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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

It seemed to Billy that he had never seen in any face so virginally young such a tragic seriousness, nor in any eyes, superficially so calm, such a troubled wonder.

From Angel Island by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

The brow was virginally placid, the drooping, bitter mouth alone telling the unhappy husband a story he had never before suspected.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James