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  • He had been a sailor and a sinner (two terms that were synonymous in Momma's lexicon), a great blasphemer, a laugher in the face of the Almighty.†   (source)
  • …gone blind, unable to decipher the lights, and the tracks gleaming and snarling senselessly upward forever, the train never stopping and the people screaming at windows and doors and turning on each other with all the accumulated fury of their blasphemed lives, everything gone out of them but murder, breaking limb from limb and splashing in blood, with joy—for the first time, joy, joy, after such a long sentence in chains, leaping out to astound the world, to astound the world again.†   (source)
  • After a few steins of ale-to lubricate my speaking, you understand, after a 'alf year with nary a word uttered, except perhaps for blaspheming the world and all beyond when losing a bear-biter-I come to Neil, the froth still fresh on my beard, and start exchanging gossip.†   (source)
  • The father who had blasphemed his way up the hill fell silent.†   (source)
  • "Are you here to blaspheme against the gods, demon boy?" said Ataba.†   (source)
  • "You blaspheme too much," she said irritably.†   (source)
  • 'You blasphemed, boy.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it was a proposal that blasphemed holy matrimony.†   (source)
  • To make peace with the Horde may defile your Great Romance, but it does not blaspheme Elyon.†   (source)
  • I believe in freedom of speech, the right to offend and blaspheme, as well as the right to convert and bear witness.†   (source)
  • "Doc!" she gasps, as if the idea were some awful, blaspheming joke.†   (source)
  • How dare you blaspheme my father!†   (source)
  • It wasn't just the disappointed look on Diamond's face; it was also the fact that she had just blasphemed the place where her father had grown up.†   (source)
  • She had planted the bomb, she said, to punish the blasphemers and the infidels in the name of Allah and Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • And like in that dream I told you about, the chapel—I had this obsession with le blaspheme.†   (source)
  • I shall blaspheme in every Temple throughout the land.†   (source)
  • I'm not one for blaspheming -- but that one made me laugh.   (source)
  • Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.   (source)
  • Outside the center there was a little church, I do not believe it was Catholic, I think it must have been Lutheran, but it don't matter—I had this idea that if I killed myself in this church, it would be the greatest sacrilege I could ever commit, le plus grand blaspheme, because you see, Stingo, I didn't care no more; after Auschwitz, I didn't believe in God or if He existed.†   (source)
  • I mean, I can't take a guy seriously when he's using words like "blaspheming," but I'm over a barrel if I don't want to look like the worst kind of heretic in front of Jody.†   (source)
  • Don't let the blasphemers escape!†   (source)
  • Not only have you blasphemed by producing a false image, but in your arrogance you have set yourself against the law, and sinned in intent.†   (source)
  • Blasphemer!†   (source)
  • Dearly beloved, when God saw how men's hearts waxed evil, how they turned aside, each to his own way, how they married and gave in marriage, how they feasted on ungodly meat and drink, and lusted, and blasphemed, and lifted up their hearts in sinful pride against the Lord? oh, then, the Son of God, the blessed lamb that taketh away the sins of the world, this Son of God who was the Word made flesh, the fulfillment of the promise? oh, then, He turned to His Father, crying: 'Father,…†   (source)
  • Then they began to blaspheme in a very shocking manner, and suddenly I, too, began to be annoyed.†   (source)
  • I would lie and perjure and swear, I would blaspheme and pray.†   (source)
  • She forgot to blaspheme.†   (source)
  • Don't blaspheme.†   (source)
  • You dare blaspheme against the sublimest of the arts!†   (source)
  • After that I ceased to blaspheme, but I cursed my father.†   (source)
  • "Blaspheme not, Jew," said the Pilgrim, sternly.†   (source)
  • Among them I should have stood like Hymenaeus and Alexander, who were delivered over to Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme.†   (source)
  • I come to you with open hands, begging you not merely to comfort the sufferers but to snatch their souls from the burning lakes of sulfur to which, in His everlasting mercy, the Lord of Hosts hath condemned those that blaspheme against His gospel, freely given—†   (source)
  • Isn't it enough to make one blaspheme that the composer of that hymn is one of the most commonplace men I ever met!"†   (source)
  • Coictier exclaimed, "Pardieu, Dom Claude, alchemy has its use, no doubt, but why blaspheme medicine and astrology?"†   (source)
