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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "vestal" in a sentence

    vestal example sentences

    vestal


    1. Within that temple where the vestal flame


    2. even when he was given a sympathy-shag by two ex-communicated vestal


    3. Lady Frances had never married again, Conderley told her, who, without the least intending it, gave the impression that since parting from her husband Fanny had lived an austere single life, suggesting vestal virgins to Audrey, in Charles Street, taken care of by a devoted maid, who would no doubt end in the columns of _The Times_, under the heading Faithful Service


    4. They were dressed as vestal virgins and carried small oil lamps, which they placed in front of me


    5. They were dressed as vestal virgins and carried small oil lamps which they placed in front of me


    6. A vestal virgin might be seduced by flattery


    7. Franz had remained for nearly a quarter of an hour perfectly hidden by the shadow of the vast column at whose base he had found a resting-place, and from whence his eyes followed the motions of Albert and his guides, who, holding torches in their hands, had emerged from a vomitarium at the opposite extremity of the Colosseum, and then again disappeared down the steps conducting to the seats reserved for the Vestal virgins, resembling, as they glided along, some restless shades following the flickering glare of so many ignes-fatui


    8. "Or kill yourself!" said Eugenie (in a tone which a Vestal in the amphitheatre would have used, when urging the victorious gladiator to finish his vanquished adversary)


    9. School of his father; but she would probably be open to conviction on that point; she was a regular church-goer of simple faith; honest-hearted, receptive, intelligent, graceful to a degree, chaste as a vestal, and, in personal appearance, exceptionally beautiful


    10. Fantine had the long, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden pin

    11. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, a potpourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called The Vestal; the trees shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by spectres


    12. At a fair vestal, throned by the west,


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    Synonyms for "vestal"

    vestal pure virgin virginal virtuous

    "vestal" definitions

    a chaste woman


    of or relating to Vesta


    in a state of sexual virginity