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Usage examples of victoria.

The sexual acts in which Richard Hudson engaged each of these three women involved a high degree of probability that they would result in their deaths, and he committed those acts for a base, antisocial purpose and with wanton disregard for the lives of Victoria Mitten, Jane Sorensen, and Marian Browning.

After church, Lady Bellamy went home to lunch, but she was in no mood for eating, so she left the table, and ordered the victoria to be round in half an hour.

CHAPTER LX That same afternoon, Lady Bellamy ordered out the victoria with the fast trotting horse, and drove to the Abbey House.

Then the two ladies settled themselves and smiled their adieux, and the little victoria rumbled away at an easy pace, while Bernard stood with Gordon, looking after it.

Technicians were taking pictures when Detective Ray Bisse arrived in his brown Crown Victoria and parked beside the Bronco.

Victoria who had once, long ago, in some bloomless Eden of tradition, become the wife of Virginius?

He sat facing Victoria Ray and Stephen Knight, and Stephen found it difficult not to stare at the superb, pale brown person whose very high white turban, bound with light grey cord, gave him a dignity beyond his years, and whose pale grey burnous, over a gold-embroidered vest of dark rose-colour, added picturesqueness which appeared theatrical in eyes unaccustomed to the East.

Victoria was an excellent rider, an accomplished horsewoman who knew her mount well.

On summers in her girlhood her family had returned to a small town of one thousand in The Mallee region of north Victoria.

The Morganites were notorious troublemakers and, besides, the Federals and the Victoria League were traditional, if mutually wary, allies.

Meanwhile the Victoria League was now insisting that the Morganites compensate them for the lost harvest.

Victoria Morgenstern was certainly the most forceful woman he had ever met.

Vickers reminded himself that, as far as all the world, with sole exception of Victoria Morgenstern was concerned, he was also terminally unemployed.

Victoria Morgenstern seemed to have been affected by the proximity of so many uniforms.

Miss Overmore hereupon immediately took her from him, and they had a merry little scrimmage over her of which Maisie caught the surprised perception in the white stare of an old lady who passed in a victoria.