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

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

"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

Yet sometimes, as in elder days, We come before the painter's eye, Or fix the sculptor's eager gaze, With no profaner witness nigh.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Your gentle heart, my girl, is too pure and holy a shrine to afford refuge to a rebel, and a profaner of woman's sacred rights.”

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George