How To Use Victorian In A Sentence

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
Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
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. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed.

See the city's fine Victorian architecture, and visit its excellent museums.
We have so many quaint old settler cottages as well as grand Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
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.
Her journal is an important document of Victorian rural life.
Victorian propriety is an important element of the story, the atmosphere to be upended over and over by slapstick action and sudden death. Archive 2008-02-01
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).
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.
Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
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.
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.
Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
Utilitarianism in Victorian England was often misconstructed as essentially anti-art, indeed as the doctrine of cultural philistines.
This two bedroom duplex apartment has a private entrance hall and retains original Victorian features including high ceilings, decorative architraves and period fireplaces.
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.
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.
Sir Andrew describes the character as ‘one of the best villains in Victorian fiction’.
Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land.
He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste.
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.
The formal Victorian portrait gave way to the informal snapshot, and now to the intimacy of the phonecam and picture message.
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.
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.
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
It is described as a romance, set across the social divide in the world of Victorian industrial society.
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.
And "-- he held up a finger -- `a Victorian civilizing mission. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
During the Victorian lesson, Ms Roberts had the pupils reciting prayers by rote and kept the classroom atmosphere strict and formal.
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.
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...
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.
Thousands of Victorian workers joined educational associations in an attempt to better themselves.
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
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
Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready.
It's a quiet residential backwater surrounded by old Victorian terraces.
The Victorian Building Workers campaign for a shorter working week was also discussed at length.
‘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.
Victorians drew little class distinction between the rowdy music-hall and 'serious' playgoing. Times, Sunday Times
More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus, a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.
Last week the Victorian Supreme Court rejected a challenge to State legislation known as the Farm Dams Act.
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.
The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
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.
Rare is the folk album that is comfortable referencing the Neighbours theme tune alongside obscure Victorian parlour music.
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.
The Victorian building had been divided into four flats and, together with the neighbouring house, was being used as squats.
I needed to get up, not loll there like a Victorian heroine. Raziel
This reminds us that Elgar was culturally a Victorian who flourished under the reign of Victoria's son.
They had promised to turn the Victorian building into a ‘first quality hotel’ with a bar and restaurant, he said.
Victorians sought to create respectable personal habits in societies where the vast majority of inhabitants can be described only as crude.
Thousands of Victorian workers joined educational associations in an attempt to better themselves.
She was a very fine commentator on the social condition of Victorian England.
Perhaps he should buy an umbrella and wade through the bright like a parasoled Victorian lady. The Art Thief
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.
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.
At times, the book is reminiscent of a Victorian tear-jerker.
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
Will leave you with a pic of my now hefty girl looking very Victorian with a big bumbo skirt! Tequilamonky Diary Entry
The intricate work, based on Victorian romantic decoration, was all done freehand using house paint.
In daylight in winter through the bare trees you can see odd corners of the ornate Victorian glasshouses.
Nowadays, between scraps of undulating green parkland, there are stumps of surviving Victorian tenements.
Her journal is an important document of Victorian rural life.
Toast with toppings became very popular as ‘savoury toast’, beloved of the Victorians and Edwardians.
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.
The display will include ancient millstones, Victorian and Albert period clothing, and the Michael Cowan working miniatures.
She had supervised the renovation of a large Victorian home, working with the architect and numerous subcontractors.
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. . .
From the manicured lawns of the Victorian villas to the trimmed hedges of the freshly painted council houses, Beauly epitomises the word ‘tidy’.
Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values.
Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The drawing room and dining areas are papered in Victorian style and have wooden floors and panelling.
Sex - particularly sexual disease linked to prostitution - was an acutely embarrassing subject to any respectable Victorian woman.
The Victorian charm remains strong in this novel of misadventure, and seems even more satirical in the context of today's society.
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.
They are wearing long very full skirts which were last fashionable in Victorian times.
Even the socially conscious Victorians allow their principles to waver on this question.
This was hidden under a huge Victorian wardrobe. Times, Sunday Times
It was an argument that the great pioneers who put in the Victorian sewers would have fully understood. The Global Marketplace
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
In a dominating position at the far end of the room was a massive Victorian roll-top desk. STAGE FRIGHT
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
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.
Most Victorian financial crises were national, or at least affected one country more than others. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
But Victorians, who are the yo-yo team of senior hockey, again plunge back to Section Two hockey next season.
Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
The beetles' iridescent wings were used in the Victorian era like sequins to decorate the dresses of society women.
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.
In fact, it was Victorian fly fishermen, not scientists, who first studied these insects closely in order to imitate them with artificial flies.
More recently the Victorian tycoon's reputation has been rehabilitated.
Its whisky stills are the original copper and brass Victorian ones.
I think I may give the Victorian tear-jerkers a miss from now on, though, and turn to some good, sigh-raising Torch Songs.
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
The experiment re-routed inbound traffic through the adjacent Victorian archway, which was previously used only by outbound vehicles.
Note the victorian "pouf" in the space, just like the "pouf" in the Picasso show at the PMA! Theartblog
The charming honeymoon suite has its own gallery and a large double Victorian brass bed.
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!
