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  • I reckon he won't go to heaven. 'Cause he's a little heathen.   (source)
    heathen = someone who is not a Christian
  • The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.   (source)
    heathen = people who do not believe in the God of the Bible
  • "Heathen," she chirps but shuts the door all the same.   (source)
    heathen = someone who is not religious (said humorously)
  • There's something dreadful heathenish about it, seems to me.   (source)
    heathenish = uncivilized
  • You're worse than a heathen — treating your own flesh and blood in that manner!   (source)
    heathen = someone who is not civilized or not moral
  • They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors.   (source)
    heathen = people who do not believe in Christianity
  • He was backed up against a corner of the house of his betrothed and swearing like a heathen.   (source)
    heathen = someone who is uncivilized and immoral
  • I'm a heathen nowadays, though.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Kavinsky's smiling now She puts another piece of pizza on Owen's plate and says, "You're heathens.†   (source)
  • In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like stands of heathen candles.†   (source)
  • In his mind Scrooge was a heathen, who came to his redemption only because he saw ghosts, not angels-and who was to say whether they'd been sent by God, anyway?†   (source)
  • Priests and masters tell us Confirmation means you're a true soldier of the Church and that entitles you to die and be a martyr in case we're invaded by Protestants or Mahommedans or any other class of a heathen.†   (source)
  • A priest once called me a bonehead heathen, and I never returned.†   (source)
  • Heathen Wanted†   (source)
  • He also said he was sorry for her death, and would say a prayer for her, although what sort of a prayer I could not imagine, as he was a heathenish sort of man, with all his tricks and fortune-telling.†   (source)
  • We just got shoved straight into the heathen pandemony.†   (source)
  • These white folks aren't heathens.†   (source)
  • Ancient heathen beliefs persisted under the surface of Christianity, and many of these pre-Christian elements became integrated with Christianity.†   (source)
  • The Church was willing to accept a little bit of xenoglossia if it helped convert heathens, as in the case of St. Louis Bertrand who converted thousands of Indians in the sixteenth century, spreading glossolalia across the continent faster than smallpox.†   (source)
  • The class started with what sounded like a cult incantation, followed by poses that seemed to be saluting a heathen god.†   (source)
  • Still Lives Sandi Dona Charito took the lot of us native children in hand Saturday mornings nine to twelve to put Art into us like Jesus into the heathen.†   (source)
  • Ghosh kept nodding his head, a big smile on his face, waving, keeping up an agitated chatter, "I know, I know, you unkempt rascal, good morning to you, too, yes indeed, I have come to delight in this heathen spectacle ....Let's hang you, by Jove, it certainly is most civilized of you to do this, thank you, thank you," and inching forward.†   (source)
  • It's your first heathen temple.†   (source)
  • She's calmer than ever now, back in her seat behind her pane of glass; there's no heathen running around half-naked to unbalance her.†   (source)
  • It might have been the heat, or something she ate—an orange slush and a Giant Dill Pickle—but about the time Charlton Heston laid eyes on that golden calf and disowned the Children of Israel as idol worshippers and heathen sons of lewd women, I elected to emerge.†   (source)
  • "Are you a heathen god of some sort?" she asked.†   (source)
  • Oh, my dear, yes, caught in the woods with a heathen.†   (source)
  • Thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn.†   (source)
  • It was their sermons we grew up listening to in a church bare of adornment, their notions of what was heathenish that hushed the Sabbath and quieted the church hells, that took the ale from the tavern and the lace from the dresses, the ribands from the Maypole and the laughter out of the public lanes.†   (source)
  • Never mind the insects that came to mind, the disease carried by every living creature in such places, never mind the rumors of bare-breasted heathens (it seemed he had chosen only primitive locations).†   (source)
  • "T'ain't fitting a heathen should read the Word of God," she said.†   (source)
  • Little heathens are bums.†   (source)
  • When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers.†   (source)
  • He poked the moccasins at me—which I taken—and he said, "We'uns don't take no charity ....from nobody ....and especial heathen savages!"†   (source)
  • Yet out of all that heathen activity came my expertise for duck hunting and catching fish, as well as my dream to one day build my own duck calls.†   (source)
  • You mean that fat hideous red-skinned heathen woman?†   (source)
  • Heathen.†   (source)
