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 Morley, John

So she descended the three door steps and entered the profaner carriage entrance, where several labourers in white overalls were busily engaged covering the bare brick walls with highly veined marble stucco.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

Their shoes are high and of many soles, the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated over with a lift of silver, which is fastened with small nails with broad silver heads.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.

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 Sue, Eugène

"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 Campbell, John