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Updated: June 5, 2025
Beevor had work to do in the world: even if it chiefly consisted in profaning sylvan retreats by smug or pretentious villas, it was still work which entitled him to consideration and respect in the eyes of all right-minded persons.
Why, Robert, it would be just as absurd for me to be wheeled back in that chair as for you to be and besides I have no right to do that now. It would be a sacrilege, profaning the gratitude in my heart I am cured and these poor people here must see that I am cured Robert, we must leave that wheel-chair here that others, poor sufferers who will come now, will see and believe and be cured too.
The next day his little child, being left alone for some hours, was drowned in an uncovered well in the cellar of his house. "The father freely, in open congregation, did acknowledge it the righteous hand of God for his profaning his holy day." Visitors and travellers from other countries were forced to obey the rigid laws with regard to Saturday-night observance.
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. But though Nehemiah began by rebuking the nobles, he did not stop here. He took up the matter with a high hand. He commanded the gate-keepers to shut the gates on Friday evening, about half-an-hour earlier than usual.
At his side, profaning horrible, obscene oaths staggered Mike Sabota.
"'T is wrong of me, I'm thinking, but I take you as a man takes Heaven, and we'll do the work together. 'T is as though I had risen from the dead and the gates of pearl were open, with all the angels of God beckoning me in." In the exaltation that was upon him, he had no thought of profaning her by a touch. She stood apart from him as something high and holy, enthroned in a sacred place.
She sprang from his profaning grasp with a cry of terror, and fled towards the door it was locked! The gentleman laughed, and said "No, no, my pretty bird, you cannot escape from your cage so easily; and why should you wish to?
He can then sneer at your people of quality, and having sufficient cause, prepare himself for a speech of extraordinary eloquence, in which he need have no fear of profaning, for his hearers will stand amazed, and think how mighty a thing it is to be a hero.
He respects and protects woman from the same instinct which makes him shrink from profaning an altar or robbing a church, or sends him on his knees before any apparition supposedly divine.
While Serafina and Madam Clement caressed the amiable Charlotte, the rest of the company congratulated her admirer upon his choice and success, though the clergyman could not help reprehending him for profaning the sacerdotal habit.
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