All 3 Uses of
pagan
in
Middlemarch
- Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.†
Chpt 1
- After he was gone, Dorothea dwelt with some agitation on this indifference of his; and her mind was much exercised with arguments drawn from the varying conditions of climate which modify human needs, and from the admitted wickedness of pagan despots.†
Chpt 1
- He had nothing to say against the last four; but he regarded them as a reverential pagan regarded other gods than his own.†
Chpt 3 *
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