in unum velis, universum orbem istis scelestibus spiritibus subjectum fuisse invenies: Usque ad Salvaloris adventum hominum caede perniciosissimos daemones placabant, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Victoria's population had increased sevenfold from 76000 to 540000, 45 per cent of the Australian population of 1200000 in 1861.
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Sir Andrew describes the character as ‘one of the best villains in Victorian fiction’.
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Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land.
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He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste.
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According to the same source, the Bujagali dam at the outlet of Lake Victoria in Jinja, Uganda, is due to go ahead within the next few weeks with £66m of funding from the World Bank.
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Bram Stoker's original story focuses on the undead Count and his mortal rival, Dr.Van Helsing, who vie for the very souls of Lucy and Mina, the two young Victorian ladies the vampire would add to his harem of bloodthirsty brides.
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The Mallee is the closest thing Victoria has to the outback.
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He grew up on a grape and citrus farm at Robinvale, on the Murray River in north-west Victoria.
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The formal Victorian portrait gave way to the informal snapshot, and now to the intimacy of the phonecam and picture message.
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For more than 30 years, this quaint little Victorian-themed resort at the southern tip of New Jersey said no to ‘skintight, formfitting or bikini type’ bathing attire on males over the age of 12.
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The admission of the Brisbane Bears and the West Coast Eagles into the Victorial Football League was the most significant step in the stuttering progress towards a national competition.
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I imagine my façade as an old Victorian, right on the waterfront and overlooking the twilight with many, many rooms and a little garret in which I sit overlooking everything.
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Perhaps someday it will return to Victoria's inner harbour and enlighten the city with approbatory friendly fire in greedy pursuit of our oil, gas, and fresh water.
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Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church.
Greenwitch
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Outside the sun shone bright through the clouds, Anna fanned herself with her hand as she sat on the bed beside Victoria.
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It is described as a romance, set across the social divide in the world of Victorian industrial society.
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The grand entrance had been smeared with paint and graffiti while a unique Victorian glass lantern roof had been smashed letting water pour on to the decorative floors below.
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And "-- he held up a finger -- `a Victorian civilizing mission.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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The crossing should safely assist pedestrians to the Victoria Recreation Ground, as well as to a nearby scout hut and nursery.
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During the Victorian lesson, Ms Roberts had the pupils reciting prayers by rote and kept the classroom atmosphere strict and formal.
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At some point, Leaellynasaura, a Lower Cretaceous hypsilophodontid from Victoria, Australia, was described as a carnivore when it, like all hypsilophodontids, is actually an herbivore.
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A ride on the oldest funicular railway in Asia, to the Victoria Peak, commonly known as the Peak, was spectacular.
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This excellent record of his thoughtful and troubled career as architect, restorer, scholar, and writer throws much light on a neglected and turbulent period of Victorian architecture.
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He had been imprisoned after being reprieved from a death sentence handed down by General Victoriano Huerta, the usurper who would overthrow Francisco Madero in February 1913.
Pancho Villa as a German Agent...
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What likewise astonishes is how Victorian, prudish, and ultra-conservative in thought most of us really are despite the claim to modernity and non-traditionalism.
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Thousands of Victorian workers joined educational associations in an attempt to better themselves.
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He has a 600-acre beef farm near Benalla, in north-east Victoria.
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Soon after leaving the Blackheath, we descended from the sandstone platform by the pass of Mount Victoria.
Chapter XIX
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The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Dr. James Ogwang, a biocontrol entomologist with the Uganda National Agricultural Research Organization, and his colleagues, implemented a successful program that rid Lake Victoria of the weed.
Biocontrol of Invasive Water Hyacinth Contributes to Socioeconomic Improvement | Impact Lab
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On the contrary, it should be to rekindle and harness the ambition of the Victorians for a more tolerant and enlightened age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready.
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Police have positively identified the bulk of a mob of 274 cattle, allegedly stolen from properties and saleyards in Victoria and New South Wales.
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Tasmania were bowled out for 198, well short of the 313 they required for victory after Victoria declared at 3 for 181 in the morning.
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Amid the midsummer heat and the excitement in central London, as citizens celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the principal contenders were becoming clear.
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They poke and slap at one another, while Victoria jumps on Sabrina for a piggyback ride.
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It's a quiet residential backwater surrounded by old Victorian terraces.
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The Victorian Building Workers campaign for a shorter working week was also discussed at length.
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A number of oil sketches from nature in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, reveal his powers of lively observation.
