Belgravian
- a word derived from Belgravia.
Example Sentences
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But its object was always to escape the formality of rent-paying, and it was now lodged in an untenanted mansion belonging to a viscount in a great Belgravian square.
From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold
In a Belgravian chapel or church such an interruption would have created a far greater disturbance.
From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Some good-natured Mayfair dame, I believe, introduced the “Kettledrum” for the especial saving of poor young men who did not know what to do with their afternoons in our arid Belgravian desert.
From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
He had been taken over with his mother, somewhat in the same way as the furniture of the Belgravian mansion had been taken over, as if on the ground of belonging to her exclusively.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph
"If Belgravian mothers have mercenary minds, that is no reason why I should, whose cheeks have bronzed in the service of a virtuous queen, and whose hairs have whitened in honor."
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
