How To Use Virginal In A Sentence
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It gives me pleasure to draw the picture of those ideal amours which every warm-blooded youth of twenty has at one time or other cherished in his thoughts; to substitute virginal charms and graces for vice and harlotry -- and after the manner of those charming heathen poets who have so often filled our dreams with their fancies, to mingle the anacreontic with the idyllic.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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she was intact, virginal
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Spike pressed ahead regardless, scrubbing a virginal white spot into the dingy patio.
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men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
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The musicians playing the virginal, the dulcimer, and the trilling shalm were familiar, but Gord couldn't recall their names.
Night Arrant
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nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage
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I bet York architect Phil Bixby and North Yorkshire garden designer Rosie Allisstone don't have acres of virginal white space in their diaries.
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_To bed, to bed_ was the burden of it to be played with accompanable concent upon the virginals.
Ulysses
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Melody, harmony, and rhythm became as important to music as plainsong and counterpoint, and the arts of ornamentation and virtuoso extemporization thrived among the virginalists, and among the lute and consort players.
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Let's go back to the, like, virginal innocence thing, because that can be cool too.
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Guess has, rather ironically given their image, always been good at the sweet virginal print—try their "Lou Lou" romper £89 in a black floral-print with a racer back.
Spring's Prints Charming?
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Both Diana and Jemima married at a young, impressionable age to men who decided their brides ‘fitted the bill’ as virginal sweet young things.
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They must be seen to remain chaste and virginal at all times.
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The child's puppet dolls are miniatures of herself and Miss Jessel, dangled menacingly over the canopy of the big four-poster bed where the virginal new governess endures her fevered nightmares.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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The virginal Mina (Cindy Marie Small) is no shrinking violent and is understandably exasperated by the Victorian prudishness of fiancé Jonathan Harker.
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I read a large amount of news online, but I still practice an almost ritualistic reading of the physical paper; so much so that I get antsy when some else reads my virginal paper before I get to it.
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She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas.
The Certain Hour
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The virginal mind is innocent in the positive sense.
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Virginals are foursquare and sharp-angled and straight-sided, nothing more than boxes, really.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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Two young men of familiar acquaintance, who delighted much in musicke, because themselves therein were somwhat expert, as on the virginals, bandora, lute and such like: were one eventing at a common inne of this town (as I have heard) where the one of them shewed his skil on the virginals to the no little contentment of the hearers.
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking
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Then she bade bring food and there came four damsels, high-bosomed girls and virginal, who set before us food and fruits and confections and flowers and wine, such as befit none save kings.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The pieces in Musicks Hand-maide are transcriptions of such music, played here on the virginals.
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The profane love of woman presented itself to my fancy, clothed, not only with all its own charms, but with the sovereign and almost irresistible charms of the most dangerous of all temptationof that which the moralists call virginal temptationwhen the mind, not yet undeceived by experience and by sin, pictures to itself in the transports of love a supreme and ineffable delight immeasurable superior to all reality.
IX. Part II.—Paralipomena
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On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood.
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It promises to be a wacky race featuring disguises and masks and neo-virginal veils of innocence.
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In Chaplin's film it is love at first sight and the tramp will do anything he can to help the blind heroine. They both have the innocence of schoolchildren, and theirs is the virginal dream of love, not the reality.
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He peels the spuds, digs the garden and with a virginal innocence shifts his affections from the daughter to the mother; yet he is also quietly scathing about the journeyman daubs of his fellow lodger.
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Finally, no Shakespeare student will deny that some general help is necessary, when Schmidt's admirable Lexicon commits itself to such a misleading statement as that a virginal is a kind of small pianoforte, and when a very distinguished Shakespeare scholar has allowed a definition of a viol as a six-stringed guitar to appear in print under his name.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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When the spinet was of very small dimensions it was called a virginal; when it was in the shape of our modern grand piano, it was, of course,
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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they suddenly shift the focus of the movie onto the repressed sexuality of the virginal young Lucy.
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To this group belonged the virginal, or virginals, the clavicembalo, the harpsichord, or clavecin, and the spinet.
For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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Complex solo lute and keyboard works became virtuoso showpieces, culminating in the brilliant sets of variations in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
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Thus Fool offenceless shall lie defenceless at thy mercy and, so lying, sleep until joyous day shall banish thy so virginal fears!
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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Ever since I have studied women, my incognita is the only one whose virginal bosom, whose ardent and voluptuous forms, have realized for me the only woman of my dreams
The Thirteen
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Even as I said it, though, I realised that there are trains that slice through glittering virginal snowscapes - and I've even been on some of them.
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Working in a largely male-dominated office, the arrival of any new female face, let alone a young, innocent and possibly virginal one, is greeted with much excitement.
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She was waiting for him in a bed of an obscenely virginal white lace and satin.
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The everlasting snow which looks so virginal, is in fact distinctly grimy when you get close to it.
As I Please
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Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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You see, geek girls are such a rarity that few of them remain virginal - the choices are so many ...
Some things defy belief.
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With those five words, Lili managed simultaneously to convey exhaustion, indomitable, spirited arrogance, and shocked, virginal modesty.
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The so-called virginal reproduction (Parthenogenesis) offers an interesting form of transition from sexual reproduction to the non-sexual formation of germ-cells which most resembles it ....