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‘It has been varnished, which was a Victorian practice they thought would preserve valuables, but it now means we can't distinguish the varnish from the bone,’ he said.
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The silktail (Lamprolia victoriae) represents an endemic genus of monarch flycatcher and is restricted to the islands of Taveuni and Vanua Levu.
Fiji tropical moist forests
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Victorians drew little class distinction between the rowdy music-hall and 'serious' playgoing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was wrapped in snowman wrapping paper inside her old brown bag that she bought her bathing suit in last summer, stuffed with Victoria Secret’s pink and white tissue paper
Goldylockz22 Diary Entry
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The "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" of models strutting the lingerie firm's latest creations last year drew a 10 percent share of the televiewing audience.
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Guy Bourdin, the book, is the catalog of the first serious retrospective exhibition of the photographer's work curated by Charlotte Cotton for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus, a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.
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Last week the Victorian Supreme Court rejected a challenge to State legislation known as the Farm Dams Act.
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That harks back to Victorian days when most guests arrived by train and as they entered the hotel, the reception was the first place they saw.
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The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
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In England, porter, originally the beer favoured by porters at the market, became the health drink of the Victorians, often prescribed by doctors for convalescent ladies.
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Rare is the folk album that is comfortable referencing the Neighbours theme tune alongside obscure Victorian parlour music.
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This could still change because votes in one Victoria seat were being recounted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite this, none of the newer buses has been assigned to the route, so Victoria buses, slow and lumbering old cows, are often broken-down, causing even more frequent delays.
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It was Augusta who created the ranch house's Victorian elegance, adding her own fine needlepoint to the furnishings from Chicago, New York, and Europe.
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The Victorian building had been divided into four flats and, together with the neighbouring house, was being used as squats.
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The daughter of first-generation Portuguese immigrants, she grew up in the small town of Victoria, British Columbia.
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I needed to get up, not loll there like a Victorian heroine.
Raziel
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Victoria would be called shanties -- huts built of wood and canvas -- some of the larger of them being labelled "Saloon," "Eating-house,
A Boy's Voyage Round the World
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The first time we meet Victoria, she is wretching her guts into the toilet with her mother standing above her in dishabille, smoking a cigarette into her face while threatening to throw her out of the house.
Kent Haruf discusses Plainsong
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We wound our way back down the State of New South Wales through pretty towns like Cootamundra and Young cherry capital of Australia and ugly ones like Albury-Wodonga and then we were back in Victoria and we turned towards the high country and stopped in Bright and stayed there for three days.
What I cooked last night.
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This reminds us that Elgar was culturally a Victorian who flourished under the reign of Victoria's son.
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They had promised to turn the Victorian building into a ‘first quality hotel’ with a bar and restaurant, he said.
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Victorians sought to create respectable personal habits in societies where the vast majority of inhabitants can be described only as crude.
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Thousands of Victorian workers joined educational associations in an attempt to better themselves.
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She was a very fine commentator on the social condition of Victorian England.
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In the State of Victoria it is illegal to feed wild dolphins.
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Perhaps he should buy an umbrella and wade through the bright like a parasoled Victorian lady.
The Art Thief
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The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
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Once the home of John Grey, one of the great names in Irish yachting, this Victorian mid-terrace property is now owned by the artist Desmond McCarthy.
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At times, the book is reminiscent of a Victorian tear-jerker.
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Queen Victoria's black mourning gown fetched £3,000 yesterday at an auction of the largest private collection of period costumes in Britain.
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Web site GoSwitch lets you look at available options and can switch your account automatically if you live in Victoria site founder Ben Freund explains in an interview with The Australian why the process is fiddlier in other states.
GoSwitch helps you choose cheap electricity plans | Lifehacker Australia
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Simon Moglia from Victoria Legal Aid says it's a furphy to suggest the powers are not over-reaching.
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But would anyone turn up their nose at a wedge of fresh home-baked Victoria sponge, sandwiched with a generous splodge of farmhouse strawberry jam and dairy cream?
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Victorian outcry against what was termed 'a blot 'on the already rather shady' escutcheon 'of Australia, the immigration was stopped in 1868.
Town Life in Australia
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Said Victoria of their hot and steamy session: ‘We were all over each other.’
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Will leave you with a pic of my now hefty girl looking very Victorian with a big bumbo skirt!
Tequilamonky Diary Entry
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The bushranger was hanged in Melbourne in 1880 after being captured in a shoot-out with police in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria.
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Vehicle types produced included broughams, Victorias, hansoms, landaulets, and commercial vehicles include trucks and sightseeing buses.
