92 examples of desecration in sentences

I am so abominably in love with you that it seemed a sort of desecration when the man lugged your name into a discussion of money-matters.

" Indeed, it seemed to her flat desecration that Musgrave should have brought his former mistress into this hallowed plot of ground.

From the first period of the desecration of the catacombs, the engraved tablets that had closed the graves were almost as much an object of the greed of pious or superstitious marauders as the more immediate relics of the saints.

No writer of genius has yet been inspired to narrate the heroic deeds enacted, the pain, privation, anguish, borne joyfully to save "that city of the Italian soul" from desecration by the foreigner.

It seemed a desecration of its awfulness to find comfort in anything but the highest and the deepest.

It was gone, but its voices seemed to have left gaping wounds across the violated air, and the trees to wear a look of desecration.

Impiety N. impiety; sin &c 945; irreverence; profaneness &c adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing &c v..

He hobbled about on crutches for a while, a pensioner of the Medici family, and dying at the age of seventy-eight was buried in Ognissanti, but without a tombstone for fear of desecration by the enemies of Savonarola's adherents.

The desecration of the Sabbath was a greater evil to society than any tyrant could inflict.

It would seem like a desecration for any hand but her own to touch those things.

Older boys, who were supposed to know, stoutly averred that such a desecration of the sacred solitude of chapel had never before been heard of, and "Peg-Leg," long since recovered from his contact with the bell rope, shook his gray head doubtfully, and joined his feeble tones with the cheers of the others.

He there expresses the artist's fear of beauty's desecration by the crowd.

At the time of the Commonwealth, while the interior of the sacred fabric underwent every sort of desecration and mutilation,while stones were torn from the pavement, and monumental brasses from tombs,while carved stalls were burnt, and statues plucked from their niches,a similar fate attended the portico.

Tony objected even in jest to such desecration.

He felt this stranger's presence in her chamber to be a desecration.

So, too, there are those among us who have the bad taste to think it a desecration in Louis Napoleon to have scraped the stained and venerable old Nôtre Dame into cleanliness.

[-11-] Cicero, accordingly, took root anew and got back his property and likewise the foundation of his home, although the latter had been given up to Liberty and Clodius both called the gods to witness and interposed religious scruples against its desecration.

In Psalms 74 and 89, for example, there are clear references to the desecration of the temple and the bitter persecutions of Antiochus.

Well preserved, well protected and forever free from further desecration, the château de Fois is as nobly impressive and glorious a monument of the Middle Ages as may be found in France, as well as chief record of the gallant days of the Comtes de Foix.

When the congregation concluded to abandon the "Round Church," which stood on the triangle between Liberty, Wood and Sixth streets, and began to dig for a foundation for Trinity, where it now stands, there was great desecration of graves.

This was such a desecration of the day, but I made no remark.

His desecration of the bird was regarded as a sin for which there was no atonement.

Even Estenega's face darkened: the traditions planted in plastic youth arose and rebelled at the desecration.

Never had the wood before shown so sweet a sense of security from the turmoil and tempest of the world beyond; never before had an intrusion from the outer lifeeven in the shape of a letterseemed so wicked a desecration.

Still young and beautiful, she was deserted by the only man she had ever lovedthe being for whom she had ruthlessly sacrificed the welfare of her sisters and every sentiment of honor; to whom she had given up her liberty to pander to his and his father's ignominy, and her home to their desecration.

92 examples of  desecration  in sentences