Meanings of vestal virgins in English

If the vestal virgins turn down their thumbs, that's another matter.

The office of the vestal virgins in Rome was to preserve the holy fire.

He also granted the vestal virgins all the benefits enjoyed by women who had children.

Let the vestal virgins, he says, retain their privileges.

Fifteen hundred years ago these nuns would have made excellent vestal virgins, watchful and resigned.

What was the duty of the vestal virgins?

Thus Julius Cæsar is said to have intrusted his testament to the oldest of the vestal virgins.

One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.

Do you desire to live forever apart from women, as the vestal virgins live apart from men?

Vesta was the goddess of the home, and the vestal virgins were bound by oath never to marry.

To the vestal virgins he granted seats in the theatre, reserved for them only, opposite the praetor's bench.

Hardly are seven vestal virgins received.

Pimpernel Schley was alone, but she moved as if she were leading a quiet procession of vestal virgins.

The vestal virgins, whose duty it was to keep the fire burning on the altar in the temple of Vesta.

So many persons, in fact, deserted that the vestal virgins prayed in the name of the sacrifices that their desertions might be restrained.

With the most vociferous emphasis the master expressed intense dissatisfaction with the apathetic demeanour of our populace during the procession of vestal virgins.