The buildings are Victorian-era sandstone; the stude. From Wordnik.com. [Eric L. Lewis: The Struggle for Muslim Minds in Lebanon] Reference
The catch: The dirty talk is a famous actress reading Victorian-era erotica. From Wordnik.com. [IN ODDER NEWS: The World’s Best Balloon Animal | Best Week Ever] Reference
I took this photo of Edinburgh Castle in May from the Victorian-era park below. From Wordnik.com. [Photo Friday: Memories « The Life and Times of Organic Mama] Reference
Victorian-era arcades and red brick Victorian godowns line the streets of the port. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka Unplugged] Reference
Inevitably the 19th-century zeitgeist and its Victorian-era tendencies ran their course. From Wordnik.com. [Century-old plan to dress up Mall looks good today] Reference
By the late 1800's Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's Victorian-era aristocrats. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Rittenhouse Square] Reference
Appearances had to be kept up, and two enormous Victorian-era households had to be supported. From Wordnik.com. [Review of 'The Fall of the House of Walworth,' by Geoffrey O'Brien] Reference
Good article from The Ephemera Society of America about Victorian-era goldfish trading cards. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 6, 2002 - January 12, 2002 Archives] Reference
Today I was browsing through Amazon, looking for books on Victorian-era medicine and surgery. From Wordnik.com. [good ol' Aburt] Reference
And indeed, Carter has sometimes dressed as though a Victorian-era attic just threw up on her. From Wordnik.com. [From Martin Scorsese to Helena Bonham Carter, the most surprising entries on Vanity Fair's 2010 International Best Dressed List] Reference
The most amusing one was by the real Victorian-era sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota, Seth Bullock. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Dupuy: Not One of the Ten Commandments Are in the Constitution] Reference
A Victorian-era extended family would have shared the public spaces, retreating to private bedrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Falls Church house is Victorian through and through] Reference
For instance, a Victorian-era gravestone featuring a rosebud or lamb might indicate a child's grave. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
"It's so far out for a Victorian-era conservative organization like us ... kinda freaky," Hood said. From Wordnik.com. [Top 400 Charities See Billions Less In Donations, Biggest Percentage Drop Ever Recorded] Reference
Born into a loving middle-class Victorian-era family, Therese was the youngest of five girls in the family. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
She wanted it to display in her living room--she and her husband are building a Victorian-era replica house. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
Rediscover this literary classic, retold in a kind of apocalyptic graphic novel meets Victorian-era toy theater. From Wordnik.com. [Today in Medieval and/or Puppet News] Reference
A love of anthropology draws Berger to historical forms: apothecary jars, measuring devices, Victorian-era flytraps. From Wordnik.com. [Functional Glassworks For The Home] Reference
The 160-room Victorian-era mansion was home to rifle heiress Sarah Winchester, who tried to commune with the afterlife. From Wordnik.com. [The World (Wide Web) Series] Reference
The Court of the Air is part steampunk and part Victorian-era fantasy with a bit of Lovecraft thrown in for good measure. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt] Reference
I'd pilfered dozens from my grandfather's attic — many skewed toward an obsession with Victorian-era firearms and birds. From Wordnik.com. [Make Middling Art Look Marv] Reference
The central element of the design is the Gas Holders, a Victorian-era building since dismantled and now reconstructed here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
He spun open several folders, and suddenly there were (gag) autopsy photos all over the Victorian-era mahogany coffee table. From Wordnik.com. [Undead and Unworthy]
It also organizes several parties each year, including an annual meeting for which many residents wear Victorian-era outfits. From Wordnik.com. [Association Living] Reference
There's an antique car from the tram's early days, as well as examples of Victorian-era clothing and photos of old Hong Kong. From Wordnik.com. [48 Hours: On the Town With Kids] Reference
Sometimes I wonder if you haven't escaped from some Victorian-era boarding school for girls (or if it's just my wife's fault). From Wordnik.com. [we got the last bottle of soco] Reference
It is a society based entirely on shared interests - a themed community built of a patchwork quilt of Victorian-era iconography. From Wordnik.com. [The Postnational Sodalities of Second Life: An Iconographic Approach] Reference
Lots of amazing bits and pieces in there, for example, how Flatland is a satire of the Victorian-era society that Abbott lived in. From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 1/26/07] Reference
I think I'll do one this winter in a snowflake patterned polarfleece, with an attached hood for my drafty Victorian-era apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Prim, proper, perfect, pained - A Dress A Day] Reference
Victorian-era actor William H. Crane was the Lon Chaney of his day -- a master of transforming his features with greasepaint and putty. From Wordnik.com. [Drinking the Chicago Way] Reference
Instead of simply spacing out the letters, he could have really seized upon the opportunity to employ some flowery Victorian-era prose. From Wordnik.com. [Penny-Ante: The Ordinary Trend Moves Up a Notch] Reference
Mann captures Victorian-era London very well, yet he truly excels with that proper, stuffy British-ness that one associates with the time. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
Many of these Victorian-era photographs from the Bethlem are reproduced in a thought-provoking book called Presumed Curable reviewed here. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: April 2006 Archives] Reference
We'll also talk with Jake von Slatt, creator of the Victorian-era Wimshurst Spark Generator that appears on the cover of our current issue. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Then came Maggie, dressed in her mother's white Victorian-era wedding gown, escorted by the feared old man himself, who stared ahead with fire in his eyes at Freddy. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Sunday] Reference
Years ago, when we were first married, Andy stayed home for a year working on our first home, a Victorian-era house so dilapidated my mom said she wept after her first visit. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
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