profaner
Example Sentences
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In the region of profaner things the two friends canvass the comparative worth of Sallust and of Tully's Epistles.
From Burke by John Morley
It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
He threatened to denounce me to the high priest as a profaner of the holy days, and to have me thrown into prison!'
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Eugène Sue
To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
"Man, clod, profaner of the shrine of poesy, cease your ignorant cackle," cried the irate dominie.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
