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"I could be a clone?" she asked, picking up on the very pregnant 'might have been' and worried that she was committing the greatest sacrilege the church knows
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Before another song began, I weaved through the throng, aware that all eyes were on me and so moved cautiously to avoid any undue sacrilege
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The policy must be as violent as that of Indostan or ancient Egypt (where every man was bound by a principle of religion to follow the occupation of his father, and was supposed to commit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for another), which can in any particular employment, and for several generations together, sink either the wages of labour or the profits of stock below their natural rate
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Jean, uncomfortable with the almost sacrilegious turn of
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It was very deep and far enough from the altar that this didn’t seem a sacrilege
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Everything belonging or related to so popular an order, its possessions, its privileges, its doctrines, necessarily appeared sacred in the eyes of the common people; and every violation of them, whether real or pretended, the highest act of sacrilegious wickedness and profaneness
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foot soles are plated with it, and it is considered sacrilege of the higher calibres for them to touch
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Some think it would be a sacrilege
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* Maoris were not considered white folk and thus this statement was seen as sacrilege
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” I chuckled respectfully, but took bets in my mind on how long he would last saying such things, which the Nationalists would surely regard as sacrilege
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In the Holy Land though, in His Land and His Domain, it would be sacrilege to utter these words in anything above a whisper
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He could not commit such a sacrilege even for his children's sake
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39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and the
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love for life seems sacrilegious in the eyes of those fanatics who exult pain and
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for this damnable treason and sacrilege, the wizard caused
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39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus and the fruit of it was spread abroad the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus many vessels of gold being already carried away
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6 And whoever was condemned of sacrilege or had committed any other grievous crime there did all men thrust him to death
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14 And with every member disjointed he exclaimed in expostulation 15 O most accursed tyrant and enemy of Heavenly justice and cruel-hearted I am no murderer nor sacrilegious man whom you so ill-use; but a defender of the Divine law
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The north-men came like stinging hornets and spread on all sides like fearful wolves, robbing, violating, committing sacrilege everywhere, ripping and slaughtering my flock of virgin scholars! Alcuin -- behold with pity and tears the shrine of Saint Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of the brides of God, stripped of its ornaments, trampled by the polluted steps of pagan fiends, within fire-black walls once graced by Northumbria's finest art! A place more venerable than all in England was the prey of pagan wretches
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“As they celebrated the sacrilege, I became aware my Dancer was with me no longer
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And somehow a waiting room without coffee isn’t much of a waiting room—it’s more like sacrilege
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Oh, and if any of you present feel the need to report what I have just said to the enforcement division I will deny that I ever uttered those sacrilegious words and have you facing interrogation within the hour
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O most holy trinity, father, son and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended
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And sacrilege, three sins in killing three
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The most impious men, those who would disguise themselves as priests to say sacrilegious masses in Catarino’s store, would go to church with an aim to see, if only for an instant, the face of Remedios the Beauty, whose legendary good looks were spoken of with alarming excitement through-out the swamp
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Speaking with such good sense that to Fernanda he was like a sacrilegious parody of Jews among the wise men, the child described with precise and convincing details how the army had machine-gunned more than three thousand workers penned up by the station and how they loaded the bodies onto a two-hundred-car train and threw them into the sea
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“Yeshua, committing sacrilege? But he would never do that
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“Oh yeah? He offers bread and wine at meals while calling them his flesh and blood and you don’t call that a sacrilege?”
