Example Sentences

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I confess to an almost religious veneration for trailing drapery, and I pin my vestural faith with unflinching obstinacy to sweeping petticoats.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

The honor of vestural France will be saved on the day that gray hats with round crowns can be made to cost a hundred francs.

From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott