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Four or five hours ago she had entered that car as "free from the trammels of passion" as a vestal virgin.
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Her full, gentle figure had the charm of the vestal virgin and the wife.
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Their mother was a vestal virgin,—that is, she was a maiden who tended the sacred fire in the temple of the goddess Vesta.
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From the marble and fresco decorations found here, these rooms were most probably the apartment of the High Vestal Virgin.
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"Many thanks," drawled the vestal virgin, who was still looking into her coffee cup.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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