  • He explained what he meant by telling me a story which sounded a little like something out of the Old Testament; but which, so Mike assured me, was a part of the semi-religious folklore of the inland Eskimos, who, alas for their immortal souls, were still happily heathen.†   (source)
  • Well, wouldn't you say offhand he was a heathen?†   (source)
  • We will burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West.†   (source)
  • God, what unspeakable things went on in that heathen sanctum!†   (source)
  • BRADY Has Mr. Cates ever tried to pollute your mind with his heathen dogma?†   (source)
  • Still, we aren't Janizaries, we aren't heathens, we won't drive you out into the forest to be eaten by bears.†   (source)
  • Turning half-beast and half-divine, dividing himself like a heathen Centaur, he had escaped his death once more.†   (source)
  • In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren.†   (source)
  • They love the heathen on the other side of the globe.   (source)
    heathen = people who do not believe in Christianity
  • …of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental despotisms; for such as have the light and the good tidings, and yet have not eyes to see nor ears to hear withal; for the heathen in the far islands of the sea; and closed with a supplication that the words he was about to speak might find grace and favor, and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good.   (source)
  • She's next door to a perfect heathen.   (source)
    heathen = an offensive term for people who are not Christian
  • You're not quite a heathen.   (source)
  • ...it was to be doubted if he ever knew when Sunday came round, which showed him a worse heathen than many a dog.   (source)
    heathen = someone who is not a believing Christian
  • We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the POOR HEATHEN!   (source)
    heathen = people who do not believe in Christianity
  • He would feel mighty silly trying to explain it to a heathen.†   (source)
  • "Well ...Kitty might be part heathen," I admit.†   (source)
  • These ramparts had fended off armies of Berbers, heathens, and Moors.†   (source)
  • I reckon he was wondering which one Father had him pegged for, brute ox or stalwart heathen.†   (source)
  • "Not heathen ones," said Foxlip, "and the bad luck was all his, eh?"†   (source)
  • "I ain't seen that old heathen about," she said.†   (source)
  • "She's exactly like a heathen," says Aunt Mildred.†   (source)
  • This heathen is accepting the Lord Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • She can't help her red skin, and she isn't heathen.†   (source)
  • "Er, I apologize for calling you heathen," she added.†   (source)
  • She's peeking around for that heathen Captain of hers.†   (source)
  • No matter that at Sunday school I've been told such people are either starving or heathens or both.†   (source)
  • He strode into the room with all kinds of energy, ready to tackle this heathen all over again.†   (source)
  • I'll not have that heathen in my house, much less in my bed.†   (source)
  • Who would have imagined that the Lord would do his work through the hands of heathens?†   (source)
  • The Lord God loves all his children, even the heathens.†   (source)
  • This heathen is mine.†   (source)
  • The old myths and sagas from heathen times were rediscovered, and composers all over Europe began to incorporate folk melodies into their compositions in an attempt to bridge the gap between folk music and art music.†   (source)
  • Priests come to the school to recruit us for the foreign missions, Redemptorists, Franciscans, Holy Ghost Fathers, all converting the distant heathen.†   (source)
  • On nights when big events in Jackson Park drew visitors away from the Midway, "could not several of the many varieties of 'heathen,' black, white and yellow, be cheaply hired to mingle, unobtrusively, but in full native costume, with the crowd on the Main Court?"†   (source)
  • Each apostle had only part of her personal savings, so if the Japanese found money in one, as heathens they might not know which of hundreds of statues to search to find the rest.†   (source)
  • The deeds had been carried out by the Hassassin-a heathen soul tricked into thinking he was doing the work of the Illuminati.†   (source)
  • No heathen.†   (source)
  • Would he really condemn some children to eternal suffering just for the accident of a heathen birth, and reward others for a privilege they did nothing to earn?†   (source)
  • I am a messenger of God's great good news for all mankind, and He has bestowed upon me a greater strength than the brute ox or the most stalwart among the heathen.†   (source)
  • The Reverend failed to notice that every churchgoing family whose children were struck hard with the kakakaka quietly removed themselves back to ancestor worship, while a few of the heathen families that were hard hit quietly came and tried out Christianity.†   (source)
  • But the Reverend feels he is doing such a ripping job of clarifying all fine points of the Scripture to the heathen, he cannot imagine that he is still merely serving the purpose of cleaning up the streets, as it were.†   (source)
