How To Use Paynim In A Sentence
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Before they could reach the Ghul, the enemy had slain his steed and taken him prisoner; but they ceased not to charge the Infidels, till the day grew dark for dust and eyes were blinded, and the sharp sword clanged while firm stood the valiant cavalier and destruction overtook the faint-heart in his fear; till the Moslems were amongst the Paynims like a white patch on a black bull. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Grendel's dog Lelaps was thinking of becoming a Muslim, but he found out that the paynim regard dogs as unclean animals.
Review - Orphans Of Chaos, by John C. Wright
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“And for grudging it,” said Tomalin Blacklees, “why shouldst thou grudge the poor paynim devil a drop of drink on earth, since thou knowest he is not to have a drop to cool the tip of his tongue through a long eternity?”
The Talisman
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They passed, like shadows, into the outer apartment, without disturbing the paynim Emir, who lay still buried in repose.
The Talisman
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Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim
Ivanhoe
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This Christian champions did and paynim, too, according to their custom.
The Nibelungenlied
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Kenneth felt as if, in those wildernesses the waste and dry places in which the foul spirits were wont to wander when expelled the mortals whose forms they possessed, a bare-footed friar would have been a better associate than the gay but unbelieving paynim.
The Talisman
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And so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that hight Mondrames, and he assembled all his people for the great renown he had heard of Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disherited this felon paynim and consumed him, and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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“The anchorite whom I would now visit,” said the warlike pilgrim, “is, I have heard, no priest; but were he of that anointed and sacred order, I would prove with my good lance, against paynim and infidel —”
The Talisman
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Rome which is called the market of Trajan, and then he remembered of the justice and other good deeds of Trajan, and how he had been piteous and debonair, and was much sorrowful that he had been a paynim, and he turned to the church of S. Peter wailing for the horror of the miscreance of Trajan.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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“Thanks to the Prophet that hath so far honoured our mountains as to send from their bosom him whose word is victory,” answered the paynim.
The Talisman
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Then the damosel sent unto Corsabrin, and bade him go unto Sir Palomides that was a paynim as well as he, and she gave him warning that she had sent him her pensel, and if he might overcome Palomides she would wed him.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2
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It was hard by her cottage that we saw our first mosque, which had begun by being a Gothic church, but had lost itself in paynim hands for centuries, in spite of the lamp always kept burning in it.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Palomides that was a paynim as well as he, and she gave him warning that she had sent him her pensel, and if he might overcome
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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“But, certes,” said he, “the foul paynim met his match; for, ever as he foined at me with his brand, I parried his blows with my bauble, and closing with him upon the third veny, threw him to the ground, and made him cryrecreant to an unarmed man.”
Waverley
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Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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“Thou swearest thy gods in vain, foul paynim,” said
Kenilworth
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To Rudeger she spake: “Had I not heard that he were a paynim, gladly would I go whithersoever he listed and would take him to my husband.”
The Nibelungenlied
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Thou art a Didymus, Bardolph; -- an incredulous paynim, a most unspeculative rogue!
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
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The Paynim hastened to the dungeon, and brought forth the Count, bearded, unkempt and foredone.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
