In the days when Queen Victoria was the grandmother of Europe this was a plausible argument.

ESPIRITU SANTO, (1) a small and swampy maritime province of Brazil (121), lying on the N. border of Rio de Janeiro; does some trade in timber, cotton, coffee, and sugar; Victoria is the capital; (2) a town (32) in central Cuba; (3) the largest of the NEW HEBRIDES (q. v.) (20); the climate is unhealthy, but the soil fertile.

As for Her Most Gracious Majesty's permission, it was conveyed to me in a document beginning, "VICTORIA, by the grace of," &c, and containing the signature of Lord HALSBURY, the Lord ChancellorNo, by the way, that is another Royal communication.

Victoria: in my name there's conquest writ: I therefore feare no threat[e]nings!

No, I'm not for a minute intimating that Victoria is a Messalina.

Queen Victoria at various times was the possessor of one or more fine specimens of the Bloodhound, procured for her by Sir Edwin Landseer, and a capital hound from the Home Park Kennels at Windsor was exhibited at the London Show in 1869, the judge on the occasion being the Rev. Thomas Pearce, afterwards known as "Idstone."

Victoria is the swan-song of Hamsun's subjective period.

Eh, dear, I never wanted for coompany when Victoria were theer.

Queen Victoria is almost an insane devotee of the new philosophy.

"Why, the last time Aunt Victoria was herethat long time agowhen they were all out playing ballshe looked round and round at everythingat your dress and mine and the furnitureyou knowthethe uncomfortable way she does sometimesand she said, 'Well, Sylvianobody can say that your parents aren't leading you a very idyllic life.'

Lake Victoria is only an insignificant sheet of water, after all the talk of its being second only to Lake Superior.

Aunt Victoria might have been a blue-uniformed messenger-boy for all that was betrayed by their skilfully casual glance at her and then away, and the subsequent directness of their forward gaze across the campus.

Victoria herself is not more independent of me or my positionestablished facts as both are in the eyes of somethan is Christian Garth.

Queen Victoria was their most regular and generous patron.

Sylvia stopped, suddenly warned by some instinct that Aunt Victoria would not be a sympathetic listener to that unforgotten episode of her childhood, that episode which had seemed to have no consequences, no sequel, but which ever since that day had insensibly affected the course of her growth, like a great rock fallen into the Current of her life.

The Prussian king set up as a Caesar in 1871; Queen Victoria became the Caesar of India (Kaisir-i-Hind) under the auspices of Lord Beaconsfield, and last and least, that most detestable of all Coburgers, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, gave Kaiserism a touch of quaint absurdity by setting up as Czar of Bulgaria.

For pyramids and bushes, Victoria, Early Prolific, Prince Engelbert, Sultan, and Belgian Purple are good sorts.

Her late Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria was Mr. Gladstone's only rival as the literary destiny of the time.

THE MODERN PERIOD OF PROGRESS AND UNREST When Victoria became queen, in 1837, English literature seemed to have entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with the poetic fruitfulness of the romantic age which we have just studied.

The victoria is quite out of sight nowquite out of sight the delicately poised head, the dove-colored parasol.

" Queen Victoria was no stranger to the people of India.