unprofaned

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What will be left of good or worshipful, Of spiritual secrets, mysteries, Of fair religion's guarded heritage, Heirlooms of soul, passed downward unprofaned From eldest Ind?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

Christmas found them at Le Trayas, on the Esterelles coast, an isolated paradise unprofaned by sight or sound of the noisy, restless life of the French Riviera.

From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud

This is no region for tourists and women, only for a few elk and bear hunters at times, and its unprofaned freshness gives me new life.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

He thought this was a paving of the way to Annunziata's own unprofaned chamber; but it was Heaven's will that this vileness should recoil on the head of him who devised it.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

It is what Italy might 385 be in a golden age—her ruins rebuilt into the transparent air, her woods unprofaned, her people pastoral and refined, and every valley a landscape of Arcadia.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker