Word: intacta
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...dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...
...engagement and wedding rings into a trunk and jumped. The police released Confectioner Siaperas, but the inquest went on. The bride's honor in question, her family invoked church law, called three doctors. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter N. Hatzis examined the body of Mrs. Siaperas, pronounced her virgo intacta...
...British public knows with absolute certainty that Miss Savidge is an innocent young woman. She has submitted herself to the scrutiny of the person from whom she had most to fear, the Medical Examiner of Scotland Yard, and has been certified to be a "virgo intacta"-fact duly chronicled by the whole British press...