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
The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
Such a metaphor betrays a complete lack of understanding, of empathy with Victorian culture.
Braving the icy torrents of white water in the Victorian Alps, personnel from the School of Artillery discovered the true meaning of adventurous training.
Victorian cut glass is perhaps the most underpriced area of the antique glass market.
We've got the ground and first floor of a Victorian terrace. Times, Sunday Times
So, given the right circs there's a chance he could end up at one of many Victorian clubs.
Modern horror, pah - give me a proper Victorian ghost story anytime.
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.
The rhetoric inherited from the Victorian world insists that prostitutes were penniless waifs of the street, servant girls who were seduced and abandoned, or the coarse streetwalkers hardened by city life.
Having been here when Queen Victoria reigned, Deans is the only blinds company that is still in business who can provide an authentic Victorian or Edwardian awning to complete the finishing touch to a serious restoration project on a shop, restaurant or even a special private house.
He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
The ad has little black Victorian silhouettes and a pineapple as its logo.
Adult workshops/public programs that relate to the Victorian era are offered through the year, including china painting, Battenberg lacemaking, beginning watercolors, paper quilling, and Christmas goosefeather trees.
THE first traffic lights in Victorian London exploded because of a leaking gas valve. Times, Sunday Times
The windows of these Victorian rooms were large, plain and disproportionate to the original (whose front they extended). IN LOVE AND WAR
The Irish magdalen asylum had its roots in the Victorian rescue movement, and many of the magdalen asylums began as lay efforts to rescue and reform prostitutes.
Ladies I can't for the life of me figure out why I got so much dissention from a simple post about the beauty of Victorian life that was LEFT FOR US. Learning From Victorian Families
Victorian and Edwardian critics distrusted and disliked the Chandos portrait. Times, Sunday Times
The amazing tale of Corinne's extraliterary life and wanderings, both through Europe and across America, can be followed in Ellen Moers's essay "Performing Heroinism: The Myth of Corinne" in Literary Women (Doubleday, 1976); and in Angela Leighton's Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (University of Virginia Press, 1992). The Great de Staël
Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry.
But in Victorian times it suffered a slow demise, as barrel organs and harmoniums replaced the bands, and a surpliced choir in the chancel tended to supersede the old gallery singers, bringing a return to conventional art music.
The awful intelligence came to me that Harwell must have loved that sentimental Victorian monstrosity. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
The squints, or hagioscopes, were originally angled but were unfortunately straightened by the Victorians.
‘Ironically,’ notes Miller, ‘the sort of feminist reading which stressed Charlotte's victimhood unintentionally reproduced the martyrology of the Victorians.’
While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film. The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
In taking such excessive, evasive action he was not the only eminent Victorian to be sickened by the idea of engaging in sexual congress.
We recently moved into a flat in a Victorian building and upset the neighbours with extensive refurbishment. Times, Sunday Times
The announcement by the government that it is to sell off Victorian prisons and build nine new ones is welcome. Times, Sunday Times
At this late date in the history of Victorian studies, no one is going to be surprised by a Victorian interest in the unclothed figure.
It was built to replace the old Victorian jail.
Victorian and Edwardian critics distrusted and disliked the Chandos portrait. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the jewel in the crown, so to speak, of the Central Business District or ‘The Fort’ is the old colonial Army and Navy Store, built in 1889, when Victorian memsahibs with parasols went shopping with their servants.
By 2015, academics had coined the phrase "urban neo-Victorian dystopia" to describe the dramatic social and spatial changes in the city they had begun to compare, with only a little exaggeration, with the London described by Charles Dickens 160 years earlier. The Guardian World News
A short stroll from the Montessori school and one street over from the big Victorian house with the pool where they give lessons to all the neighbourhood kids. Going Placidly Beyond The Noise And Haste | Her Bad Mother
The Victorians regarded the railways as bringing progress and civilization.
Despite the rehabilitation of such major Victorian painters as Rossetti and Burne-Jones, Watts has not yet made it back into the Victorian pantheon.
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
The reader gawps, in turns amused and appalled, at an enthralling variety bill of Victorians and Social Gospellers.
The title was also changed in deference to Victorian decorum: the primmer suburban class was deterred by "ruddy" - considered a cuss word close to the obscenity of "bloody" - so Ruddygore became Ruddigore, under which name it went on to achieve a solidly profitable run of 288 performances. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The writing too is more evolved than you would have found in Victorian pulp fiction. The Sun
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.
Bronte's limited world was one of moorland and governesses, big houses and class strictures, but Boylan goes further, uncovering the underbelly of Victorian society with retrospective omniscience.
At his Street sale on the Tuesday, there is a pair of late 19th century baluster-shaped glass decanters with diamond-cut decoration (estimate 80 to 100) and two late Victorian oak tantalus, each with a very affordable estimate of 100 to 150.
Victorian "muscular Christianity" was all about achieving self-control through strict mental and physical discipline.
As the audience fill the auditorium, they will see a Victorian audience fill a duplicate auditorium behind a gauze on stage.
He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building.
London is not one homogenised urban sprawl: it is hundreds of once separate villages that the Victorian explosion agglomerated into a continuous habitation.