  • If there was still some part of a beautiful heathen girl in me, a girl drawn to admiration like a moth to moonlight, and if her heart still pounded on Georgia nights when the peeper frogs called out from roadside ditches, she was too dumbfounded to speak up for herself.†   (source)
  • The astonishing, the bereft, bizarre, and homeless (for we could no longer live in a parsonage without a parson), tainted by darkest Africa and probably heathen, Orleanna and Adah, who have slunk back to town without their man, like a pair of rabid dalmations staggering home without their fire engine.†   (source)
  • And he's not a heathen.†   (source)
  • I'd never voted until I was twenty-nine, but I decided I ought to do so in order to help put godly men and women in positions of authority—instead of a bunch of heathens—since God works through people.†   (source)
  • For a heathen, that is.†   (source)
  • Catch me speaking their heathen lingo!†   (source)
  • She is right, I am a heathen.†   (source)
  • If people had known about the Captain's wine, they would have simply condemned him as a heathen and prayed over him on Wednesday night.†   (source)
  • Letting that heathen into our house.†   (source)
  • Old heathen.†   (source)
  • But we all know that if it ever comes to fighting between Christian and heathen, Armor-of-God will stand on the side of righteousness.†   (source)
  • War was afoot, the fort was stirring, the heathen Reds were gathering from the far corners of the wilderness, and soon, under de Maurepas's command, the French would destroy the ragtag American army Old Chestnut had brought north of the Maw-Mee.†   (source)
  • Tribes of Reds who weren't even heretics, let alone Christians—they were heathen, and half the military operation in Detroit consisted of buying those hideous bloody trophies— "Why, my dear Frederic, you really are taking a chill," said La Fayette.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't trust a heathen from here to omega—but a Presbyterian—he learned everything I told him.†   (source)
  • And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death.†   (source)
  • RACHEL Bert isn't a heathen!†   (source)
  • Yes, yes, catch him, the heathen!†   (source)
  • The Indians in Canada did not have the wheel or telephones, and ate the hearts of their enemies in the heathenish belief that it would give them courage.†   (source)
  • This is a heathenish bunch.†   (source)
  • The rector stood outside and said the customary prayers for the soul of Faith, as Aphra's unearthly voice rose, drowning out his words with chants in some heathenish, incomprehensible tongue.†   (source)
  • Tell them I'll sacrifice them for the sake of heathens if they don't get up!†   (source)
  • Sometimes the rallying cry is 'Save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!'†   (source)
  • But I wasn't going to have any Burden born a heathen.†   (source)
  • His great diocese was still a heathen country.†   (source)
  • But you see it's difficult for semi-heathens like Julia and me.†   (source)
  • Will you torture me like the heathen god?†   (source)
  • Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts Where blackamoors make captive Christian men; Go to the northern seas confined with ice Where the dead breath makes numb the hand* makes dull the brain; MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 903 Find an oasis in the desert sun, Go seek alliance with the heathen Saracen, To share his filthy rites, and try to snatch Forgetfulness in his libidinous courts, Oblivion in the fountain by the date-tree; Or sit and bite your nails in Aquitaine.†   (source)
  • who so far as anyone (including the father who was to give him a daughter in marriage) knew either had no past at all or did not dare reveal it—a man who rode into town out of nowhere with a horse and two pistols and a herd of wild beasts that he had hunted down singlehanded because he was stronger in fear than even they were in whatever heathen place he had fled from, and that French architect who looked like he had been hunted down and caught in turn by the negroes—a man who fled here and hid, concealed himself behind respectability, behind that hundred miles of land which he took from a tribe of ignorant Indians, nobody knows how, and a house the size of a courthouse where he lived fo†   (source)
  • To talk with Lucky to be with Lucky to lie with Lucky was like finding peace in a heathen country it was like breathing the air of a place you love when you're sick and dying for a breath of it.†   (source)
  • The Prophet Mohammed admitted the existence of these heathen spirits," and incorporated them in the Mohammedan system, which recognizes three created intelligences under Allah: Angels formed of light, Jinn of subtle fire, and Man of the dust of the earth.†   (source)
  • Brideshead and Cordelia are both fervent Catholics; he's miserable, she's bird happy; Julia and I are half-heathen; I am happy, I rather think Julia isn't; mummy is popularly believed to be a saint and papa is excommunicated—and I wouldn't know which of them was happy.†   (source)
