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  • And his explosive diagnosis proved to be as correct as it was utterly unprofane in spirit.

    Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

  • "Better" -- and these are his concluding words -- "better that all civilized people should go back to the forests of barbarism than that they should disgrace humanity and culture by denying to the Jew the comradeship in social life, in citizenship and in religion to which his unprofane belief in God, his highly developed intelligence and his patriotism entitled him."

    The Jews and Patriotism 1916

  • But their tumult wore upon him, and he decided to avail himself of the recent decision whereby a big H was rendered innocuous and unprofane.

    Penrod 1914

  • But their tumult wore upon him, and he decided to avail himself of the recent decision whereby a big H was rendered innocuous and unprofane.

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • It appeared, by what I could piece together of the unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare customers for prophylactics and tooth-wash.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • That downy bloom of happiness, which unfaithful and ignoble poets have persisted in declaring always vanished at the touch and wear of life, is delicate and fresh as ever, and must remain so if we remain unprofane.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • There was a tremendous ejaculation from Miles Hendon-not altogether unprofane-followed by:

    The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882

  • It appeared, by what I could piece together of the unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • It appeared, by what I could piece together of the unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • Zie made sexuality for everyone to be able to enjoy, not just the people who fit some arbitrary level of "unprofane enough."

    Gay/Lesbian Forum 2010

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