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
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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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
And, if sanctity alone is to be the ground of immunity, what are we to think of the punishment of a vestal virgin?
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