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What she was doing now was to Amin al-Husseini pure sacrilege
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” He carefully surveyed the occupants of the room with his eyes that were like cold fire, searching men’s souls for sin and sacrilege, as he slowly seated himself in the chair and crossed his legs
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Patricia smirked at that: a Parisian seeing a waitress put a straw in a glass of what appeared to be red wine would have justly screamed sacrilege at that sight
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be, sacrilegious knowledge, but the means, a crystal communicator, to
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the other side, the destruction of which would have been a sacrilege
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It’s no wonder then that when the statues of Zeus were pulled down all over the Roman Empire; its Pagan subjects had earnestly hoped that the Father of their Gods would destroy the Christians for the sacrilege
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” One side chanted the sacrilege against ancestral lineage
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” Scattered and muffled whispers dared to chant the treasonous sacrilege
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When Ulysses kills the Suitors he no longer has the same hybris and he says that it is sacrilegious to exult over the death of one’s enemies
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Does this sound sacrilegious or blasphemous? I hope not; I do not mean it to be so
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As this man, also, at the last, must be considered as a manifestation of Spirit; there is nothing sacrilegious in the idea that he, being Spirit, should so harmonize himself with his Origin and Source that he would be able to manifest at least a minor degree of its Power
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‘It’s a sacrilege for females to visit the tombs, but I've never been caught
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I said, " It's a sacrilege for females to visit the tombs, but I've never been caught
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But to lie to a bishop raised the operation from just a private sin which God would deal with kindly on being asked, to a crime you were punished for if it was a cathedral you did it to, a real crime, the crime of sacrilege
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And here at the moment of much thankfulness and legitimate pride when his other daughter was so beautifully betrothed came this one, and with impish sacrilegiousness dragged him, her father, into the dust of base and furious instincts, the awful dust in which those sad animal men sit who wish to and do beat their women-folk
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It seemed sacrilege for two strangers
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To interfere with it was declared to be sacrilegious
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The church does not describe this as a miracle, but also it does not define it as sacrilegious
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Kertabit explained to them Olin actions and expressed his sincere belief that it was not sacrilegious in nature
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Even now, they’re considered sacred by the Caucasians, and their “killing” and eating is considered the gravest sacrilege
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Sacrilege, (commit): The crime of violating or profaning sacred things; robbers of temples
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21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written
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Laughing at the truth is a sacrilege
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It is a sacrilege against all living things
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It is a sacrilege against all life
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It is a sacrilege against all of nature
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What kind of cultural insanity made them commit such an insane sacrilege upon the biggest statue they ever built? It would have been tantamount to modern Americans disfiguring Mount Rushmore, and replacing its symbolic meaning by wiping off the original faces and replacing them with smaller faces of another species
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“I never thought about it,” he admitted, as if sacrilegious that he had not
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand had defied this unspoken taboo and married his love and his happy family life was living proof that Love is better than all the Royal privileges and peerages in the world: For committing that sacrilege he had to be killed and destroyed as a living example of familial happiness
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22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
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That it would be sacrilege to do otherwise
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He seemed to him to be conducting himself in a monstrous fashion, to be robbing him in a sort, and almost committing sacrilege
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object of pity or contempt, when thus sacrilegiously violating the purity of her own feelings? Nay, it is as indelicate, when she is indifferent, unless she be
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delicacy and principle--you dared sacrilegiously to barter the honour of the
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thought it sacrilegious to have smiled
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I am really in doubt whether the crime should not be entered under the category of sacrilege rather than theft
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He regarded the suggestion that he should act such an undignified part, as a kind of sacrilege
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I’d watched Faulkner’s name disappear into flames feeling a bit like it was a sacrilege—never had I dreamed I’d be burning books—but I was desperate to lighten my load
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No, Emmanuel, I am but a man, and your admiration is as unmerited as your words are sacrilegious
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What!" he continued, "can I have been following a false path?—can the end which I proposed be a mistaken end?—can one hour have sufficed to prove to an architect that the work upon which he founded all his hopes was an impossible, if not a sacrilegious, undertaking? I cannot reconcile myself to this idea—it would madden me
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Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist
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He had been promised! He had committed sacrilege and murder for this reward
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To cut them up was sacrilege, he said with uncharacteristic passion
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Not like ‘AWESOME! THOSE SINS ARE OUTSTANDING!’ Some people think stuff like that is sacrilegious but I’m pretty sure Jesus would think this shit was hilarious
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Can you imagine what it means for a sensitive and high-spirited woman to be tied to him for day and night? It is a sacrilege, a crime, a villainy to hold that such a marriage is binding
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The magnificent Capataz de Cargadores, deprived of certain simple realities, such as the admiration of women, the adulation of men, the admired publicity of his life, was ready to feel the burden of sacrilegious guilt descend upon his shoulders
