Word: victorian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fashionable at that time to deplore the decorative grandeur and the Victorian excess," Knowles noted...
...appearances, it was a relaxing evening, a cozy dinner for four. The hosts served filet of sole and good white wine. They gave the guests a tour of the house, a Victorian mansion on a hill, then sat them down in the living room, where they all swapped child-rearing stories and cooed over wedding albums...
...English has a reputation among Harvard students for being a relatively fluffy major," says Jenny K. Little '99, who is writing a thesis on Victorian children's literature...
...coined the term eugenics, from a Greek stem meaning "good in birth," was a cousin of Charles Darwin's. Englishman Francis Galton (1822-1911) had a substantial inheritance and a Victorian range of scientific curiosity. He dabbled in a number of fields, including geographical exploration, but his passion was mathematics, particularly the infant field of statistics...
...grant from the OFA), so that one entered and felt like one really was by a warm hearth in a land of ale and pudding just before the sordid ugliness of the Industrial Revolution sank in (oh, the theme for this year's Revels was a Dickensian journey through Victorian England). There was holly and gold and props like an affection-starved distant female relative gone too lonely. And enough opulent poofy costumes to cover the sky. On-stage and off. It was all very-rich...