  • It used to be hiscustom, he said, to go there in Passion Week, but the Acoma Indians were unreclaimed heathen at heart, and had no wish to be bothered with the Mass.†   (source)
  • If there was one doctrine of Grandma Lausch's that went home, it was the one of the soft answer, though with her this was of tactical not merciful origin, the dust-off for heathen, stupes, and bruteheads.†   (source)
  • In the second place any sexual infatuation whatever, so long as it intends marriage, will be regarded as "love", and "love" will be held to excuse a man from all the guilt, and to protect him from all the consequences, if marrying a heathen, a fool, or a wanton.†   (source)
  • You want a rest cure and a hiding place; Miss Brinklow feels a call to evangelize the heathen Tibetan.†   (source)
  • Mallinson, on the other hand, tended to regard him through the bars of an imaginary cage; Miss Brinklow was sharp and sprightly, as with the heathen in his blindness; while Barnard's wise-cracking bonhomie was of the kind he would have cultivated with a butler.†   (source)
  • families, the houses, of Oxford itself, to watch the gallant mimic marching and countermarching of the sons and the brothers, drawn all of them, rich and poor, aristocrat and redneck, by what is probably the most moving mass-sight of all human mass-experience, far more so than the spectacle of so many virgins going to be sacrificed to some heathen Principle, some Priapus—the sight of young men, the light quick bones, the bright gallant deluded blood and flesh dressed in a martial glitter of brass and plumes, marching away to battle.†   (source)
  • For it was like a band of Jesuits landing where a heathen people thirsted for baptism in the dense thousands, thronging out of their brick towns.†   (source)
  • A gallon of red wine like water and sourdough bread and maybe please god I find an American girl who don't talk heathen languages.†   (source)
  • and make captive the said Penn and his ungodly crew, so that the Lord may be glorified and not mocked on the soil of this new country with the heathen worship or these people.†   (source)
  • If I were a rich ranchero, like you, Manuel, I would do a splendid thing; I would furnish the two mounts that are to carry the word of God about this heathen country, and then I would say to myself: There go my Bishop and my Vicario, on my beautiful cream-coloured mules.†   (source)
  • The laws of the City of God are applied only to his in-group (tribe, church, nation, class, or what not) while the fire of a perpetual holy war is hurled (with good conscience, and indeed a sense of pious service) against whatever uncircumcised, barbarian, heathen, "native," or alien people happens to occupy the position of neighbor.†   (source)
  • He was always a little heathen.†   (source)
  • The air of the bathroom was thick with the smell of a heathen toothpaste.†   (source)
  • Aristophanes was a heathen; and you, Juan, I am afraid, are very little better.†   (source)
  • That fixed in Madeline's mind a conviction that if he was a heathen he was not wholly bad.†   (source)
  • It had all come of reading heathen works exclusively.†   (source)
  • Tha' shapes well enough at it for a young 'un that's lived with heathen.†   (source)
  • These heathen have their ideals, their gods.†   (source)
  • Holy in every sense of the word, both Christian and heathen.†   (source)
  • And you used to say at Talbothays that I was a heathen.†   (source)
  • They were a tight little garrison in a heathen town.†   (source)
  • His hands now loosened, parted, were spread and raised, palms outward, as if in heathen prayer.†   (source)
  • The offspring of a race of heathens, he has in truth been 'as a brand plucked from the burning.'†   (source)
  • Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it.†   (source)
  • Whither, then, could these holy men be journeying so deep into the heathen wilderness?†   (source)
  • Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner.†   (source)
  • Besides, what succour couldst thou have from me, a peaceful Pilgrim, against two armed heathens?†   (source)
  • Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen!†   (source)
  • It's this mixture of Red Bulls and Rivers of Healing (poor heathen, God help him!)†   (source)
  • Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh, and the White Whale's barbs were then tempered.†   (source)
  • They send the Bible to heathen abroad, and neglect the heathen at home.†   (source)
  • I have found many marvels during my sojourn with the heathen, but surely nothing to excel this.†   (source)
  • Under what latitudes reside the heathen to whom we would send light?†   (source)
  • I suppose this child is about a fair sample of what thousands of your heathen are.†   (source)
  • You pray for the heathen abroad; pray also for the heathen at home.†   (source)
  • to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them!†   (source)
  • "The heathen are abroad in goodly numbers," said David; "and, I fear, with evil intent.†   (source)
  • He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with.†   (source)
