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  • Mrs. Fitzpatrick, with fine contempt of "haythen" skill and efficiency, came upon the scene and took command.

    The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Ralph Connor 1898

  • He rushed forward with fixed bayonet, risking punishment for breaking rank, and swearing by his forefathers that he would kill the "haythen," rescued Allen.

    The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys John De Morgan 1887

  • Home that might make a lass forget such a haythen land as this, though God knew if it would ever get out av th 'bad dreams at night!

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

  • 'Folk do say in the village that you met with a deal o' trouble out in them foreign parts, and some haythen rascal robbed you of all you stood up in.

    The Carved Cupboard Amy le Feuvre

  • "It do beat all nater to see that pious old gurrl so fond of a haythen creetur that's enough to disgrace a pirate hisself; an 'the quareness of it just gets me, it do."

    Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

  • Ye poor prayer-dhrivlin 'haythen, wid yer limon av a hear-rt ye've got a yallar shtripe that raches to th' length an 'width av ye.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • "I was right there, busy with me cookie 'utensils," she said l Miss Linda was a-sittin, on that exact spot, they jist havin 1 finished atin 'some of her haythen messes; and the lad was lyin, square where the boulder struck, on the Indian blanket, atin' a pace of cactus candy.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • "What's any of them little haythen been coin 'to scare ye, missy?" she demanded belligerently.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • The men liked him, for he had been known to "turn to" and work at a bush fire "as hearty as if he weren't a fat little image av a haythen," said Murty O'Toole; Norah was always delighted when old Ram Das came up the track, his unwieldy body on two amazingly lean legs.

    Mates at Billabong 1911

  • You and me, if we hold on, is just about goin 'to play hell with the haythen.

    The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908

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