Citations:victoria


 * February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
 * "Then what became of her?"
 * "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'"
 * "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
 * "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers."
 * "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria."
 * "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
 * 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 131
 * Black victorias drive in between pompous pillars with plaster shields stuck to them.
 * 2003 &mdash; We drove to the railroad station in a one-horse victoria, perhaps the last of a legendary line already extinct in the rest of the world. &mdash; Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1, 2002. Translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.
 * 2003 &mdash; We drove to the railroad station in a one-horse victoria, perhaps the last of a legendary line already extinct in the rest of the world. &mdash; Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1, 2002. Translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.