Victorian

Example Sentences

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The story is cheery, funny and even a little creepy in its Victorian goth way.

From Salon

Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of Victorian hobnailed shoes which have washed ashore on a beach.

From BBC

In Victorian times, the telling, or reading, of ghost stories was a Christmas tradition; the most enduring Yule-time tale — Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” written in 1843 — is first and foremost a ghost story.

From Los Angeles Times

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