Adjective : unhallowed ground. ,unhallowed practices. From Dictionary.com.
Those who practice liberalism should be hanged without benefit of trial and they should be buried in unhallowed ground, preferably Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces] Reference
That heat the heart with fierce, unhallowed fires. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
George had gone step by step further on unhallowed ground. From Wordnik.com. [Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City] Reference
With unbowed heads and folded arms, gaze on the unhallowed scene!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Will you ever take another sip from the cup of unhallowed pleasure?. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.] Reference
Here, a heart fired with ambition, in strife and straining unhallowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
And here it converted a legitimate convenience into an unhallowed business. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Two children -- a boy and a girl -- blessed his otherwise unhallowed union. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Its every column is like the charge of a column of infantry into the unhallowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Behind me was an unhallowed past, and before me the brink of an awful eternity. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
I was beginning to credit with the possession of unhallowed, unlawful powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
An unlovely, unhallowed safety, but such as it was it was her salvation and Gaston's. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
"I will never countenance any of your unhallowed plots," replied Emily, and she again moved towards the door. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Ye who revel in guilty joys, and drink deep of the nectar in the gilded cup of unhallowed pleasures -- beware!. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
No lettered slab marks the place of his interment; and his bones remain in unhallowed and unconsecrated ground. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
Oh, let no unhallowed subject get hold of me in that hour, but keep my Saviour's name in my heart, and on my lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
Lords, I will not, I cannot, and I dare not vote for that most unhallowed bill which lies on your Lordships 'table.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
I could have no just claims, or if I had, your heart must sanction them, or they would be unhallowed and unjustifiable. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
In the clefts of the mountains they remember and honor the young chieftain, whose body had been thrown into unhallowed ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
What! was it possible? it could not be, that in time he was to be like those awful, those unearthly, those unhallowed things that were around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
The sullen, distant roar sent a thrill to the heart of the demon woman, who crouched in the bushes to await the completion of her unhallowed revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
I have gathered that there was once a warlock or wizard here in the sixteenth century -- one of your forebears -- who bore a most unhallowed reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Still the Chevalier profanes not that pure form with his unhallowed touch; perchance some unseen power, the guardian of spotless innocence, restrains him. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
Why, almost every appeal made by Bryan, or for him, has been addressed directly to the covetousness, the envy, and all the unhallowed passions of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
But the fugitives had already sped on, and the unregenerate knave turned his pious eloquence into an unhallowed channel of oaths, waving his staff menacingly after them. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
More than three hundred years later Henry VIII. decided that St. Thomas was an enemy of princes, that his shrine at Canterbury must be destroyed, and his festival unhallowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
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