"Profaner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its rivulets run with blood. Six months ago I was Abbot of Scone. Because I refused to betray my trust, and resign the archives of the kingdom lodged there, Edward, the rebel-anointed of the Lord! the profaner of the sanctuary! sent his emissaries to sack the convent, to tear the holy pillow of Jacob from its shrine, and to wrest from my grasp the records I refused to deliver. All was done as the usurper commanded. ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... in religion as well as in society, the official censures of the Church and the protests of every divine since Catharinus were ineffectual. Much of the profaner criticism uttered by such authorities as the Cardinal de Retz, Voltaire, Frederic the Great, Daunou, and Mazzini is not more convincing or more real. Linguet was not altogether wrong in suggesting that the assailants knew ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... where. vara (r, var pl. voro, varit), to be. vara, tag dig till —, beware, look out. varann, varannan, each other, every other. varda (vart, vorden), begin to be, become. varenda, every. varfr, why. varg i veum, outlaw, profaner of the temple. varhelst, wherever. varifrn, whence. varje, every. varligen, carefully. varm, warm. varmed, whereby. varn|a (-ade, -at), to warn. varning (-en, -ar), warning. vars, whose. varsam, cautious. varthelst, ...
— Fritiofs Saga • Esaias Tegner
... with an unwonted Severity in his Eyes and Voice, what he could answer for himself? calling him Profaner of his Sacred Vows, and Infamy to the Holy Order; the injur'd, but innocently accus'd, only reply'd: 'May Heaven forgive that bad Woman, and bring her to Repentance! For his Part, he was not so much in Love with Life, as to use ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn |
