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Sentences ending with heathen

Immortal Lord, crush Thou this unclean people; Break Thou their necks, annihilate the heathen. [10]
Inside the vast, thick-walled halls it was much cooler than in the streets even, and the hours glided fast to the besieged heathen. [10]
The doors of the sanctuary were closed, and guarded by soldiers; but the southern and western walls were surrounded by thousands and thousands of heathen. [10]
I don't see that you are any better than a heathen. [6]
The wild tumult penetrates even into this room which is so far from the street, and your sons take delight in the disorders of the heathen! [10]
Apollodorus had his own reasons for keeping aloof on this occasion from all that was connected with the holiday doings of the heathen. [10]
Then we grew order and I began to be afraid of her, for she would talk in such a godless way--and she even died a heathen. [10]
The ruined edifice of the Serapeum, the masterpiece of Bryaxis laid in fragments in the dust, and thousands of wailing heathen! [10]
Your clergymen speak of 'the Lawd,' ours of 'the Lord'; yours speak of 'the gawds of the heathen,' ours of 'the gods of the heathen. [5]
The battle was now a hand-to-hand fight; the besiegers had surmounted the barricade and stood face to face with the heathen. [10]

Short sentences using heathen

No heathen shall possess it. [11]
Down with the heathen! [10]
Death to the heathen! [10]

Sentences containing heathen two or more times

I was for enlightening the heathen with it, for I was always unaccountably down on the heathen somehow; but Mrs. McWilliams said no, let's have a burglar alarm. [5]
Even the two Chinamen, mysteriously coming and going, had laughed at him like two heathen gods, and had vanished suddenly like heathen gods. [11]
Of course I am interested in the heathen, but charity--that is where I agree with Uncle Jerry--begins at home, and I don't happen to know a greater heathen than I am. [4]

