I cannot help being edified, for I am unable to look upon anything that approaches the profane.

what can this mean? VALENTINE Abstain, Nor dare God's holy name profane!

You see now that we have not mingled the profane with the sacred when, at each sense we indicated the sin committed by that sense, since it is the language of the Church itself.

We do not say that a return of her old love helped this deduction, because we do not wish to mix up profane with sacred things.

As sacred things should precede profane, let us begin with the churches.

The enemy Thy secret sought to gain; A hand unseen repelled the beast profane.

It is not those kisses of the lipskisses that one forgets as one forgets the roses we smelt last yearwhich profane; they but soil the vessel of the sacrament, and it is the sacrament itself which those consuming spirit-kisses, which burn but through the eyes, may desecrate.

It cannot affect the profane, who are, of course, beyond its pale.

Pa yelled and talked profane, and told 'em to bring a cannon and kill the elephant, which kept ducking him with his trunk, and swabbing out the bottom of the fountain basin with pa.