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The intricate work, based on Victorian romantic decoration, was all done freehand using house paint.
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In 1853 Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the new palace.
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In daylight in winter through the bare trees you can see odd corners of the ornate Victorian glasshouses.
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The metage duty on coals which may belong to the Corporation after the year 1862, under 1 & 2 William IV., and 8 & 9 Victoria, is not to be affected by the present Bill; but he must be a confiding and unsuspecting individual who can trust to a long enjoyment of that source of income.
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
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The George Cross is second only to the Victoria Cross and is the highest civilian award for gallantry, recognising that the recipient has put their life in extreme danger for the sake of others.
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Nowadays, between scraps of undulating green parkland, there are stumps of surviving Victorian tenements.
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Her journal is an important document of Victorian rural life.
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Toast with toppings became very popular as ‘savoury toast’, beloved of the Victorians and Edwardians.
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This is the story behind the Victorian madwoman in the attic, of all the forgotten women whose rewritten histories replace isolation with hysteria, and non-conformity with insanity.
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The display will include ancient millstones, Victorian and Albert period clothing, and the Michael Cowan working miniatures.
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It would be an anachronism to talk of Queen Victoria watching television.
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I bet there are a few of you that are thinking shark, yuk, but a gummy shark, so named because it has no teeth, is probably the most popular fish in Victoria, served as it is in every fish 'n' chip shop as flake, which is what the flesh does when cooked and as a bonus, there are absolutely no bones in it.
At My Table
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Queen Victoria's ladies-in-waiting used to come here, in fact the Mayfair club has been entertaining London society since.
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Inset Tourists now reach Victoria Falls: poster advertising its natural wonders.
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They're planning the conference in a picturesque locale: University of Victoria.
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She had supervised the renovation of a large Victorian home, working with the architect and numerous subcontractors.
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Making any sort of progress is made worse by the gearchange, which is notchy, has too much play in the gearlever and has a throw length last seen on the levers in a Victorian signal box.
In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . .
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From the manicured lawns of the Victorian villas to the trimmed hedges of the freshly painted council houses, Beauly epitomises the word ‘tidy’.
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Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values.
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Singer-songwriter Christina Perri sings as Victoria twirls around on stage, doing moves that include synchronized falling to the ground whenever Christina sings the word "falling" in her lyrics.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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Victorian critics derided its vulgarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Men once more donned their pinnies in the kitchen when 15 of them were challenged to make Victoria sponges in the cake baking category.
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Yet by the end of the nineteenth century - the apogee of the Victorian Age - the moral justification for the empire and the scientific knowledge of the effects of opium use could no longer ensure that this drug trade would go unchallenged.
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The drawing room and dining areas are papered in Victorian style and have wooden floors and panelling.
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Sex - particularly sexual disease linked to prostitution - was an acutely embarrassing subject to any respectable Victorian woman.
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The Victorian charm remains strong in this novel of misadventure, and seems even more satirical in the context of today's society.
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Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself.
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They are wearing long very full skirts which were last fashionable in Victorian times.
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Even the socially conscious Victorians allow their principles to waver on this question.
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This was hidden under a huge Victorian wardrobe.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was an argument that the great pioneers who put in the Victorian sewers would have fully understood.
The Global Marketplace
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The peeress or daughter of a peer received a kiss from Queen Victoria.
The Court Presentation | Edwardian Promenade
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She ate scones thick with butter and newly made strawberry jam, victoria sponge, eccles cakes, potted meat sandwiches, ginger parkin.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The collective claims VicForests is illegally cutting down old trees in the area and threatening the habitat of the endangered Leadbeater's possum, which is one of Victoria's emblems.
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Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
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In a dominating position at the far end of the room was a massive Victorian roll-top desk.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
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I can recall looking at the preserved reproductive tracts of several hundred Victorian foxes and noting that few adult, first-year animals had produced young.
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Most Victorian financial crises were national, or at least affected one country more than others.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shirt has a polo collar, and inside the collar is a high quality woven small blue label that reads Arsenal, while engineered in to the side seam is a small label featuring two Arsenal canons either side of the club motto, ‘Victoria Concordia Crescit,’ which translates as ‘Victory Through Harmony’ flanked by two canons.
Arsenal 2009/2010 Away & Third team kits
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People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual endeavour.
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They can fill out a Victoria's Secret push-up and inspire other nursing mothers.
Anushay Hossain: Your Breast Face Forward: The Controversy Over Nursing Your Newborn
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The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished.