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In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps
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"I have felt it to be a sacrilege to divert a brain which is capable of the highest original research to any lesser object
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Sacrilegious though it might be, Scarlett always saw, through her As always since childhood, this was, for Scarlett, a moment for adoration of Ellen, closed eyes, the upturned face of Ellen and not the Blessed Virgin, as the ancient phrases were repeated
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To Scarlett, the very idea of saying such things to her own mother was almost sacrilegious
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Mammy cried out equally loudly at the sacrilege of soldiers being permitted to sleep on Miss Ellen’s rug but Scarlett was firm
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It wasn’t the sacrilege of burning a church that had disturbed Sam, so much as the pure waste, because somewhere inside she couldn’t quite accept that life itself was a waste
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All day I have been thinking that if she could rise from her grave, she would herself sell the gold which her love for me lavished on this dressingcase; but were I to do so, the act would seem to me a sacrilege
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The course of the Father Confessor’s arguments ran as follows: ‘Ignorant of the import of what you were undertaking, you made a vow of conjugal fidelity to a man who on his part, by entering the married state without faith in the religious significance of marriage, committed an act of sacrilege
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To see a woman of the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege to believe it possible
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In 1649 the holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Greve, a rare and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar
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On only one occasion did she hover on the edge of public scandal, when the rumor circulated that Archbishop Dante de Luna had not died by accident after eating a plate of poisonous mushrooms but had eaten them intentionally because she threatened to expose him if he persisted in his sacrilegious solicitations
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Who can tell the limit of the Power of Evil? It is sacrilegious to consider it
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This was not only murder but sacrilege
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There was a question she wanted to ask, but it seemed almost sacrilegious in the face of the love of these two men and the terrible suffering they had endured while she sat laughing and happy beside a godlike creature of the forest, eating delicious fruits and looking with eyes of love into answering eyes
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Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity
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And it is SACRILEGE to have it degraded to the level of a baking powder advertisement
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It was against this general “confession” that the opponents of “elders” protested, maintaining that it was a profanation of the sacrament of confession, almost a sacrilege, though this was quite a different thing
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That this was merely an experiment we can hardly doubt: for if it had been only a question of gastronomic variety, six would have been too few; why only six? Why not thirty? But if we regard it as an experiment, inspired by the fear of committing new sacrilege, then this number six becomes intelligible
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He swore he had a stone put up over it with the inscription: ‘Here lies the leg of Collegiate Secretary Lebedeff,’ and on the other side, ‘Rest, beloved ashes, till the morn of joy,’ and that he has a service read over it every year (which is simply sacrilege), and goes to Moscow once a year on purpose
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One morning the news of a hideous and revolting sacrilege was all over the town
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But what was worse, besides the theft a senseless, scoffing sacrilege had been perpetrated
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As I said in my book, I have during the course of many years had frequent opportunities to remark the ridicule and rude jests that have been applied to Christ's words and doctrine, and the ecclesiastics not only failed to condemn it, they even encouraged this scoffing; but let a man venture to say one disrespectful word of the ugly idol called the Iverskaya,[7] sacrilegiously carried around Moscow by intoxicated men, and a groan of indignation will rise from these same Orthodox ecclesiastics
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A man who has been taught by the Church the sacrilegious doctrine that he is to be saved through a certain medium, and not by his own efforts, will surely have recourse to that medium; he will not trust to his own efforts, on which, he has been assured, it is sinful to rely
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Such has been the position of all the oppressed, but until lately they have been unaware of the fact, and for the most part have innocently believed that governments were instituted for their benefit, to preserve them from destruction, and that to permit the idea that men might live without governments would be a thought sacrilegious beyond expression; it would be the doctrine of anarchy, with all its attendant horrors
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In countries where a State religion exists, children are taught the senseless and sacrilegious utterances of church catechisms, with the duty of obedience to authorities; in the republics they are taught the absurd superstition of patriotism, and the same obligation of obedience to the government
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) Why do kindly men and women, who can have no manner of interest in war, go into ecstasies over the exploits of a man like Skobelev? Why do men who are under no obligation to do it, and who receive no pay for it, like Marshals of Nobility in Russia, devote months to the service which demands such unremitting labor, wearying to the minds as well as to the body,—the enlistment of recruits? Why do all emperors and kings wear a military dress, why do they have drills and parades and military rewards? Why are monuments built to generals and conquerors? Why do wealthy and independent men regard it as an honor to occupy the position of lackeys to kings, to flatter them and feign a belief in their special superiority? Why do men who have long since ceased to believe in the medieval superstitions of the Church still constantly and solemnly pretend to do so, and thus support a sacrilegious and demoralizing institution? Why is the ignorance of the people so zealously preserved, not only by the government, but by men of the higher classes? Why do they so energetically denounce every attempt to overthrow popular superstition and to promote popular education? Why do historians, novelists, and poets, who can derive no benefit in exchange for their flattery, paint in such glowing colors the emperors, kings, and generals of bygone times? Why do the so-called scientists devote their lives to formulate theories that violence committed on the people by power is legitimate violence—is right?