profaner
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To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
But I own that what tended most to restore my courage, and really increased my physical powers, was the profaner oracle of my beloved Ariosto:— "Between the end of October and the beginning of November."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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
"And as a proof," added the clerk, "here are the shoes of the profaner of the temple;" and he placed a pair of shoes upon the desk as he spoke.
From Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
If, however," continued the dispassionate Being, "the profaner is left to himself he will, sooner or later, in the ordinary course of human intelligence, become involved in some disaster of his own contriving.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
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