HEATHEN in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for HEATHEN, such as:

1. The distinction between being a Christian or a heathen is easy to see but difficult to talk.
2. Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh, and the White Whale's barbs were then tempered.
3. That I did not join myself to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen.

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heathen
 n.  irreligious person; pagan
Classic Sentence:
1  But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me that he must indeed be a heathen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh, and the White Whale's barbs were then tempered.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
3  That I did not join myself to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
4  The heathen are abroad in goodly numbers," said David; "and, I fear, with evil intent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
5  At all events, Miss Ophelia knew of nothing else to do; and, therefore, applied her mind to her heathen with the best diligence she could command.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  '"Tha' shapes well enough at it for a young 'un that's lived with heathen.'
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  At my behest, the armed warrior lays his shield aside; the heathen leaves the Altar steaming with unholy sacrifice.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
8  It could not have been expected that a people who had spent generations in slavery, and before that generations in the darkest heathenism, could at first form any proper conception of what an education meant.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
9  He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
10  Never before, he thought, had he been in such a coarse and ignorant company; one might almost fancy the people had turned heathens again.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
Example Sentence:
1  If, indeed, such salvation be possible, for this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut.
2  The distinction between being a Christian or a heathen is easy to see but difficult to talk.
3  The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.