virginally
- a word derived from virginal.
Example Sentences
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It should be issued as a crisp, virginally white stand-alone volume, available in the lobbies of better hotels worldwide.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2011
Grossberg combined suggestions of both in The Diver, 1931, an exceedingly odd image of an empty diving suit, virginally white, standing pathetically within the rushing perspective of a glass-walled Gropius-type factory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strapping Jack Montague—as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth—looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada.
From Time Magazine Archive
Millner, as mechanically, took one of the virginally cinctured cigars, and began to undo its wrappings.
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith
So clear she shone that in imagination one could reach up and run a finger along her hard bright edge; and under moon and stars a land-breeze, virginally cool, played on our two riders' cheeks.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
