Thesaurus / vestal
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The Vestal virgins received especial honor, and were appointed by the Pontifex Maximus.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD"The vestal virgins here are old men," replied Ralph, wickedly pleased to get a joke on the lady.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTHe has now decided to void the virginity of the vestal, and to assume that she was in reality a demon, and not a being of earth.
DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCEARTHUR EDWARD WAITEWho does not remember "Beechenbrook," that pure Vestal in the temple of Mars?
FOUR YEARS IN REBEL CAPITALST. C. DELEONFour or five hours ago she had entered that car as "free from the trammels of passion" as a vestal virgin.
SOUTHERN HEARTSFLORENCE HULL WINTERBURNAmong all the kisses she had given and taken there still remained this first kiss, still vestal and virgin.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESI am a vestal of the temple gifted with clairvoyance, and you use me to foresee the future and learn about other spheres.
A SON OF PERDITIONFERGUS HUMEThe vestal virgins he dismissed, and any house profaned by incense he declared forfeited to the imperial exchequer.
HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, VOLUME I (OF 2)JOHN WILLIAM DRAPERHer full, gentle figure had the charm of the vestal virgin and the wife.
ATLANTISGERHART HAUPTMANNVestal virgins and nuns are all consecrated like the kadeshim to the god, and the god is personified by the priest.
BIBLE STUDIESJOSEPH M. WHEELERWORDS RELATED TO VESTAL
- austere
- celibate
- cherry
- clean
- continent
- controlled
- decent
- decorous
- elegant
- immaculate
- impotent
- inexperienced
- innocent
- intemerate
- modest
- monogamous
- moral
- neat
- nice
- platonic
- proper
- prudish
- pure
- quiet
- refined
- restrained
- simple
- spotless
- stainless
- subdued
- unaffected
- unblemished
- uncontaminated
- undefiled
- unstained
- unsullied
- unwed
- vestal
- virgin
- virtuous
- wholesome
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