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"Heathenish," said Mrs. Jones, and though her steady gaze was set upon the Tower of Jewels I knew she was making no reference to its architecture.
THE HUSSY 2010
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"Heathenish," said Mrs. Jones, and though her steady gaze was set upon the Tower of Jewels I knew she was making no reference to its architecture.
The Hussy 1918
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"Heathenish," said Mrs. Jones, and though her steady gaze was set upon the Tower of Jewels I knew she was making no reference to its architecture.
The Red One Jack London 1896
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The Women's Petition Against Coffee of 1674 claimed all-male coffee houses were responsible for "a very sensible Decay of that Old English Vigour . . ." by promoting "the excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish liquor called Coffee, which . . . has so Eunucht our Husbands and Crippled our more kind gallants they come from it with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiffe but their Joints . . ."
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Two or three among 'em being sweet-tooth'd, wou'd strew a little Sugar over their Dumplings; this was represented as an _Heathenish Offering_.
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Protection of the most Distinguish'd, whose Approbation produces a kind of Inspiration, much superior to that which the _Heathenish_ Poets pretended to derive from their Fictitious _Apollo_: So it was my
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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'Heathenish! quite heathenish!' added the lazy gentleman.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Obstacles are added to the fondness they have for their old Heathenish
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912
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To answer the question therefore affirmatively, as I perceive you have done, and to accept of as authentic such answer, is both Heathenish, Hypocritical, and Devilish, and your Reward will be according to your Works.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The First Part. Paras. 500-599 1909
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Winstanley, who was an enemy of what he called "this Heathenish Weed," and who thought the
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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