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Airlines proactively take steps - such as canceling flights in advance of storms - to minimize inconvenience and extensive delays and ultimately get customers where they are going safely and as quickly as possible," says Victoria Day, a spokeswoman for the Air Transport Association, an airline industry trade association.
The Seattle Times
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But Victorians, who are the yo-yo team of senior hockey, again plunge back to Section Two hockey next season.
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He had been prepared to cancel an engagement at London's Victoria and Albert Museum if a satisfactory outcome was reached.
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Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
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The beetles' iridescent wings were used in the Victorian era like sequins to decorate the dresses of society women.
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There is an intricate Victorian tiled entrance hall with a splendid banister and staircase leading to the upper floor and which is well lit by a large skylight.
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A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the
Expecting Rain
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In fact, it was Victorian fly fishermen, not scientists, who first studied these insects closely in order to imitate them with artificial flies.
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It doesn't get more British than Alfred Gilbert's 1887 monument to Queen Victoria, one of the oldest works in the year's first must-see exhibition: Modern British Sculpture.
This week's new exhibitions
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Here are the latest thoughts from Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Hastings, who presides over the coppers manning the checkpoints.
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Instead, Victoria received a bundle of letters bought at auction that Hepburn wrote to her father, the British banker Joseph Hepburn-Ruston, before he died.
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I also agree that Victoria has been jobbing, due to the fact that if there were a shoot match, the outcome would likely be much different.
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More recently the Victorian tycoon's reputation has been rehabilitated.
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The tour will start on the Victoria Embankment of the Thames, near Blackfriars Station, and pass the Houses of Parliament.
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He, having borrowed Victoria's thongs, would have managed with no trouble, but every way I tried to step into my cache-sexe there was one piece of elastic too many.
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Its whisky stills are the original copper and brass Victorian ones.
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I think I may give the Victorian tear-jerkers a miss from now on, though, and turn to some good, sigh-raising Torch Songs.
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Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
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Francis was promoted to a first class tidewaiter and then in 1858, aged 52, he was appointed gatekeeper of the Victoria Docks in Canning Town, West Ham.
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Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901.
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The narrative that emerged from the cobwebs was a remarkably coherent one, a detailed panorama of Victorian and Edwardian family life, full of humour and bathos as well as drama, passion and tragedy.
Hancox: All under one roof
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There can be no dispute that, immediately before any retention in Australia, Victoria was habitually resident in the UK.
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The experiment re-routed inbound traffic through the adjacent Victorian archway, which was previously used only by outbound vehicles.
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Although Universal Prince remains in the two-mile race, several bookmakers and Victoria's pari-mutuel suspended betting on last season's champion three-year-old colt.
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Note the victorian "pouf" in the space, just like the "pouf" in the Picasso show at the PMA!
Theartblog
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The charming honeymoon suite has its own gallery and a large double Victorian brass bed.
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This reminds me, one great example of Victorian futurology, I've put here on my site: Edison's Telephonoscope, in effect, a webcam (England to Australia), as imagined in 1879!
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Queen Victoria died at the turn of the century.
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Apparently the average club thought nothing of disposing of the works of the Victorian poets in one afternoon; the Italian Renaissance was fully treated and most ably discussed, according to one programme, at a single meeting; Rembrandt and his school were likewise disposed of in one afternoon, and German literature was adequately treated at one session in able papers.
Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage
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Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus.
Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo
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The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
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Such a metaphor betrays a complete lack of understanding, of empathy with Victorian culture.
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Braving the icy torrents of white water in the Victorian Alps, personnel from the School of Artillery discovered the true meaning of adventurous training.
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Victorian cut glass is perhaps the most underpriced area of the antique glass market.
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We've got the ground and first floor of a Victorian terrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taking slow, purposeful strides he took the seat next to Victoria on the bench and wrapped his arms around her; pulling her close to him so she could cry into his shoulder.
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I was privileged yesterday to be the guest of honour at the Victoria University graduation ceremony for commerce graduands.
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So, given the right circs there's a chance he could end up at one of many Victorian clubs.
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The double-faced clock is mounted on the front of the old fire station on Victoria Road, next to the town's bus station.
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Skaters were also having a splendid time in Victoria Park, which had been flooded, and was covered with a sheet of ice in grand condition.
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Friday saw the last ever outing of the traditional No 73 Routemaster bus, which goes through north-east London to Victoria.
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Modern horror, pah - give me a proper Victorian ghost story anytime.
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The evangelical revival made sabbatarianism fashionable, so that on a Victorian Sunday there was no sport or pleasure, not even reading of serious secular literature.