I picked up a splendid pair of panel-cut Victorian decanters with original stoppers for £90-now, that has to be value for money.
The room is carpeted and has a white ceramic suite which comprises a free-standing Victorian bath, wash hand basin and toilet.
Our more skeptical age is apt to greet a performance like this with a smirk, as just more fussy Victorian moralism.
Dating from 1846, the building contained public baths and wash houses, an important amenity and social focus in the Victorian East End.
Indeed much Victorian plasterwork is highly ornamental too, though it rarely had the refinement of the Georgian period.
The equation between proper dress and proper speech is made explicitly in Victorian etiquette manuals, where proprieties of language are spoken of as if they were cosmetics.
Matthew Arnold, a British celebrity of culture in Victorian times, was an advocate of social reform, though he was regarded as one representative of cultural conservatives.
There are no cosy Victorian squares surrounded by gentrified terraces.
It was formed in 1901 as part of the Temperance Movement a series of Victorian religious and political pressure groups advocating teetotalism.
Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
Thousands of Victorian workers joined educational associations in an attempt to better themselves.
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
The latest edition of Raw Vision reports on the growing interest in a highly collectable strand of outsider art, the Victorian Spar Box.
In her latest novel she paints a vivid picture of life in Victorian England.
Gardens with an extensive herbaceous border, feature lawns, rockery and Victorian kitchen garden.
These remarkably beautiful beaded pieces are presented alongside an astonishing array of objects created expressly for the Victorian tourist market, including pincushions, photo frames, decorative boxes and wall pieces.
We ducked back into shadow, shivering, and VDU screens and Victorian bracket clocks told us how slowly the hours went by. The Gates of Noon
In September we found ourselves owners of a Victorian, former Duchy of Cornwall flat in a mansion block on a 90-year lease with a secluded garden.
Now under Victorian law, there is a specific power granted by parliament to enable police to engage in criminal activity for drug investigations.
There's also plenty for the family to do and see – Victorian traditions such as helter skelter, carousel and swing boats, a steam engine, ice rink, coconut shi and hoopla stalls, street entertainment, music and shows all bring a taste of the past back to the town. The Bedford Christmas Victorian Market
The rooms are themed after a Victorian inventor's attempts to reach space with steam power and are styled with retro planetary drawings. Times, Sunday Times
This is not something that under Victorian law resounds at all but it is what one might call a form of reasonable approach or professional practice that follows from the local defamation law.
the Victorian era redux
That suddenly makes the cost of repairing our fine Victorian building seem eminently reasonable.
The fine red-brick Victorian building complete with clock tower used to be the administrative building of the local county asylum. Times, Sunday Times
There is something inherently exquisite about Victorian chromolithography that is so compelling.
The charming honeymoon suite has its own gallery and a large double Victorian brass bed.
Health trusts made use of this to refurbish Victorian buildings and install modern equipment. Times, Sunday Times
The writing too is more evolved than you would have found in Victorian pulp fiction. The Sun
Roomy High Victorian pub, with big bay windows and glass partitions.
The living layout is great, we have the entire Parlor Level of the brownstone, which offers 13 foot high ceilings, 9 foot high windows, as well as the preserved details from the Victorian period; crown moldings, marble fireplace, and cherry hardwood floors, all original. Loft Apartment in London by Urban Spaces
So railways affected most mass spectatorship of sport only to a limited extent in the Victorian era.
The windows of these Victorian rooms were large, plain and disproportionate to the original (whose front they extended). IN LOVE AND WAR
They were jerry-built in the Victorian era, and then nearly shaken to bits during the Blitz. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
This works best in Victorian terraced houses and post-war semis. Times, Sunday Times
Victorian and Edwardian critics distrusted and disliked the Chandos portrait. Times, Sunday Times
In their heyday in the Victorian era, these powerhouses of energy could plough 20 times faster than a horse-drawn ploughman and his team and were transported from farm to farm.
The Victorian crossing-sweeper was exactly analogous to the ubiquitous windscreen cleaner to be found importuning motorists at London and New York traffic-lights in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Federation Flag was flown as commonly, particularly in NSW, in part because cornstalks thought the Blue Ensign as so close to the Victorian flag it made no difference.
The women were found dead by police and paramedics on Friday who were called to the Victorian semi where the pair lived. The Sun
Albert Robida's ‘Twentieth Century’ was recently republished, its filled with wonderful Victorian speculations of the next century.
This section in itself is a splendid potted history of changing tastes in illustration and changing attitudes to the Victorians. Times, Sunday Times
The address Geraldine Hope had given him turned out to be a nondescript street of Victorian brick semis in a rundown area of Tynemouth. LOST SUMMER
The development of sewage systems by Victorian engineers meant human effluent was discharged into the sea, contaminating many shellfish beds.
The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
I recently encountered the term Victorian "blood" novels, but I am having no luck figuring out what they are. Halloween Historical Horrorama
The turned tapering legs with carved upper sections and brass toes and castors are again typical of the William IV or early Victorian period.
John and Sunday Reed lived for over thirty years in this Victorian weatherboard and one-time dairy-farm house.

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