vestal virgin
Example Sentences
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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
Tom lighted them a blazing fire every day, and tended it during their absence with the care of a vestal virgin, so they were extremely cosy and jolly there.
From Monitress Merle by Brazil, Angela
She seemed a vestal virgin, in her long, clinging dress of white wool, with a scarf thrown about her head and throat.
From A Village Ophelia and Other Stories by Aldrich, Anne Reeve
She should be the vestal virgin in the Christian temple—the priestess, as it were, of a shrine more hallowed and honorable than that of Delphos.
From The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies by Lady, An American