  • Don't they ever teach you in your history classes that you'd all be heathen Turks if it hadn't been for the Bohemians?†   (source)
  • Clare's mind flew to the impassioned, summer-steeped heathens in the Var Vale, their rosy faces court-patched with cow-droppings; and to one the most impassioned of them all.†   (source)
  • Then a silenter man was the son there of Ecglaf 980
    In the speech of the boasting of works of the battle,
    After when every atheling by craft of the earl
    Over the high roof had look'd on the hand there,
    Yea, the fiend's fingers before his own eyen,
    Each one of the nail-steads most like unto steel,
    Hand-spur of the heathen one; yea, the own claw
    Uncouth of the war-wight.†   (source)
  • An ugly yellow child, naked and pot-bellied like a little heathen god, stood at the foot of the couch, finger in mouth, lost in a profound and calm contemplation of the dying man.†   (source)
  • War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery,—this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law.†   (source)
  • Good deal better to listen to a good old-fashioned sermon than a lot of geography and books and things that nobody needs to know—more 'n enough heathen learning right here in the Thanatopsis.†   (source)
  • You can lick anybody in the class, and when I think of how you're going to bully the poor heathen when you get to be a missionary, and make the kids put on breeches, and marry off all the happy lovers to the wrong people, I could bawl!†   (source)
  • It corrects your heathen state morality with a little Christianity, a little 'individual rights,' a little so-called freedom, that is all.†   (source)
  • Then Mr. Carey said that if Josiah Graves set foot in what was little better than a heathen temple he was not fit to be churchwarden in a Christian parish.†   (source)
  • I had uttered prayers, fetish prayers, had prayed as heathens mutter charms when I was in extremity; but now I prayed indeed, pleading steadfastly and sanely, face to face with the darkness of God.†   (source)
  • No man had ever suffered more inconvenience from his own charity, Christian or heathen, than Phillotson had done in letting Sue go.†   (source)
  • My grandfather's grandmother was seized by an evil Dutch trader two centuries ago; and coming to the valleys of the Hudson and Housatonic, black, little, and lithe, she shivered and shrank in the harsh north winds, looked longingly at the hills, and often crooned a heathen melody to the child between her knees, thus: Do ba-na co-ba, ge-ne me, ge-ne me!†   (source)
  • I care as God's disciple—who cares to save the soul of heathen," he replied, with the lofty tone of prayer.†   (source)
  • In a howe high aloft watched over an hoard,
    A stone-burg full steep; thereunder a path sty'd
    Unknown unto men, and therewithin wended
    Who of men do I know not; for his lust there took he,
    From the hoard of the heathen his hand took away
    A hall-bowl gem-flecked, nowise back did he give it
    Though the herd of the hoard him sleeping beguil'd he
    With thief-craft; and this then found out the king,
    The best of folk-heroes, that wrath-bollen was he.†   (source)
  • The old people in the mountains plant lindens to purify the forest, and to do away with the spells that come from the old trees they say have lasted from heathen times.†   (source)
  • The old twilight-scather
    Found the hoard's joyance standing all open, 2270
    E'en he that, burning, seeketh to burgs,
    The evil drake, naked, that flieth a night-tide,
    With fire encompass'd; of him the earth-dwellers
    Are strongly adrad; wont is he to seek to
    The hoard in the earth, where he the gold heathen
    Winter-old wardeth; nor a whit him it betters.†   (source)
  • Occasionally peeping inside the leaves to see that Venus's arm was not broken, she entered with her heathen load into the most Christian city in the country by an obscure street running parallel to the main one, and round a corner to the side door of the establishment to which she was attached.†   (source)
  • The heathen temple, you mean?†   (source)
  • How many times, in how many lands, had Gustaf Sondelius flattered pro-consuls and persuaded the heathen to let themselves be saved!†   (source)
  • Sir Robert Fairlamb was an excellent fellow, a teller of mess-room stories, one who in a heathen day never smoked till the port had gone seven times round; but he was an execrable governor and a worried governor.†   (source)
  • And then they saw that luxurious little dimple blossom—sybaritic roguishness, a dancing hitch of the robes, the holy lewdness of the heathen priest.†   (source)
  • His papal claim to temporal authority was not made for its own sake; proxy dictatorship was, rather, a means, a path to a redemptive goal, a transitional phase from the heathen state to the kingdom of heaven.†   (source)
  • The tilt of the head suddenly implied roguishness; the lips, still open, smiled lewdly; the sybaritic dimple, familiar from earlier occasions, appeared in one cheek—and there was the dancing heathen priest, who jerked his head in jest and pointed in a cerebral direction.†   (source)
