Sample sentences for QUEEN VICTORIA

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Definition

queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 when the monarchy had primarily symbolic power; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)

The Victorian era is in reference to the 63 years that Queen Victoria ruled.

Queen Victoria = queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 when the monarchy had primarily symbolic power

This spectacle was witnessed by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
Queen Victoria was the longest queen.
Richard Lederer -- A Brief History of the World
—Manfred, St. Christopher, or Queen Victoria?
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
She was plump and dumpy now, rather like Queen Victoria, and she received him faithfully.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
'This music crept by me upon the waters' 257 And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.
T.S. Eliot -- The Waste Land
But then again, I am a trained scientist, the personal phrenologist to Queen Victoria herself.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
See yourself—a little Queen Victoria trotting round.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
He was Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son, and he had been sent to Christ Church so that Dean Liddell might oversee his education.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
It was not difficult to persuade them to give him return passage in exchange for the cabin he had surrendered to the representative of Queen Victoria.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
You act like you were a combination of Queen Victoria and Cleopatra.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
Queen Victoria had a party there or something.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter: Close your eyes and think of England.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
Statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, or something?
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
Will she have orange blossoms embroidered on her dress for luck as Queen Victoria did?
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
Word of his gift spread and in 1858 he was summoned to Windsor Castle in England to calm a horse of Queen Victoria's.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Half the English-speaking world has heard of Admiral Worthington—a naval hero, decorated by Queen Victoria herself.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
"Queen Victoria was different," murmured Mahmoud Ali.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
"Queen Victoria," the Indian boy said quickly.
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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