Not one law of the sculptor's ritual but thou hadst broken, in the sacrilegious fresco.
If he were suffering punishment for the statue, what punishment had been his for the sacrilegious execution of the Judgment of the Dead in the tomb of Rameses II?
This sacrilegious robbery was repeated throughout the country--a dangerous example to the poor, whom they had indoctrinated with the pernicious ideas so prevalent in these times, the climax of which we saw the other day in Paris.
Would the Madonna send a thunderbolt to destroy these sacrilegious wretches, and perhaps myself at the same time?
Well, Signor Arciprete, just as the sacrilegious knave was about to count his unhallowed gains, lo!
Madonna to give back life to the dead in order to save her holy church from being violated by sacrilegious hands.
Our honest Peppe held the sacrilegious miscreant as in a vice until the sacristan entered the church to light the candles.
For in the Mass the adversaries retain only the ceremony, and publicly apply this to sacrilegious gain.
How much evil is there in the sacrilegious profanation of the Mass applied to gain!
Lord, who have suppressed the doctrine concerning faith and the remission of sins, and, under the pretext of satisfactions, have devoted the body and blood of the Lord to sacrilegious gain.
Now the cases of soldiers being thrown down cliffs are, I believe, unknown until the Phokian prisoners were so dealt with in the Sacred War, as sacrilegious offenders against Apollo and the Delphian temple.
Now the penalty of death, inflicted on the sacrilegious person, is justly inflicted.
When the order to fire was given, many of the chiefs and soldiers ran away panic-stricken, and others hesitated to obey the sacrilegious order; and not till several gunners had been cut down were the guns opened.
Do you know if Francisco Acero gave his word to the governor not to trouble the poor soldiers in their abductions, in their impious deeds, in their sacrilegious acts, in their villanies?
In no language, perhaps, does there exist a jest-book more disgustingly prurient or so full of sacrilegious ribaldry as the Facetiae of Poggio Bracciolini.
He is a thief and a sacrilegious pest upon the earth.
As he looked he felt once more a certain change in himself and his impulses, suddenly felt the torture of a sacrilegious thought, an instinct, horrible at one moment, alluring the next.
These people come now at this late day prating about violence that they have suffered from this sacrilegious and bloodthirsty Luther.
In all those instances when a persistent effort has been made, a monk appeared in full habit, with a cross in his hand to warn off sacrilegious offenders.
Catholic goodness towards the Church in general, and our Order in particular, had granted to us the profit of this confiscation, in acknowledgment of our services in discovering the infamous and sacrilegious relapse of the said Rennepont.
He, too, was amazed that the sacrilegious robber who had lately extorted from him the sum of one hundred pounds, under threat of destroying the town, should again pay him a visit, and in such a guise.
On going to the grave, opening it, and attempting to take the ring from off the finger of the lady, she came to herself, and so terrified the sacrilegious thief, that he ran away and left his lantern behind him.
I thank the gods, however, that they have not suffered you to lie concealed after such a sacrilegious attempt.
To abolish the sacrilegious custom of swearing at Constantinople, as he had done at Antioch, he strained every sinew, and in several sermons he exerted his zeal with uncommon energy, mingled with the most tender charity.
He took up the Bible with sacrilegious purpose, and made it the plaything of his vicious heart.
Anathema upon whosoever should dare to lift a sacrilegious hand against a priest of the Church, an anointed of the Lord!
Nobody may drive the bird away; to do so would not merely injure the rice, it would hurt the eyes of the sacrilegious person and might even strike him blind.
Hence no one may drive away, much less kill, these birds; to do so would not only injure the crop, the sacrilegious wretch himself would suffer from sickness, which might end in blindness.
The sacrilegious attempt to supersede Tenniel's classical designs naturally met with no sympathy from Punch, and, what is more to the point, did not prove a success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacrilegious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