  • "Blaspheme not the holy saints, Sir Reginald," said De Bracy, "we shall have need of their aid to-day before yon rascal rout disband."†   (source)
  • "Dog of an infidel," said Front-de-Boeuf, with sparkling eyes, and not sorry, perhaps, to seize a pretext for working himself into a passion, "blaspheme not the Holy Order of the Temple of Zion, but take thought instead to pay me the ransom thou hast promised, or woe betide thy Jewish throat!"†   (source)
  • "The blood of these accursed dogs," said the Grand Master, "shall be a sweet and acceptable offering to the saints and angels whom they despise and blaspheme; and with their aid will we counteract the spells and charms with which our brother is entwined as in a net.†   (source)
  • "Dog!" said the Templar, grinding his teeth, "I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion;" and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.†   (source)
  • But, gentlemen, your business Which you said so urgent, is it only Scolding and blaspheming?†   (source)
  • I wasn't blaspheming, I was asking for information.†   (source)
  • He says he has nursed a blasphemer and an ingrate.†   (source)
  • Eugene waited for God's visitation upon the unhappy blasphemer.†   (source)
  • Then the angels appeared before God, and spoke, "Seest Thou not what he doth, yon sinner and blasphemer, Nimrod son of Canaan, who slays so many innocent babes that have done no harm?"†   (source)
  • They were Carlists from Navarra and while both of them cursed and blasphemed when they were angry they regarded it as a sin which they regularly confessed.†   (source)
  • They hung about the door of the church on festival days with mockery and loud laughter, spoke insolently to the nuns in the street, stood jeering and blaspheming when the procession went by on Corpus Christi Sunday.†   (source)
  • I behold and I know the secret things and the things that are revealed, and ye shall witness what I will do unto this sinner and blasphemer, for I will turn My hand against him to chastise him.†   (source)
  • At the dead of night he would rise, full of pain and terror, blaspheming vilely against his God at one moment, and frantically entreating forgiveness at the next.†   (source)
  • "Why, George Babbitt, I won't have you cursing and swearing and blaspheming!"†   (source)
  • But to do so would have been like blaspheming her love.†   (source)
  • Maggie's red mother, stretched on the floor, blasphemed and gave her daughter a bad name.†   (source)
  • "Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer,' said Lawson.†   (source)
  • At one time he raved and blasphemed; and at another howled and tore his hair.†   (source)
  • But it were impious to trace any farther the picture of the blasphemer and parricide's deathbed.†   (source)
  • —Blasphemer!†   (source)
  • We've got respect for your dead, but we haven't got any for a blasphemer and a traitor that won't do anything for his country and only bought one Liberty Bond."†   (source)
  • I'll tell em how I blasphemed and gambled and wopped my poor old mother— RUMMY [shocked] Used you to beat your mother?†   (source)
  • Martin was faithful enough about it, and gave to it almost every morning, but he blasphemed more than usual and he unholily welcomed scientific papers in which lipovaccines were condemned as inferior to ordinary salt solutions.†   (source)
  • So I have been drinking, and blaspheming, or next door to it, and saying holy things in disreputable quarters—repeating in idle bravado words which ought never to be uttered but reverently!†   (source)
  • When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.†   (source)
  • No. A well-proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer.†   (source)
  • He understood full well that it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim, and he blasphemed him.†   (source)
  • By the side of the one where they were singing, there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent as the tomb.†   (source)
  • The dog jumped from right to left, and from left to right; snapping, growling, and barking; the man thrust and swore, and struck and blasphemed; and the struggle was reaching a most critical point for one or other; when, the door suddenly opening, the dog darted out: leaving Bill Sikes with the poker and the clasp-knife in his hands.†   (source)
  • —Blasphemer of God!†   (source)
  • …have crept out of some subterranean sewer, and was stooping along the kennel, and poking the wet rubbish with a stick, in quest of rusty nails; a merchant or two, at the door of the post-office, together with an editor and a miscellaneous politician, awaiting a dilatory mail; a few visages of retired sea-captains at the window of an insurance office, looking out vacantly at the vacant street, blaspheming at the weather, and fretting at the dearth as well of public news as local gossip.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I shall have great pleasure in sending it to perdition to punish its Maker,' exclaimed the blasphemer.†   (source)
