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Frivolity, base appetite, contempt, are exorcised, and Man and Woman appear again, in unprofaned connection, as brother and sister, children and servants of one Divine Love, and pilgrims to a common aim.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret

Why should he betake himself to a subterranean crypt, as if it were the only holy ground in all the world which he had left unprofaned?

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

Sacred be this shrine; And unprofaned, by ruder hands, the stone That owes its honours to thy deathless name.'

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

The Long Portico, with its columns, monuments, and inscriptions, remains also untouched by the flames and unprofaned by any violence from the wanton soldiery.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William




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