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
These terrors, however, terminated in this, that Oppia, a vestal virgin, being found guilty of a breach of chastity, suffered punishment.
From Roman History, Books I-III by Livius, Titus
A betrothed maiden defended by tapu was as sacred as a vestal virgin of Rome; a shrine became a Holy Place; the head of a chief something which it was sacrilege to lay hands on.
From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember
