fire-worshiper

The one feature, however, connected with the fire which impressed us most forcibly was the fact that Botelwalla, our neighbor and fire-worshiper, did not allow his religious scruples to interfere with the safety of his valuable personal possessions.

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

One day he came to our home to make a social visit and, taking it for granted that he was a fire-worshiper, I inquired whether he came from Persia.

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

The fire-worshiper of ancient times, the fierce tribesman, the savage hunter and fisher, the religion-making nomad, the daring pirate, the bedecked barbarian, the elemental fighter with nature and fellow and rival of every kind, the master of the world in making -- comes before you in dramatic and often pathetic array in the unfolding life of the ordinary boy.

The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben

He could easily have been a veritable fire-worshiper instead of an orthodox Christian!

Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements 1915

Farquharson sat entranced before the spectacle, chanting to himself a kind of insane ritual, like a Parsee fire-worshiper making obeisance before his god.

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

She remembered that he said he thought his “intensest pleasure in life had been to watch the growth of flowers,” but she was sure he never felt their beauty more devoutly “than the little half-savage being who knelt, like a fire-worshiper, to watch the unfolding of those golden disks.”

Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896

He could easily have been a veritable fire-worshiper instead of an orthodox Christian!

Acres of Diamonds: our every-day opportunities Russell Herman Conwell 1884

But it seems that they were so considered in Greece as early as the fifth century B.C., [1569] and after the Moslem conquest of Persia and the suppression of Zoroastrianism a fire-worshiper or

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

Perched in a leafless tree, there he sits, facing the sun like a genuine fire-worshiper, and singing as though he would pour out his very soul.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

She remembered that he said he thought his "intensest pleasure in life had been to watch the growth of flowers," but she was sure he never felt their beauty more devoutly "than the little half-savage being who knelt, like a fire-worshiper, to watch the unfolding of those golden disks."

Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874