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Many things are queer in the Victorian novel. Bot by @ydshiroma

Queer Street
Joined January 2017
Upon my soul and body, it’s the queerest sort of thing altogether--but there’s no use in talking about it. Ha! Ha!’
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her blue eyes looking bluer, and her dimpled face looking brighter, and her whole self prettier and gayer, a curious feeling
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I went on to describe to her the gay company that had lately been staying at the house; and to these details Bessie listened with interest
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one so young and gay, and—and interesting
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a state of irritation that I left Trimley Deen the next morning, to find forgetfulness, as I rashly supposed, in the gay world of London
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_“Jan. 6th._--Once a gay day; but now a sad one.
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apple-stalls, nail-stalls, bottle-stalls, pigsfoot-stalls; in queer old shops
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apple-stalls, nail-stalls, bottle-stalls, pigsfoot-stalls; in queer old shops
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Chapter 1 LODGERS IN QUEER STREET
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both so excessively gay and noisy, that I soon found they had been free in drinking to their success.
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he is one of the most indiscreet persons I ever met with. Does the queerest things, when the whim takes him, and doesn’t care
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The room was very magnificent, the lights and decorations were brilliant, and the company gay and splendid.
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our gallant, gay Lothario had passed some considerable number of days with Miss Grantly in his mother's house
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emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silver flagon, and quaffed it gayly
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I hope to go before you, mother dear. No; let us be gay
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the old grimy shawl in which it was wrapped trailing behind it, and the queer little bonnet dangling at its back
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chopped up with crumbs of bread, seasoned uniquely though not unpleasantly, and baked in a mould--a queer but by no means unpalatable dish
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a very queer society did our honest Colonel gather together in that queer house, so dreary, so dingy, so comfortless, so pleasant
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the bright music of the lutes and the cool music of the fountain, and all faces so happy and gay!
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I don’t think, for the whole twelve months of our good fortune, I had ever felt so gay
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The commission is an honourable one, not without the seasoning of a little real peril; for the country is in a queer state, as you all know
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