virgin forest

Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.

However, they were not seen to venture far into the surrounding deciduous forest.

The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”

I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.

She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?