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Breaking spines is complete sacriledge in my book (LOL) but then I'm rather ... pedantic ... about dog earing the corners.
Countdown to Angels' Blood: Devon Monk - Magic in the Blood ARC Nalini Singh 2009
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His voice was one of many and as the cartoon truthfully points out part of the majority that wanted that sacriledge of a war to end and yet it never did.
“No Regrets…?” a cartoon by Ryan Alexander-Tanner (ohyesverynice.com) 2008
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For a person to allude to scripture is not to say they ARE scripture, which would be sacriligeous, or Christians would be committing sacriledge all the time, its to see examples of where God has helped people thorugh their own human story, and ours, and hers, no less.
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If your horse dies it it is time to put it down and you feel it is sacriledge to eat it, fine, bury your nag in a 30,000 dollar rosewood coffin for all I care.
"Does the United States really want to be a country that sends horses to slaughter, here or abroad?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Reply great haiku, great window, great story … like a (no sacriledge intended …) trinity of greatness by susanlavonne
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(I know this is sacriledge, but the In-N-Out fries weren't very good, and the fries are a big part of the experience for me).
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As, falling into the hands of Justice, with the body of Scannadio upon his backe, and being condemned for sacriledge, in robbing graves of the dead; either to be burned, or otherwise so punished, as might make him hatefull to his best friends, and meerely a shame to himselfe.
The Decameron 2004
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But to returne to their sacriledge/in which thei do take away one parte of the sacrament.
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Paule/dyd reproue moste shãfull faultes in the Iues/that they wolde haue kepte in silence so greate and haynous a sacriledge as this: surelie if it hade bene so/they wolde haue reproued yt.
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These sacrificers therfore in taking awaye of the cupp frõ the people they do committ most shamefull sacriledge.
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