Example Sentences

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Most of the dancers were in evening dress, and it would have been impossible to tell the ball from a Belgravian gathering, except by the preponderance of youth and beauty.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

"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

It was winter time, about a fortnight after Christmas, and the night was snowy and slushy outside, though warm enough in the kitchen of a big Belgravian house.

From The Black Poodle And Other Tales by Anstey, F.

Rushing outside, we catch p. 42hasty glimpses of our hereditary legislators as they, in fashionable brougham or on splendid blood, start for their parks or respective Belgravian homes. 

From Here and There in London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Or yet again: A triumphant Suffragist said to a Belgravian sister: "So we've got the vote at last!"

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine