“Thou swearest thy gods in vain, foul paynim,” said. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
And all were it so, that he was a paynim and not worthy to be heard, yet. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
Job was a paynim, and he was Aram of Gosre, his son, and held that land as prince of that country. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
The juice of the paynim poppies had quieted Columbanus more than once when his religious fervour prostrated him. From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
They passed, like shadows, into the outer apartment, without disturbing the paynim Emir, who lay still buried in repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Once, true, I fought for the paynim, but the gentle and chivalrous knight who overcame me also won me to the True Faith. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Grendel's dog Lelaps was thinking of becoming a Muslim, but he found out that the paynim regard dogs as unclean animals. From Wordnik.com. [Review - Orphans Of Chaos, by John C. Wright] Reference
Palomides that was a paynim as well as he, and she gave him warning that she had sent him her pensel, and if he might overcome. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
There he dwelt until the paynim again menaced France, a hundred years later, and thence he sallied forth to conquer them anew. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
To Rudeger she spake: "Had I not heard that he were a paynim, gladly would I go whithersoever he listed and would take him to my husband.". From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Naturally, the story of the fight with the paynim oppressors of beauty came out in his talk soon after its occurrence, and lost nothing in the telling. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disinherited this felon paynim and consumed him; and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
And so by fortune they came into this land, that at that time was called Great Britain; and there they found a great felon paynim, that put Joseph into prison. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Had borne the bloody cross, and warr'd on paynim ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of Marie] Reference
The foresaid S. Anastasia was married unto a paynim named. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 2] Reference
BRUN'CHEVAL "the Bold," a paynim knight, who tilted with sir. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
S. Anastasia was daughter to a gentleman of the Romans, but he was a paynim. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 2] Reference
Thou art a Didymus, Bardolph; -- an incredulous paynim, a most unspeculative rogue!. From Wordnik.com. [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference
This man had no more faith than a paynim, but, none the less, was a stout carl in war. From Wordnik.com. [A Monk of Fife] Reference
"Mother says," Eleanor ventured shyly, "that you are going away to live among the paynim.". From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
Giles the miller appeared as Beelzebub to avenge the defeat of the paynim, and was routed in fine style. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
S. Savien and Savina his sister were children of Savininus, a right noble paynim. and was twice married. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
For he had liefer have died than not to understand the letter, for he might not understand paynim speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
And there was in prison a paynim named Lucillus, which had lost the sight of his eyes with overmuch weeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 4] Reference
Rest he has never had; the paynim folk have killed him the flower of his friends, Roland at Roncevaux and now Baldwin. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference
Mammertin was first a paynim and worshipped idols, and it happed on a time he lost his one eye and his hand was dried up. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
Washington family, and not taken from the standard of those paynim corsairs; but there is poignant instant when one trembles. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
Alack-a-day! my poor cat Hinse, my acquaintance, and in some sort my friend of fifteen years, was snapped at even by the paynim. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
In the time that Maximian reigned there was a rich man, a paynim, which adored and worshipped the idols, which man was named Dioscorus. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 6] Reference
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