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  • She spends hours playing the piano, constantly goes off for cooling swims, reads "dirty" books with titles like "Les Demi-vierges" ( "The Half-Virgins"), and eventually finds herself passing as much time as possible in the "gentle happy presence" of a composer named Sergei Taneev.

    'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy,' reviewed by Michael Dirda Michael Dirda 2010

  • She spends hours playing the piano, constantly goes off for cooling swims, reads "dirty" books with titles like "Les Demi-vierges" ( "The Half-Virgins"), and eventually finds herself passing as much time as possible in the "gentle happy presence" of a composer named Sergei Taneev.

    'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy,' reviewed by Michael Dirda Michael Dirda 2010

  • ‘Non, non,’ said Ivan Matveitch, smiling and rolling together a pinch of snuff: ‘des fleurs, des jeunes vierges, le culte de la Nature ... ils out eu du bon, ils out eu du bon!’ ...

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • ’ They talk about these demi-vierges in stories—”56

    Chapter 5 1922

  • They talk about these demi-vierges in stories -- ''

    Babbitt 1922

  • Fleurisse, et que plus bas des vierges lentement15

    Sculpteur, cherche avec soin… 1920

  • Des vierges rapportant leurs cruches des fontaines35

    La Cloche du village 1920

  • Les vierges se voilaient et craignaient de mourir.

    Moïse 1920

  • Ils n'ont pas entendu la sinistre remeur Qui monte des hameaux consum閟 par la flamme, Ni les cris des enfants et des vierges en pleurs, Ni le g閙issement des vi閕llards et des femmes!

    Chapter V Solomon Tshekisho 1916

  • Nowadays girls like us are neither bread-and-butter misses nor demi-vierges.

    Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Eug��ne Brieux 1895

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