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Both, therefore, left them to themselves; and we, in like manner, must allow that delicious interview to be sacred only to themselves, and unprofaned by the gaze or presence of a spectator.

From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

How save the ark, Or holy of holies, unprofaned a day From his unscrupulous curiosity That handles everything as if to buy, 560 Tossing aside what fabrics delicate Suit not the rough-and-tumble of his ways?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

From the gloom and chill below I had come up into the pure air and sunset light, and the glory of the unprofaned works of God.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

She suggested the proper thing to do would be to buy a new black dress unprofaned by visits to the upper boxes.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

Why should he betake himself to a subterranean crypt, as if it were the only holy ground in all the world which he had left unprofaned?

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David