How To Use Unhallowed In A Sentence
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The spirit of Jesus [challenged] class distinctions between the righteous few and the unhallowed many.
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You wouldn't want to think of him lying somewhere unhallowed without a stone to mark his passing, would you?
THE ONLY GAME
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He had added to their nightly meal cups of a heady and intoxicating cordial, of ten times the strength of the most powerful wine, under which several of the fraternity had succumbed, and indeed, although the Sacristan had been strong to resist its influence, they might yet see, from his inflamed countenance and thick speech, that even he, the accuser himself, was in some degree affected by this unhallowed potation.
Quentin Durward
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In the first scene, Madoc discovers an English plot to exhume his father's bones and discard them "In some unhallowed pit, with foul disgrace/And contumelious wrong" (Southey, Madoc 128).
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
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Instead, her imagination led her to see - ‘with shut eyes, but acute mental vision ‘- ‘the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.’
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There are added felicities: traditionally, suicides were buried in unhallowed ground at crossroads, and what more impressive crossroads has the world ever seen than this?
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While the mourners were busy in the vault, the three village hags, who, notwithstanding the unwonted earliness of the hour, had snuffed the carrion like vultures, were seated on the “through-stane,” and engaged in their wonted unhallowed conference.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Sailing then into the Roman harbour, and the unhallowed sports being just about to close, the soldiers began to be annoyed at our slowness, but the bishop rejoicingly yielded to their urgency.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Alas, Busteed failed to persuade the jury that his client's story was quite as true as it was interesting, and the fame of The Pickwick Papers has in fact outlived that of the roving and unhallowed lust of Mrs. Beardsley.
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I am never domesticated in lodgings the hearth is unhallowed & the
Letter 168
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The chief was pacified, but nevertheless caused every spot which had been polluted by their unhallowed steps to be uptorn, and
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Victor knows that all of them would condemn his unhallowed endeavor to reanimate dead human tissue, so he sutures in the shadows, keeping his horrible handiwork a dark, Byronic secret.
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In that unhallowed place centuries before, show trials were held, unjust and corrupt, and many innocents were sentenced to slow, twitching deaths on the gibbet.
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Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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Evidently there is quite a treasure chamber somewhere in the depths of this unhallowed place.
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The angry officer, quite out of breath, could only point at the depredator, who, unaware of the approach of any interruption, still continued to enjoy his unhallowed meal.
Ralph Rashleigh
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They'll bury the ashes in unmarked graves in unhallowed ground.
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That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil.
Coningsby
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Places where unhallowed men and women had perished for love or faith or both.
SACRAMENT
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It's the unhallowed and unhallowing touch of the selfish, of sin, that makes things seem common, in the sense of not being holy and sweet and pure and refreshing.
Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
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It is always to be remembered, that Saint John's Church thus consecrated and set apart to the worship of Almighty God, is by the act of consecration thus performed, separated from all worldly and unhallowed uses, and to be considered sacred to the service of the _Holy and undivided Trinity_.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
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But no sooner had the gaoler's feet touched the fairy ring, than he saw and heard like the rest, and he called lustily to the chaplain to come and stop the unhallowed measure.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
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Russia and Gabon are blatantly banning all imports of the other white meat, while Egypt has ordered the mass-execution of all of their unhallowed hoggies (although this could merely be a convenient excuse to settle an age-old Islamic grudge -- why must unsanctified flesh taste so delicious!).
Warren Holstein: Preparing for the Swine Flu Apocalypse
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Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.
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The book says much of the author, it reads: ‘To the Irish men and women and children who lie in unhallowed grounds in the sugar cane fields of Barbados’.