More example sentences with the word heathen in them

I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
The widow, kneeling with clasped hands, never took her eyes off the face of the youth, nor moved for fear of disturbing the deacon who, as she knew, was praying--praying for the salvation of the heathen soul snatched away before it could repent. [10]
She said something with an edge, her face all snapping angry, threw the things down, and called me a heathen and a wicked heretic--and I don't say now but she'd a right to do it. [11]
To her question why she, a heathen, wore this about her, the old woman replied, "You can never tell what may help you some day. [10]
On the Sundays when the heathen prevailed she studied the congregation, grew to distinguish the local country families; and, if the truth must be told, watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback. [9]
This car, which was decorated with crocodiles, sheaves, dates, grapes, and shells, was hailed with shouts of enthusiasm; it was escorted by old men in the costume of the heathen priesthood. [10]
But now he wants me--he, Sir, is wholly devoted to the heathen gods-and he wants me . [10]
Frequently Paulina received visits from heathen acquaintances in rich dresses and the sight of them always reminded Arsinoe of former days. [10]
I hold it up as a wall between you and the heathen abomination which you hail with joy in your blindness. [10]
If that is true, then fathers no doubt have ten, and you as many as Argus, of whom the heathen legend speaks--But there comes Polykarp. [10]
She had the true instinct of womanhood, and she supposed that a heathen like this could have feelings to be hurt and a life to be wounded as herself or another. [11]
The Bishop was triumphant; his adherents had won the day at every point; nor was he sorry to learn that Olympius, Helladius, Ainmonius and many other spiritual leaders of the heathen world had succeeded in escaping. [10]
The heathen were triumphant, and encouraged the soldiers with loud cries to persist. [10]
She loved him too much, and was too quiet and sensible, to be baptized, and thus expose him, the heathen high-priest, to the danger of being deprived of the power which she knew to be necessary to his happiness. [10]
Have I not told you that the gods of the heathen are unreal beings which the vain imaginings of fools have endowed with all the weaknesses and crimes of humanity? [10]
We are indebted to the arts of the heathen for a thousand things in daily use, beside numberless others that lend charm to existence. [10]
It went on to point out how the heathen had devised their gods in the image of weak, sinful, earthly beings, and chosen victims in accordance with this idea. [10]
I had no time for reflection, for before I could gain any certain information by word of mouth, a captain of the heathen had seized me, and we came to a life and death struggle before Miriam's very eyes. [10]
The doors of the temple were thrown wide open; the temple-servants and hundreds of soldiers were busied in clearing the steps and approaches of the stones and fragments of statuary with which the heathen had encumbered them. [10]
The gods of the old heathen are the servants of to-day. [6]
This was Berenice, the mother of the young heathen who had been ridden down and wounded in the skirmish near the Prefect's house, and whose eyes Eusebius had afterwards closed. [10]
The lives of the mighty heathen, as his Plutarch painted them, would, he said, raise even a weak soul to their greatness and the Consolatio Philosophiae of Boetius would of a surety refresh my stricken heart. [10]
You sum up the matter in one common term: The heathen peasants on the estate. [10]
The captains of the Imperial force had miscalculated the strength of the heathen garrison. [10]
The murmurs of the heathen were suddenly silenced; the multitude were so still that the least sound of one plate of armor against another was audible, that each man could hear his neighbor breathe, and that Gorgo fancied she could hear her own heart throb. [10]
Do not even the heathen the same? [10]
The uproar among the heathen grew louder and louder; fragments of stone and wood came flying towards the spot where the Bishop and officials were standing; but, suddenly, the tumult ceased, and, as if by a miracle, there was silence--perfect silence--in the temple. [10]
A few of the heathen fell, and the sight of their blood had a wonderful effect on their comrades. [10]
The fate of the great god of the heathen was sealed, but in the wide precincts of the Serapeum no one thought of surrender or of prompt defeat. [10]
I can't say that Bedloe was a more unregenerate heathen than I was, but he was pretty bad. [9]
Then, instead of stillness, moans and shrieks from above and below, oaths and prayers in English and French and Portuguese, and in the heathen gibberish of the East. [9]
With a little stick, or maybe his flute under his arm, he'll smile and string these heathen along, when you'd think they weren't waiting for anybody. [11]
The first was stern, imperious, reproachful.--Shame for those that took him in and made him, a ruined reputation, a spoiled tradition: he had been but a heathen after all! [11]
And with the sleepers lie also the bottles wherein were once the curious liquors: and upon them is writ, in ancient letters, such words as these--Dames of heathen gods of olden time, perchance: Rumpunch, Jinsling, Egnog. [5]
On his father's side, bringing down the mad record from Naseby; on his mother's, true to the heathen, by following his impulses --sacred to primitive man, justified by spear, arrow, and a strong arm. [11]
The golden rule should govern us in dealing with those whom we call unbelievers, with heathen, and with all who do not accept our religious views. [6]
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and I will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. [5]
And strange to say, she ever and again came upon these incomprehensible phases of his soul, when the images of the gods, and the idolatrous temples of the heathen, or when their sons' enterprises and work were the matters in hand. [10]
That is quite right, and I am very glad of it; but you must know that he who would gather that rare fruit must water it, as a noble heathen once said, with the sweat of his brow. [10]
They were quite resolved to leave no means untried, not even if heathen magic should be the last resource. [10]
Their philosophy, their religion, whether heathen or human, was inborn. [11]
In all her prayers she included the name of the handsome heathen and a soft tenderness in which a gentle pity was often infused, a grief for his unredeemed soul, was inseparable from all her thoughts of him. [10]
But, like this pillar, outward Beauty--the sense of form that characterized the heathen mind--has survived through the ages. [10]
She pushed the peaches away with a feeling of oppression, and closed her eyes that she might no longer see all these perishable splendors and sinful works of the heathen, which pandered only to the senses. [10]
Such vain trifles, Paulina would say, were very well for the heathen, but the Lord looked not at the body but at the heart. [10]
If we are overcome by the heathen, ungodliness and brute force will boast themselves as though they had won the victory over righteousness and truth! [10]
But time is on my side, time and the Soudan-- and 'The heathen in his blindness. [11]
