The engineer, with garnishments of profanity, considered dueling to be a painstakingly-described absurdity and wished "the old popinjay" joy of his bargain.

Commands and calls were being bawled in English, French, and polyglot profanity.

He was apparently the owner of the sheep, or in some way concerned with them, for he harangued the drovers in a flow of language which though rich in profanity, was poured forth in a pleasant and jovial voice.

Answer Shimei when he curses you and you will echo his profanity.

"Goddlemighty, they've double-crossed us," he swore to his partner, with an explosion of accompanying profanity.

There he confided the joke to the tall pine-trees, with many slaps of his leg, contortions of his face, and the usual profanity.

Her husband, after an exclamation which savoured of profanity, stared at her with a doubtful and malicious frown upon his forehead.

One day his terrible swearing scared a woman, "a very loose and ungodly wretch," as he tells us, who reprimanded him for his profanity.

All his profanity left him; he hung down his head with shame.

They were slapping one another, scuffling, making feints with knives or stones, all to an accompaniment of bragging, profanity, and loud laughter.

He suddenly broke into violent profanity.

So much for the introduction to an episode that is characteristic of the profanity of some of the descendents of the old Teutonic stock, when they become exasperated.

Hereupon he began first to swear at the clouds, then at the Lord himself, using all the epithets of abuse that he could find in his entire vocabulary of profanity, there were heavy peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning, but, the darker it became and the more tremendous the crashes of the thunderbolts, the more the senseless and exasperated barber cursed and swore.

The Captain decided that he would not interfere, whereupon the party offended took to dancing, cursing and swearing, and tried their utmost in this way to break up the prayer-meetings, I heard similar profanity on my return trip across the Atlantic.

It is true, most of them would swear, and get drunk at their banquets; but their profanity was conventional rather than blasphemous, and they seldom got drunk till late in the evening, and then on wines older than their children, from the most famous vineyards of Europe.

Vulgarity is even lower than profanity.

Profanity is coarse and degrading; vulgarity is positively low and filthy.

It was certainly better that they should learn to sing by rote the Creed and the "definitions" of scientific terms, and such like, than to learn the profanity and obscenity of the streets, which was the alternative.

It was the first outburst of profanity from Mr. Sandford,too fastidious, usually, to allow himself the use of such expletives.

American profanity.

SEE MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS. American profanity.

The forewoman descended on her with a torrent of coarse abuse, whereupon Sadie rose suddenly from her machine, and in a burst of hysterical profanity and tears rushed out of the factory, vowing never to return.

"Where the devil are those blacks?" said Dorothy, biting off her words with a crisp snap that startled me more than her profanity.

but that you were making researches in comparative philologytrying to prove the unity of the human race by identity of oaths, or by a comparison of profanity to demonstrate that the Digger Indians are legitimately descended from the Chinese.

Recklessness and effrontery were displayed in their countenances, and their discourse was full of ribaldry and profanity.