  • The religion I serve, the God I adore, were blasphemed because I called upon that religion and that God, but still I resisted.†   (source)
  • Oh, Alyosha, I am not blaspheming!†   (source)
  • "Hush, don't laugh, blasphemer!†   (source)
  • —beware of the blasphemer's end!"†   (source)
  • Straightway, then, Gabriel once more started to his feet, glaring upon the old man, and vehemently exclaimed, with downward pointed finger—"Think, think of the blasphemer—dead, and down there!†   (source)
  • As for her, she returned to her place with a smile of savage contempt upon her lips, and repeated, blaspheming, that terrible name of God, by whom she had just sworn without ever having learned to know Him.†   (source)
  • They will tell you, the blasphemers!†   (source)
  • "The crosses are ready," said the centurion to the pontiff, who received the report with a wave of the hand and the reply, "Let the blasphemer go first.†   (source)
  • The circumcised villain blasphemeth the holy church, and Christian men listen and rebuke him not!†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She blasphemeth" in older English, today we say "She blasphemes."
  • 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.†   (source)
  • You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.†   (source)
  • 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?†   (source)
  • —O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurs'd And does blaspheme his breed?†   (source)
  • When they arrive before its rushing blast, here are shrieks, and bewailing, and lamenting; here they blaspheme the power divine.†   (source)
  • And I waited, as a blasphemer waits for lightning.†   (source)
  • Thieves, vagrants, blasphemers, adulterers …. and suspected witches.†   (source)
  • But thy mouth would never stay From vanity, blaspheming night and day Our masters.†   (source)
  • Thou blasphemer of Christ with villany,* *outrage, impiety And oathes great, of usage and of pride!†   (source)
  • And in the condemnation of him that had blasphemed the Lord (Levit.†   (source)
  • 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.†   (source)
  • Here conscience flew in my face, reprehending me as a blasphemer; crying with a loud and piercing voice, _Unworthy wretch! how dare you ask what you have done?†   (source)
  • They blasphemed God and their parents, the human race, the place, the time and the seed of their sowing and of their birth.†   (source)
  • And when the Son of a woman of Israel had blasphemed God, they that heard it, did not kill him, but brought him before Moses, who put him under custody, till God should give Sentence against him; as appears, Levit.†   (source)
  • For this he shall live hated, be blasphemed, Seised on by force, judged, and to death condemned A shameful and accursed, nailed to the cross By his own nation; slain for bringing life: But to the cross he nails thy enemies, The law that is against thee, and the sins Of all mankind, with him there crucified, Never to hurt them more who rightly trust In this his satisfaction; so he dies, But soon revives; Death over him no power Shall long usurp; ere the third dawning light Return, the…†   (source)
  • Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangl'd babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,— Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our caldron.†   (source)
  • Avarice, or Covetousness, which is the root of all harms, since its votaries are idolaters, oppressors and enslavers of men, deceivers of their equals in business, simoniacs, gamblers, liars, thieves, false swearers, blasphemers, murderers, and sacrilegious.†   (source)
  • "I have," quoth he, "had a despite to-day, God *yielde you,* adown in your village, *reward you That in this world is none so poor a page, That would not have abominatioun Of that I have received in your town: And yet ne grieveth me nothing so sore, As that the olde churl, with lockes hoar, Blasphemed hath our holy convent eke."†   (source)
  • The Leader stopped, and I said to that shade who was bitterly blaspheming still, "Who art thou that thus railest at another?"†   (source)
  • And why should they only that heard him, Lay their Hands upon him, and not rather a Priest, Levite, or other Minister of Justice, but that none else were able to design, and demonstrate to the eyes of the Congregation, who it was that had blasphemed, and ought to die?†   (source)
  • Violence may be done to the Deity, by denying and blaspheming Him in heart, and despising nature and His bounty: and therefore the smallest round seals with its signet both Sodom and Cahors, and him who despising God speaks from his heart.†   (source)
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