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
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If we treat the word virginal as meaning purity, then the birth of her gifted son (sun) was due to her positive nature: she was pure at heart, as the fields were pure to plant upon.
Derek Beres: A Light is Born: Jesus, Jeremiah and Sam
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Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.
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No need to shield your virginal eyes, the nude figures have been laboriously obscured.
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The girls are playing appropriate instruments of the period, such as the viola da gamba, cittern, dulcimer, rebec, clarion, viola d'amore and virginal, but their brand of beauty is strictly 20th century.
The Golden Age of Publicity #7
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And so my virginal encounter with cevapcici, and likely yours, took place at one of Chicago's summer street festivals.
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Some Flemish ‘mother and child’ virginals were made effectively double-manual by having a small 4 virginals tucked away in a drawer beside the keyboard.
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Before the sackbut, before the virginal struck perpendicular chords, our madrigals were sublime, loosing harmonies to unhinge the spheres.
Strange Bedfellows
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The ex-wife turned up, alone, in an outfit best described as virginal white (the bride, on her second marriage was obviously not in white).
Army Rumour Service
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Millner, as mechanically, took one of the virginally cinctured cigars, and began to undo its wrappings.
The Blond Beast
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Burmeister's version ends happily, but not without Siegfried struggling in the water, coming up for air, and with Odile restored to her virginal white draperies.
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virginal white dresses
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Chorus sacratus martirum confessio sacerdotum et virginalis castitas nos a peccatis abluant.
November 1: The Feast of All Saints
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The virginals in Vermeer's The Music Lesson are recognizable as instruments created by the firm of Ruckers, and the standard dimensions of their design are used as a cross-check by Steadman for the dimensions of the room as a whole.
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The studio hushed it up to preserve her virginal image.
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Reader's warning: this article uses unsavory language and is not recommended for virginal ears.
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He was smiling to himself as he looked up into her virginal face, so innocent, so penetratingly innocent, that its purity seemed always to enter into him, driving out of him all dross and bathing him in some ethereal effulgence that was as cool and soft and velvety as starshine.
Chapter 14
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The Musical Director tried out some tunes on the virginals but none of them was up to much until they came to this one.
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With those five words, Lili managed simultaneously to convey exhaustion, indomitable, spirited arrogance, and shocked, virginal modesty.
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Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Because, in a few words, the dispute between Russia and Georgia for domination in South Ossetia and Abkhazia wasn't virginal generation - actually, it was born as a result of Kosovo's independence, as another one affirmation of the incontrollable consequences that prejudiced support of independence movements can have.
Opening Pandora's box of national sovereignty?
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As a result, a number of works previously thought to be by Vermeer were deattributed, including Young Woman Seated at the Virginals.
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
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Ornamental umbels are represented by the delicately virginal Queen Anne's lace, which can grow to monstrous proportions if supported among other plants in the flower border and makes a surprisingly good cut flower.
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Somehow she'd always been a child in his mind, pure and virginal.
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White pups on white snow are seen as symbols of virginal nature, threatened by a hunter with upraised club.
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In fact when we first meet her she seems quite virginal.
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But Mrs Lucas often spent some of her rare leisure moments in the smoking-parlour, playing on the virginal that stood in the window, or kippering herself in the fumes of the wood-fire as with streaming eyes she deciphered an Elzevir
Queen Lucia
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The asparagus was limp and braised, which is fine - there's no law against it - but part of the majesty of the white variety is how fresh and virginal it tastes when it's just been blanched, not had the hell stewed out of it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There could be no miracle of the virginal conception without the work of the Third person of the Trinity.
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The labiaplasty-clipping the lips for a symmetrical, neat shape; the vaginoplasty-general rejuvenation of the vagina area including tightening; and lastly, popular amongst born again Christians is the hymenorrhaphy-the surgical reconstruction of the hymen so you are biologically virginal-because that 30-second teenage blood-hump was so magical the first time round that for some reason you want to relive it.
Vice Magazine
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
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The pieces in Musicks Hand-maide are transcriptions of such music, played here on the virginals.
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Instead they had to encounter the art by becoming surrogate members of other communities, or sing madrigals or play viols or the virginals at home.
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It could stay holy, sacrosanct, totally uncorrupted and virginal if it wasn't for us humans washing everything over with arrogance.
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Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.
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Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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It might be that Lady Seated at the Virginals is a composite of tracings of parts of images onto planes at different distances and with different positions of the lens.
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Somehow she'd always been a child in his mind, pure and virginal.
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The third virtue central to the sangang doctrine is jie or chastity (preserving the marital fidelity of the wife or the virginal purity of an unmarried woman).
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As for me, spinsters have no need for virginal innocence.
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It's a chest of whistles, it's a set of virginals, it's just about anything you want to make of it.
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Go deep into the jungle with the world's most beautiful women and share the virginal vastness and musky moistness of the Dark Continent.
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The canvases are virtually identical in size, and besides the common subject matter and the same virginals, the two ladies - or is it one and the same lady? - even wear the identical dress, with an added overskirt for Lady Seated…
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The end of the rite is a year early, and virginal women have gathered to burn their tassels in the presence of the King who is expected to choose his 17th wife from the maidens.
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Dressed in virginal white, eight young girls executed endless parans and moved fluidly across the stage in a piece titled Nritta, or pure dance.
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Each face is conjured from eloquent pencil lines and blurs of paint against a virginal white swath of satin, hung vertically like an iconic banner.
