At the same time the Battalion received drafts of 4th London men from the Queen Victorias and the Kensingtons, to whom they had been sent in error.
Smart turnouts and little private victorias with tinkling bells are constantly arriving and departing.
When you have dined, you can turn your armchair and watch the beauty about you and the victoriascoming and going.
These were followed by companies of horsemen dressed in every sort of fantastic costume; victorias filled with merry maskers, floats with goddesses, and burlesqued well-known public characters.
One of the well-horsed, elegant little public victorias with which the city is so well supplied stopped at the curb, and the handsome head of Preston Fairfax Fitzhugh Carroll was thrust forth.
Accordingly she stepped into one of the pretty little toy victorias with which the city swarms.
Streams of more frugal nymphs, without victorias but with the same rakish air, push along with the sidewalk crowd, hats pinned like a wafer over one ear, coiffures drawn trimly up from powdered necks.
Those who can afford to keep their victorias wait until nearly sunset for a drive, and then go to respond by sweet smiles to the salutations of the caballeros on the paseos; afterwards to the Parque de Isabella II.
The driver in scarlet, the twelve swallow-tails in black, and the occupants of the victoriaseach and all are smoking cigars as though their lives depended upon the successful operation.
The ladies commonly make their purchases late in the afternoon or evening, stopping in their victorias at the doors of the shops, from whence the articles they desire are brought by the shopmen and deftly displayed on the street.
The wind comes soft as velvet; the surf croons a lullaby, and the little toy horses and toy victorias spin up and down between the palms, settling at last around the turf oval which surrounds the bandstand.
Victorias and carromatas outside were crowded as carriages are about the theatres on grand opera nights at home.
The women exchanged calls and gave formal dinners and drove about in rickety little victoriaswith terrified natives in livery perched upon the box.
The jack-rabbit horses attached to the ramshackle little victorias lean wearily in their shafts, for these are busy days.
Smaller carriages followed till you come down to victorias with perhaps just one syce.
In this way Bucaramangas frequently were transformed into Bogotas, Rios became Santos, Bahias and Victorias were sold as Rios, and the misbranding of peaberry was quite common.
Yes," the elder assented, "we butterflies andvictorias belong to the youth of the year and the world.
But I've an idea that the victorias are remaining to stay; if some sort of mechanical horse could be substituted for the poor old animals that remind me of my mortality, I should be sure of it.
It's the soft weather that brings your victorias out like the belated butterflies.
Handsome victorias drawn by beautiful horses, coachmen and footmen, with their bright turbans and oriental dress, lends enchantment to the view and reminded one of the display Aladdin made when he went to claim his bride.
Among them are loaded camels, people on horses, donkeys, mules, victorias drawn by Arab steeds always on the trot.
It is an idiosyncrasy of the cabs in Madrid that only the open victorias have rubber tires; if you go in a coupe you must consent to be ruthlessly bounced over the rough pavements on wheels unsoftened.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "victorias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
