Light became a popular means for 15th-century Northern painters to represent the mystery of the virgo intacta ".
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The Mahabharata abridges the story, noting only two wishes for Satyavati : her " virgo intacta " and everlasting sweet fragrance.
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After some time Madame Schreck sells Fevvers to a customer, " Christian Rosencreutz ", who wishes to sacrifice a winged'virgo intacta'in order to procure his own immortality.
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However he is also intrigued by Mendoza, who shows sexual sophistication despite being " virgo intacta "-apparently the healing capability of the cyborg physiology has gone to extremes in her.
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The land surrounding Skerton remained more or less'Virgo intacta', an exception being made when half a Plough-land was granted to William De Skerton, ( Reeve from 1201 to 1202 ), to be held by this Serjeanty.
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:" But, " I continued, " are these maids willing or unwilling parties to the transaction that is, are they really maiden, not merely in being each a virgo intacta in the physical sense, but as being chaste girls who are not consenting parties to their seduction ? " He looked surprised at my question, and then replied emphatically : " Of course they are rarely willing, and as a rule they do not know what they are coming for . " " But, " I said in amazement, " then do you mean to tell me that in very truth actual rapes, in the legal sense of the word, are constantly being perpetrated in London on unwilling virgins, purveyed and procured to rich men at so much a head by keepers of brothels ? " " Certainly, " said he, " there is not a doubt of it . " " Why, " I exclaimed, " the very thought is enough to raise hell . " " It is true, " he said; " and although it ought to raise hell, it does not even raise the neighbours ."