Before the destruction of the heathen sanctuaries it had been a temple of Imhotep, the Egyptian Esculapius, the beneficient god of healing, who had had his places of special worship even in the city of the dead. [10]
A hundred miles of sun and fair weather, sleeping at night in the open in a trench dug in the snow, no fear in the thoughts of Jim, nor evil in the heart of the heathen man. [11]
Once a sort of heathen, as Mrs. Francis Armour had been, she still could grasp the situation with considerable clearness. [11]
A heathen secretary of Evagrius the Governor, had revealed what was astir, and the philosopher had at once prepared to return to the Serapeum. [10]
The doubtful light of dawn was beginning to break through the storm-clouds as they exhausted their fury on the Serapeum, but the terrified heathen did not notice it. [10]
In all branches of culture, their heathen predecessors went far beyond them. [6]
They take up no cross, neither mortify the flesh by holy fasting, but cherish and feed it as the lost heathen do. [10]
I forgot your necessity in prayer and scourging, in order to recover the peace of mind I had trifled away--no heathen would have done such a thing! [10]
Serapis was no more--the heaven of the heathen had lost its king. [10]
But other foes more deadly than the angry heathen came, and they were called Hunger and Loneliness. [11]
Four of the monks had been butchered out of hand; but Apelles, with a few of the more resolute spirits in the company, had fought the heathen with the valor of a lion. [10]
She had not meant the song to be allusive when she began, but to speak to him through it by singing the heathen song as his own sister might sing it. [11]
But he asked me nothing, and from talking of me--listen to this Father Karnis--and saying that the great Father in Heaven had granted me every good gift, he went on to speak of you as a wicked, perverse and reprobate old heathen. [10]
Attend to me--the maniple will occupy the castle and shoot down on the heathen from hence; when they come carry me into the tower. [10]
No less a man than Florentin has undertaken to recruit for our cause among the heathen officers in the army. [10]
Your sons may make free to take their pleasure among the wives of the heathen; it only remains to be proved whether the heathen husbands will be trifled with or not. [10]
I've done a lot of heathen things in my time. [11]
Then, hesitating a little, she asked if Melissa, being a heathen, had inquired the meaning of this saying. [10]
The congregation have left the church, and I must close it on account of our beautiful new vessels and the heathen robbers. [10]
Song was the language of her heart, and she had learnt by experience that it was a language which even the heathen could both use and understand. [10]
It was the Lament of Isis for her--lost husband and brother--oh that horrible heathen confusion!--The departed Osiris. [10]
Woe came upon Jim Templeton and Arrowhead, the heathen. [11]
These heathen feel it, and keep their hands off him. [11]
Nevertheless, quoth she, it was small marvel that such a heathen Turkish turmoil as we had been living in should beget monstrous fancies in a young maid's brain. [10]
Ere the year is out everything that can remind us of the heathen gods is to be swept away from the hamlets and fields of the pious Mary. [10]
The sanctuary was indeed the centre of Hellenic culture in the city of Alexander; what marvel then, that the heathen should believe that with the overthrow of Serapis and his temple, the earth, nay the universe itself must sink into the abyss? [10]
The congregation gathered in a half-circle round their peaceful brethren, and heard the blessing that their pastor pronounced over the noble victims who had shed their blood in fighting the heathen. [10]
He had played his part as in a drama: his real life was in the distant past and out in the land of the heathen. [11]
The troops at his command were few in number in comparison with the heathen population of the city, and it was a very important matter to keep a large proportion of the worshippers of Serapis occupied elsewhere at the moment of the decisive onset. [10]
The end of her alarms was not yet come, however, for a troop of the young heathen came flying across the square in wild retreat before a division of the heavy cavalry, which had intervened to part the combatants. [10]
She had carried help even into heathen homes, and shrunk from neither fever nor plague. [10]
Look down from heaven on me, beset by foes, By heathen foes--the folk that know Thee not. [10]
He was a heathen, but he had been primed by the missionaries about his daughter. [11]
She was a heathen, and yet she had thrown into her song all that Agne herself could feel when she lifted up her heart in passionate prayer. [10]
I am a heathen, also, you know. [11]
These poor ignorant heathen seem to have had a sort of groping idea of what came of woman eating fruit in the garden of Eden, and they did not choose to take any more chances. [5]
There is the heathen god Eros with his winged sweetheart Psyche smiling in his face. [10]
He loathed the heathen and he showed his loathing. [11]
Magic, enchantments, and heathen abominations may save us. [10]
I shall never hear--" "You'll hear the bosh played-fiddle, they call it in these heathen places--at your second wedding with Jethro Fawe," he rejoined insolently, lighting his cigarette. [11]
He thinks that he only holds the true faith, and ought to fight for it; he calls all artistic work a heathen abomination; he never felt the purifying influence of the beautiful, and regards all pictures and statues as tending to idolatry. [10]
He would perhaps have gone on repeating them, but that he was interrupted; the 'porta libitinaria'--the gate through which the dead or injured were usually carried out, was thrown open, and a rabble of infuriated heathen rushed in, crying: "Serapis is fallen! [10]
I could not have borne to be vanquished before her and I flung the heathen to the ground and slew him with my axe. [10]
She only felt happy to help Selene, to serve her, to be allowed to gaze at her although she was a heathen. [10]
Hannah laid her hand on the widow's arm and whispered: "She is a heathen. [10]
A few monks had crept in, but they were turned out by the heathen with bitter jeers, as unbidden intruders. [10]
They be sendin' goold for Slatin an' Ohrwalder by sooch-like heathen as lie to you. [11]
The Church has given me up as a heathen, ma'am, when I married your cook, and she a Protestant. [9]
What could Sergeant Gellatly expect, riding with a murderer on his left hand: a heathen that had sent a knife through the heart of one of the lords of the North? [11]
If in the future we are rich enough to raise churches to the Almighty, to the Virgin Mary and the great Saints, in any way worthy of their sublime merits, we shall owe our skill to the famous architects of heathen Hellas. [10]
At last, however, friend Fairley rose in his place and said: "The Lord shall deliver the heathen into their hands. [11]
Every Alexandrian was free to belong to any other than the heathen creeds, and no one had taken offence at his skeptical writings. [10]
But she has fallen into the hands of a reprobate heathen, and here, where vice prowls about the city like a roaring lion, she will be lost--lost, if I do not rescue her. [10]

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