Sentence example with the word 'vestals'

vestals

Last update: October 3, 2015


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The Code deals with a class of persons devoted to the service .of a god, as vestals or hierodules.   [Please select]

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Two Dublin vestals, Stephen said, elderly and pious, have lived fifty and fiftythree years in Fumbally's lane.   [Please select]

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The vestals also, whose sole intervention put an end to all violence, did not spare their prayers.   [Please select]

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Poppæa, not finding the virgo magna, who with other vestals was at the house of Vatinius, returned soon to the Palatine.   [Please select]

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Cæsar himself bet; priests, vestals, senators, knights bet; the populace bet.   [Please select]

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Meanwhile Cæsar gave a signal to the slave torch-bearers, and left the Circus; after him followed vestals, senators, dignitaries, and Augustians.   [Please select]

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The pontiffs uttered the cry of sacrilege, and it became the duty of the vestals to begin the mysteries anew.   [Please select]

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[786] The vestals enjoyed great privileges: if they met by chance a criminal on his way to execution, he was set at liberty.   [Please select]

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On the upper seats half the signs were for death, and half for mercy; but the retiarius looked only at the box of Cæsar and the vestals, waiting for what they would decide.   [Please select]

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Tears appeared on the lids of the vestals; the people listened in silence before they burst into a long unbroken storm of applause.   [Please select]

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