Meanings of wise virgins in English

The answer of the wise virgins has been said to be cold and unfeeling.

We see the wise virgins within and the foolish without.

So he was ready, like the wise virgins of parable.

The Gospel says that these wise virgins were five.

True enough, the English when they travel are as the wise virgins, and secure the best places.

Edith is one of the wise virgins we read of-shehas chosen by long odds the better part.

The five wise virgins-ofthe East?

The lamp which the five wise virgins bear is the same as the light which the consistent Christian is.

There is the parable which tells of the tarrying of the bridegroom till even the wise virgins slumbered and slept.

The wise virgins represent those who make a profession of faith in the light of truth and in the love of it.

They had so long been silent, holding themselves in readiness, like the wise virgins in the Bible, and now at last it was coming!

Beneath the cloud, at one side, sat the wise virgins, good Flemings, with their lighted lamps, and sang canticles as they turned the spinning wheel.

The Street of the Wise Virgins was not near the Palace.

The sisterhood of the Five Wise Virgins, newly organized, inhabit beautiful and commodious edifices adjacent.

The Wise Virgins are Bernard Shaw women who know what they want in the way of husbands and go to it.

Philosophia is accompanied by the liberal arts, represented as Seven Wise Virgins; the world by Power, Pleasure, Dignity, Fame and Fortune.