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Example sentences for: vestal

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The Nonomiya Shrine is uniquely renowned for its special role in preparing imperial princesses to serve as vestal virgins at the Grand Shrine of Ise, Japan’s most important Shinto shrine (see page 9).
In the circular Temple of Vesta, the sacred flame perpetuating the Roman state was tended by six Vestal Virgins who, from childhood, observed a 30-year vow of chastity on fear of being buried alive if they broke it.
Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.
-- Norman T. Burns Vestal, N.Y.