Example Sentences

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Here was the virgin and unprofaned loveliness of Nature.

From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic

The workmen who were putting the place in repair were lunching near the casino, in a litter of lumber and other structural material, but the casino itself seemed as yet unprofaned by their touch.

From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean

They have really wise and worthy views of the artist's avocation; if they remain true to them, they will enjoy a free, serene existence, unprofaned by undue care or sentimental sorrow.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

This is no region for tourists and women, only for a few elk and bear hunters at times, and its unprofaned freshness gives me new life.

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

Even from your vices Arbaces distills his pleasures—pleasures unprofaned by vulgar eyes—pleasures vast, wealthy, inexhaustible, of which your enervate minds, in their unimaginative sensuality, cannot conceive or dream!

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron