How To Use Vestal In A Sentence
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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.
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Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
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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!
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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
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Though Jones had no reason to imagine the lady to have been of the vestal kind when his amour began; yet, as he was thoroughly ignorant of the town, and had very little acquaintance in it, he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue; and who, though some overnice ladies will not be seen with her, is visited (as they term it) by the whole town, in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Priapus-god to whom the Vestal Virgins of Rome, professed tribades, sacrificed, also the neck-charm in phallus-shape.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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“That emperor,” says Symmachus, “suffered the privileges of the vestal virgins to remain inviolate; he bestowed the sacerdotal dignities on the nobles of Rome, granted the customary allowance to defray the expenses of the public rites and sacrifices; and, though he had embraced a different religion, he never attempted to deprive the empire of the sacred worship of antiquity.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Though Jones had no reason to imagine the lady to have been of the vestal kind when his amour began; yet, as he was thoroughly ignorant of the town, and had very little acquaintance in it, he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue; and who, though some over-nice ladies will not be seen with her, is visited (as they term it) by the whole town, in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Later on it occurs to the otherwise gullible Jude that ‘it had been no vestal who chose that missile for opening her attack on him’.
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Lucy, thank you for doing the vestal virgin thing — keeping the flame burning, I mean.
“Mapplethorpe: Polaroids” | clusterflock
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One wonders whether he fathered his daughter Margaret or simply dreamed up this seraph with a tip-tilted nose as he portrayed her in Flamma Vestalis.
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Fig.: "The miffing feast" (Vestalia), mural from Pompeji
7. Profiles
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In the following number of 'Proserpina' I have been tempted to follow, with more minute notice than usual, the 'conditions of adversity' which, as they fret the thistle tribe into jagged malice, have humbled the beauty of the great domestic group of the Vestals into confused likenesses of the
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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Someone assumed that since I am a "linguist", I'd know the meaning of "vestal"--they wanted to know why they're called "vestal virgins.
Teaching and translating
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Other species lured by the Indian summer include the distinctive crimson speckled, the dainty vestal moth and Spoladea recurvalis, an extremely rare tropical species.
Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
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They believe in the Tooth Fairy myth, the myth of the vestal virgin.
Penthouse Founder Bob Guccione Dies At 79
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The projects include $3.8 million to extend the ARTWalk project in Rochester; $3.1 million to preserve a canal motorship in Albany and more than $2 million for the Vestal Rail Trail in Broome County.
Undefined
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This week all over the media yet another presidential vestal intern revealed the details of her sad 50-year-old saga of 18 months worth of sort-of-secret liaisons with JFK of Blessed Memory.
Myra Chanin: Mimi Alford's Hymen Sacrificed on the Altar of History
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The notion often prevails that if there be in the heart this divine witness of God's Spirit, it must needs be perfect, clearly indicating its origin by an exemption from all that besets ordinary human feelings, that it must be a strong, uniform, never flickering, never darkening, and perpetual light, a kind of vestal fire burning always on the altar of the heart!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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pure and vestal modesty
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Three Presteign V-class transports, "Vega," "Vestal," and "Vorga," stood partially raised near the center of the yards, undergoing flaking and replating, as the heat-lightning flicker of torches around "Vorga" indicated.
The Stars My Destination
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Dalisi began to sketch tin pots with stick arms and stick legs, forming characters such as vestal virgins, traffic cops and the Pulcinella-like comedian.
Stars and Stripes
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“As people who believe in a loving God and as followers of the one who is called the Prince of Peace, we confess our loud lament in the midst of this war and the circumstances that have caused it,” said Vestal, who heads the group created in response to the increasingly conservative leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention.
How faiths view the war
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Whether Pope meant the line to be ironic or not, the poem clearly comes down on the side of earthly, physical love and remembering, as opposed to the ‘vestals’ who have never lived at all and have nothing to forget.
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Everyone's stomach is built for passionate wooing-even yours, you cold-blooded young vestal.
THE THORN BIRDS
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vestal virgin
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The title of his film comes from Alexander Pope's poem ‘Eloisa to Abelard’, and the stanza goes: ‘How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
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Greeks and two Gauls to expiate the gallantries of three vestals.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The vestal virgins looked the other way though, when I brought my daughter in, wrapped her in one of the fluffy bathrobes and let her check out the igloo.
Nina Burleigh: Soaking Up Florida
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In conclusion he said: 'Or, comment voulez-vous que quiconque puisse inventer quelque chose de nouveau, moi Spontini declarant ne pouvoir en aucune facon surpasser mes oeuvres precedentes, d'autre part etant avise que depuis la Vestale il n'a point ete ecrit une note qui ne fut volee de mes partitions.'
My Life — Volume 1
