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So she descended the three door steps and entered the profaner carriage entrance, where several labourers in white overalls were busily engaged covering the bare brick walls with highly veined marble stucco.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

Then Pete plunged into one of the profaner tunes which he had practised in the days of the cowhouse, and off went Katherine with a whoop.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

The Confraternity was not itself the author or performer of the profaner kind of dramatic performance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

"Man, clod, profaner of the shrine of poesy, cease your ignorant cackle," cried the irate dominie.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

As may be imagined, they were the subject of derision by the profaner wits of the day.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)