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How to use Vestal in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Vestal? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It was the punishment stipulated for Vestal Virgins found guilty of sexual misconduct.
I have paid my devotions today both to the successor to St Peter and to the Vestal Virgins, who have no one left to remember them.
The punishment for lost chastity of a Vestal Virgin was live burial, because that was considered the best way to kill them without spilling their blood.
Octavian forcibly entered the temple of the Vestal Virgins and seized Antony's secret will, which he promptly publicized.
In 87, Vestal Virgins were found to have broken their sacred vows of lifelong public chastity.
It is also possible that Vestal Virgins were starved when found guilty of breaking their vows of celibacy.
The threat against him was lifted by the intervention of his mother's family, which included supporters of Sulla, and the Vestal Virgins.
When back in Rome, Caesar deposited a new will with the Vestal Virgins, naming Octavius as the prime beneficiary.
The most scandalous marriage of all was to one of the sacred Vestal Virgins.
Previously entrance to temples had been the reserve of priests and Vestal Virgins.
The planning committee could sing 'Like A Virgin' after being dubbed Vestal Virgins by the deputy leader.
You knew you weren't jumping into bed with the last of the Vestal Virgins and Dee's experience was part of the turn on, wasn't it?
Numa Pompilius the second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus, began Rome's building projects with his royal palace the Regia and the complex of the Vestal virgins.
Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
There are more than one million drivers in Cairo all eager to meet the seventy vestal virgins waiting for them.
This may not involve vestal virgins but you are likely to be able to bag the best room at the Out-Of-Town Conference Chain Hotel.
Examples from Classical Literature
The punishment of a Vestal Virgin for incontinence was death.
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
This was carried into the temple by the vestal virgin and the sacred fire was rekindled.
So it is when the literary deities, vestal or otherwise, return to their Stratfords.
She should have been a vestal virgin, and moved about surrounded by sanctities.
So he hired assassins to kill the boy, and the girl, Sylvia, he doomed to be a vestal virgin.
That is the vestal hearth of the Wendish house, without which there would be no home.
The noble and simple lines of the peplum restored her resemblance to some ancient Athenian vestal.
One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.
Her full, gentle figure had the charm of the vestal virgin and the wife.
The legal rights of a vestal virgin were set forth in detail.
For ten years they were taught the duties of a vestal virgin.
The scene changes to the vestal sanctuary in Priam's palace.
In ancient Egypt, an inebriated charioteer is apprehended after running down a vestal virgin of the goddess Hathor.
And whether or not we recognize that she is a Roman vestal virgin, we can sense her indecision.
Would you trust Andy Goram, Alan Rough,Frank McAvennie and Charlie Nicholas with a vestal virgin let alone a bottle of vodka?
In such cases these women were made vestal Virgins in the temples.
In such carpenta may the vestal virgins have ascended the Capitol.
There is something divine in every vestal, and Rubria is very beautiful.
Why can a vestal virgin become an heir, while her mother cannot?
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