  • Or, conversely, your Renaissance astronomers discovered the truth, and the cosmos is infinite, which means there is no world that transcends the senses, no dualism; the world beyond is absorbed into this world, the polarity of God and nature is annulled, and since the human personality is no longer the battlefield of two hostile principles, but rather harmonious and unified, all human conflict stems from the clash between the interests of the individual and of society as a whole, and so the purpose of the state become the law of morality, just as in good old heathen days.†   (source)
  • Granted, there was no sufficient reason for this sympathy—particularly if one disregarded such things as his heathen name, his status as a model pupil (which, indeed, could have played no role whatever), or those Kirghiz eyes, which from time to time, in certain sidelong glances, when gazing at nothing in particular, could darken, almost melt, to a veiled dusky look—but whatever the reason, Hans Castorp did not worry about the intellectual or emotional basis of his reaction, or even what name he would give it if he had to.†   (source)
  • In short, it was a true regaling cordial, a splendid drink that invigorated, stimulated, and quickened the system—an intoxicating drug, as well, by the way; one could very easily get a little tipsy and mellow from it, he said, gesturing with both fingers and head as he had the night before in the grand jocular fashion that made him resemble a dancing heathen priest.†   (source)
  • For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen, and my christening is taken off me and becomes of no avail.†   (source)
  • That I did not join myself to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen.†   (source)
  • She was brought up by a very heathen father and mother, who never sent her to church or school, and it shows how the sins of the parents are visited upon the children, mem.†   (source)
  • The patron of The Young Amelia proposed as a place of landing the Island of Monte Cristo, which being completely deserted, and having neither soldiers nor revenue officers, seemed to have been placed in the midst of the ocean since the time of the heathen Olympus by Mercury, the god of merchants and robbers, classes of mankind which we in modern times have separated if not made distinct, but which antiquity appears to have included in the same category.†   (source)
  • The shadow of the Saxon hero-king still walks there fitfully, reviewing the scenes of his youth and love-time, and is met by the gloomier shadow of the dreadful heathen Dane, who was stabbed in the midst of his warriors by the sword of an invisible avenger, and who rises on autumn evenings like a white mist from his tumulus on the hill, and hovers in the court of the old hall by the river-side, the spot where he was thus miraculously slain in the days before the old hall was built.†   (source)
  • The driver of the fly turned a supercilious gaze upon them; he even treated the wedded pair themselves with something like condescension; for in what other state than heathen could people, rich or poor, exist who were doomed to abide in such a world's end as Egdon?†   (source)
  • With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who has for several centuries been on duty watching one stream—saving that Jerry had no expectation of their ever running dry.†   (source)
  • If those heathen in our Christian land had as much teaching as some Hindoos, they would think otherwise.†   (source)
  • Yet her features were not of that regular mould which we have been falsely taught to worship in the classical labors of the heathen.†   (source)
  • "Yes," added the other; "and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers."†   (source)
  • Chapter 1 O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray To Buddha at Kamakura!†   (source)
  • Now, as for myself, I overlook altogether your designs ag'in my life; first, because no harm came of 'em; next, because it's your gifts, and natur', and trainin', and I ought not to have trusted you at all; and, finally and chiefly, because I can bear no ill-will to a dying man, whether heathen or Christian.†   (source)
  • So also the singer of the Psalms of Solomon—'Behold, O Lord, and raise up to Israel their king, the son of David, at the time thou knowest, O God, to rule Israel, thy children.... And he will bring the peoples of the heathen under his yoke to serve him.... And he shall be a righteous king taught of God, ...for he shall rule all the earth by the word of his mouth forever.†   (source)
  • the praises of the Lord; that especially the seed of Abraham his servant, and the children of Jacob his chosen (Psalm cv.5, 6), may remember his marvellous works in the beginning and progress of the planting of New England, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth; how that God brought a vine into this wilderness; that he cast out the heathen, and planted it; that he made room for it and caused it to take deep root; and it filled the land (Psalm lxxx.8, 9).†   (source)
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