vestal virgin
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The story of the vestal virgin Claudia Quinta represents one such instance.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
His father was a "lunger," and ex-professor from the East; his mother a vestal virgin dedicated to keeping the home fires burning.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will follow the lead of Byron, who, in his horror at the popularisation of the waltz, declared that Terpsichore was henceforth "the least a vestal virgin of the Nine."
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
She had a half-sister, probably older than herself, of the name of Fabia, who was a vestal virgin.
From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church
Fantine had the long, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden pin.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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