vestal

How To Use vestal In A Sentence

• Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
• Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
• Called Aquavana Thermal Suites, this over-the-top pampering den is a temple of female bodily bliss, tended by Latina vestal virgins with long flowing hair. Nina Burleigh: Soaking Up Florida
• The Roman Vestals enjoyed great privileges but, charged with keeping alight the flames of the fire which sustained the Roman state, were severely punished if the fire subsided.
• In the same year more bronze coins sestertii were minted with an image of a carpentum, a wheeled carriage harnessed to mules previously reserved for the exclusive use of the Vestal Virgins. Caesars’ Wives
• Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd. Heatwave brings rare moths to UK
• Draconidæ out of the groups belonging to the dark Kora, and placing them next the Vestals, with the Monachæ between; for indeed Linaria and several other Draconid forms are entirely innocent and beautiful, and even the Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
• Three Presteign V-class transports, Vega, Vestal and Vorga stood partially raised near the centre of the yards, undergoing flaking and replating, as the heat-lighting flicker of torches around Vorga indicated. Tiger! Tiger!
• Draconids, and cannot be rightly attached to either; for it is Draconid in structure and affinity -- Vestal in form -- and I don't see how to get the connection of the three families rightly expressed without taking the Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers