vestal virgin
贞女,贞洁的处女,圣女,贞操女
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- : one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
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The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!
And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.
Are we going to see you on a Virgin Galactic or SpaceX flight in the future?
It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.
Her long-term boyfriend Dave Clark is head of ‘astronaut relations’ for Virgin Galactic.
The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.
She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.
Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.