Sentence examples for heathenish from inspiring English sources

Remember the matron who objects to Hester Prynne's scarlet letter: "Why, look you, she may cover it with a brooch, or suchlike heathenish adornment, and so walk the streets as brave as ever!"But voters appear to be comfortable on the high horse.

Then, they were brutal and heathenish.

Why, look you, she may cover it with a brooch, or such like, heathenish adornment, and so walk the streets as brave as ever!" "Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart".

But Jane Eyre was also attacked for its "coarseness of taste", "total ignorance of the habits of society", "heathenish doctrine of religion" and possible links to the Chartist rebellions and revolutions in Europe.

To paraphrase the Bible (forgive me and my heathenish ways), when you are a child, you speak as a child and you dress as a child.

The Occasion of which Insufferable Disaster... we can Attribute to nothing more than the Excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor called coffee".