Half perfunctorily, young Windham made his way there, entered and sat down in the big trading room where sailormen were usually assembled to discourse profanely of the perils of the sea.
Through it all Lees could be heard profanelygiving orders.
He seemed to treat the whole proceeding as a bit of horseplay, joking profanelywith his captors, boasting of his crimes.
Satan putting pins into it, may refer to those who profanelypervert the grace of God to evil, by saying, "Let us do evil, that good may come.
Are we profanely apt to judge of God harshly, as of one that would gather where he had not strawn?
He laughed again until Happy, across the corral saddling the horse he had chosen, muttered profanely at the derision he knew was pointed at himself.
Andy lay stretched unconscious upon the porch beside him, and down in the bunk-house the Happy Family was rubbing eyes and exclaiming profanely at the story Pink was telling.
He sat huddled in the shadow of a rock and wished profanely that women would stay at home and not go camping out in the Badlands, where their presence was distinctly inappropriate and undesirable.
With that he edged away from them and made his escape to where the cook was profanely mixing biscuits for supper.
They managed to get it on shipboard, but in passing through Ramsey Sound the vessel was wrecked--a direct result, the superstitious said, of profanely treating the bell.
We speak of Mr. Thomas Wilson, profanelycalled Tommy Wilson, the dancing-master, by his wicked pupils.
It is Mr. William Rigg, profanelycalled “Billy Rigg” by his familiars.
Red drolly; she had, much to his abashment, once caught him feeding one with crumbs of cake, embellishing his service with profanely quaint ejaculations of delight.
So far as I could perceive, no attempt to depart was made by anyone, excepting a big fellow with a red moustache, who swore profanely as he struggled through the mud, dragging a huge valise.
Ghirlandaio's elegant way of telling his story had put me in the humour for something more largely intelligent, more profanely pleasing.
His zeal was unrelenting in the cause of religion; that is, in imposing by rigorous measures his own tenets and pious ceremonies on the obstinate Puritans, who had profanely dared to oppose him.
Shame from our hearts Unworthy arts, The fraud designed, the purpose dark; And smite away The hands we lay Profanely on the sacred ark.
That he who treads profanely on the scrolls of law and creed, In the depth of God's great goodness may find mercy in his need; But woe to him who crushes the soul with chain and rod, And herds with lower natures the awful form of God!
To which Uncle Billy Rhodes repliedprofanely inviting them to make the charge.
Hickok stumbled out through the door after him, and Doc Brinck came riding back from his hunting expedition in time to lend his rifle to his partner, who insisted profanely that he was fit to finish what he had so well begun.
Grinning, Casey followed him inside and exclaimed profanely in admiration of Mack Nolan's genius.
Why do the wealthy wicked boast, And grow profanely bold?
I heard the wretch profanely boast, Till at thy frown he fell; His honours in a dream were lost, And he awakes in hell.
Where once thy churches pray'd and sang Thy foes profanely roar; Over thy gates their ensigns hang, Sad tokens of their power.
Ay, Hugh; and the 'spirit of fleecing,' as a consequence of what is profanely termed the last.
Thou oft hast told me of the happy hours Enjoyed by thee in fair Italia's bowers, Where, lingering yet, the ghost of ancient wit Midst modern monks profanely dares to flit.
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