profaner

Example Sentences

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Then Pete plunged into one of the profaner tunes which he had practised in the days of the cowhouse, and off went Katherine with a whoop.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

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

"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

"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

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 Bramah, Ernest