profaner
Example Sentences
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It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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
"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 Verne, Jules
"Where are you going, unhappy profaner of ecclesiastical psalmody?"
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
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
