Sentence examples for distinctly Victorian from inspiring English sources
The interior is distinctly Victorian, too.
The distinctly Victorian nastiness of section 377 in fact forbids "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal".
On that subject, it's very modish to substitute soft-boiled or poached eggs, but I prefer a distinctly Victorian solidity on this occasion.
The basement breakfast room is distinctly non-Victorian, with bold wood floors and bright red, blue and mustard yellow chairs.
Its busier rivals Los Angeles, Long Beach and New York/New Jersey—sit on saltwater bays; Savannah's port is almost 20 miles (32km) inland on the Savannah River, far from the city's charming Victorian centre, in the distinctly unlovely suburb of Garden City.Yet it is precisely that remote site that has allowed Savannah to grow as swiftly as it has: land is cheap and available.
Funny indeed, for a man who would come to be associated with distinctly un-Arctic environments: the gas-lit glow of Victorian London, the famous chambers at 221B Baker Street, and — further afield, but not much — the gabled manors and foggy moors where Sherlock Holmes tracked bloody footprints and dogs failed to bark in the night.
What he remembered distinctly was the children in a primary school looking through the Victorian railings of the playground as their fathers, brothers and uncles went by, and singing to them in the face of defeat.
The course of that distant Victorian war followed a trajectory that is beginning to seem distinctly familiar.
"It is almost Victorian".
