Sample Sentences for
pagan
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    The Reverend said he did not want any trouble with savages and pagans and such.  (source)
    pagans = an offensive term for people who follow non-mainstream religions
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    Did you know that when Christian cavalry first appeared in the New World, the pagans thought horse and rider was one person?  (source)
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    Dancing and Wild Pagan Sacrifices to Follow†  (source)
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    "Perhaps you have only pagan rites here," Feyd-Rautha said.†  (source)
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    Even the pagans of Wales and Ireland eventually decided that we were all malevolent faeries and shape-shifting ghosts.†  (source)
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    It was hard to remember when one summer day after another broke with a cool effulgence over us, and there was a breath of widening life in the morning air—something hard to describe—an oxygen intoxicant, a shining northern paganism, some odor, some feeling so hopelessly promising that I would fall back in my bed on guard against it.†  (source)
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    What is that, some kind of pagan symbol?†  (source)
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    The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many.†  (source)
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    Beowulf is largely about the coming of Christianity into the old paganism of northern Germanic society—after being about a hero overcoming a villain.†  (source)
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    Now, I am happy to say, I am a simple pagan.†  (source)
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    This Halloween light in August, as orange as pumpkin lanterns but leaping high from pits in the sand, made even the innocent seem like debauched pagans in its glow.†  (source)
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    But the Marquesa did not only satisfy the rites of paganism; she studied the prescriptions of Christianity as well.†  (source)
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    Pagan Greeks did it-Plato called it theornania.†  (source)
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