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Like white breed or white sugar people simple want they goods "clean" and in a virgin-like colour.
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Like white breed or white sugar people simple want they goods "clean" and in a virgin-like colour.
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She had previously made a respectful virgin-like curtsey to the gentleman, and her modest eyes gazed so perseveringly on the carpet that it was a wonder how she should have found an opportunity to see him.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Such conduct is not virgin-like, but if thou wilt, she shall come, with her noble face suffused with modesty.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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She had previously made a respectful virgin-like curtsey to the gentleman, and her modest eyes gazed so perseveringly on the carpet that it was a wonder how she should have found an opportunity to see him.
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Antheric, the noble pastor, with his virgin-like face, led three hundred footmen into the fight and slew six hundred of the _acephali_.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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They still managed to find a small thread of fresh voice, and their pale countenances, ruffled by brutal caresses, became tenderly coloured with virgin-like blushes, while their great impure eyes filled with moisture.
Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871
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Whether it ever evoked any warmer dream or vision during those calm, cold, virgin-like spring nights, when even the moon and the greater planets retreated into the icy blue, steel-like firmament, I cannot say.
Found at Blazing Star Bret Harte 1869
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In that rare, tender, virgin-like pastoral Evangeline.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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The virgin-like dignity with which she moved, so untainted by a breath of scandal, amid salons in which the envy of virtues doubted sought to bring innocence itself into doubt, warmed into a genuine reverence the cynicism of his professed creed.
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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