Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...became Vicar of Christ's Church at Lancaster Gate. Three years later he was made Canon of Windsor, holding that place for two years. From 1884 to 1911 he was Bishop of Ripon, and in 1912 he was made Canon of Westminster. He is Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and from 1879 to 1883 was Chaplain to the Queen...
...Victorian has been trained to recognize the pathetic fallacy; Ruskin must be taken with a great deal of salt. But figures are intended to make clearer the thought which they illustrate, are they not? He tries...
Surely the purpose of the writer of this last is commendable, but is the source of the Victorian's trouble the grammar or the punctuation...
...These are very excellent and varied words," says the Victorian, "highly connetstive; some of them trip together delightfully; only, what do they mean?" Irresistibly the mind of the Victorian runs back to that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home...
After all the Victorian is a sadly...