1 A pagan hearing the lapping of the waters around Charon's boat could not have felt more desolate.
2 He came up the walk with the springy stride of a savage and his fine head was carried like a pagan prince.
3 There was about his movements the same pagan freedom and leashed power Scarlett had noted that night Atlanta fell, something sinister and a little frightening.
4 I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
5 Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
6 He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
7 He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.
8 Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship's stokers.
9 Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, and fast bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh to his endless end.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. 10 But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
11 The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled.
12 He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.
13 But let the mass be forever pagan.
14 But the colliers aren't pagan, far from it.
15 Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN