How To Use heathenish In A Sentence
- Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words. Milton
- I am trying to save the children of God from the heathenish ways of the Devil.
- A further description of Baker's performances was: ‘brazen-faced, heathenish dances… which, if permitted, are likely to provoke riots’ .
- Say that to-night as you look around on the grievous famine of the suppletory arts and stratagems of repentance and reformation in your heathenish bedroom. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
- There are some that detest them as a kind of sacrilege and count it the height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such hidden things, rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute of them with such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity with such pithless and sordid terms and opinions. In Praise of Folly
- After the sermon they formed a ring, and with coats off sang, clapped their hands, and stamped their feet in a most ridiculous and heathenish way.
- This first text, therefore, hath been by you abused, in that you have ungodlily strained it, but in vain, to make it warrant your heathenish preparations to faith. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
- For in their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not have willingly dared. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- But Joe chid me, an 'said' tweer a heathenish thing sticked theer by the Phoenicians, as comed for tin in Solomon's times. Lying Prophets
- Confronted with such evidence, it would have been understandable if Europeans had looked at tobacco as so inextricably entwined with heathenish practice that they would want nothing to do with the plant.