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  • Apart from Andy—cryptic, isolated, self-sufficient, incapable of dishonesty and completely lacking in both malice and charisma—the other Barbours, even Todd, all had something slightly uncanny about them, a watchful, sly amalgam of decorum and mischief that made it all too easy to imagine their forebears gathering in the forest by night, casting off their Puritan garb to frolic by the pagan bonfire.†   (source)
  • Por uno pagan todos.†   (source)
  • Now, I am happy to say, I am a simple pagan.†   (source)
  • So address me as Re'lar, go back to your bunk, and thank whatever pagan God you pray to that we're not in Vintas.†   (source)
  • Beowulf is largely about the coming of Christianity into the old paganism of northern Germanic society—after being about a hero overcoming a villain.†   (source)
  • This isn't going to be some freaky pagan sex thing, is it?†   (source)
  • So they merely dressed up as Roman guards, standing around the tomb laughing with pagan satisfaction because they'd managed to kill God, and then in the second act, leaping about, showing great dismay to find the stone rolled back.†   (source)
  • Dancing and Wild Pagan Sacrifices to Follow†   (source)
  • And if there was enchantment, it was not divine but pagan (momma untie your apron strings i'm getting big) and she wanted it that way.†   (source)
  • Pagan Greeks did it-Plato called it theornania.†   (source)
  • She had noticed that her sister-in-law was always exhausted at the end of the sessions where she served as medium, and she would begin to speak in pagan tongues, and in a voice that was not her own.†   (source)
  • The furnishings in the reception rooms, including the pendulum clock that stood like a living sentinel in the drawing room, were all original English pieces from the late nineteenth century, and the lamps that hung from the walls were all teardrop crystal, and there were Sevres vases and bowls everywhere and little alabaster statues of pagan idylls.†   (source)
  • I knew I had witnessed a miraculous thing, the appearance of a pagan god, a thing as miraculous as the curing of my uncle Lucas.†   (source)
  • Jessica felt the verbal music in her breast—pagan and charged with sounds that made her suddenly and intensely aware of herself, feeling her own body and its needs.†   (source)
  • I'm guessing she believes Brittain was victimized by a couple of insensitive pagan mermen.†   (source)
  • What is that, some kind of pagan symbol?†   (source)
  • "You're pagans," I say, taking the condom with two fingers and dropping it in Lindsay's glove compartment.†   (source)
  • They were being assaulted by the saxophonist who perhaps no longer wanted their love and merely hurled his outrage at them with the same contemptuous, pagan pride with which he humped the air.†   (source)
  • Mr. Harris, when our pagan ancestors back in Yorkshire and Saxony were using their enemies' skulls as a plate to serve food, these Christians here were singing the psalms.†   (source)
  • I couldn't feel anything but despair until I pulled into the familiar parking lot behind Forks High School and spotted Edward leaning motionlessly against his polished silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagan god of beauty.†   (source)
  • And once we drove along a dirt road somewhere near Ruby, Arizona and saw four men on horseback driving a bull, a humped bull of amazing size, nearly unreal, and we stopped not only to watch and not only because we thought the animal might charge a moving car but out of a strange and pagan respect, an animal so awesome, a Brahma bull, and the cowboys waved and drove the bull down the red dirt road.†   (source)
  • "How can you allow such a pagan celebration?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Then he let out a piercing shriek suddenly and bolted toward the door in a headlong dash back toward the enlisted men's apartment for his camera, only to be halted in his tracks with another frantic shriek by the dreadful, freezing premonition that this whole lovely, lurid, rich and colorful pagan paradise would be snatched away from him irredeemably if he were to let it out of his sight for even an instant.†   (source)
  • Or that he was hiking his way through Hawkins Wood to camp out at the expressly forbidden Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • "I'm not singing no pagan mumbo jumbo!" said Foxlip, and he snatched up his bowl and took a long swig, while Daphne tried not to scream.†   (source)
  • It isn't just the Pagan or Roman but the Norse, the Germanic, the Celtic.†   (source)
  • But I blinked and thus beheld only a pagan king wrapped beneath a rich black cloak.†   (source)
  • There was an old story about an Indian tribe planting the trees as part of their pagan rituals, but who knows?†   (source)
  • And people liked not to hear the rector calling him Anteros, after one of the old Puritans told them it was the name of a pagan idol.†   (source)
  • As she glided to a chair like some sort of pagan sex goddess, Eve patted Feeney's leg in support—and restraint.†   (source)
  • Steele, Raymond, and Wilson were unsettled by what they saw as a decidedly pagan celebration.†   (source)
  • I Agree with a Pagan.†   (source)
  • JANE I think you've shocked his big pagan heart bless him.†   (source)
  • This Halloween light in August, as orange as pumpkin lanterns but leaping high from pits in the sand, made even the innocent seem like debauched pagans in its glow.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Not an atheist, Martha ....a pagan.†   (source)
  • Later on, Tayo wondered if she liked it that way, going to church by herself, where she could show the people that she was a devout Christian and not immoral or pagan like the rest of the family.†   (source)
  • I am more moved by his pagan beliefs.†   (source)
  • My ears echoed with a delirious, inconsolable passage from the St. Matthew Passion which had wept out of Sophie's radio earlier that morning, and for no special reason yet in fitting 'antiphony I recalled some seventeenth-century lines I had read not long before: "...since Death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ..."†   (source)
  • BRADY I am not in the least interested in the pagan hypotheses of that book.†   (source)
  • A ruptured goat with a thinking head, Aware that maidens fall betrayed not by My pagan code but out of their own dumb need As I fall headwords, raging thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • It might well have been the site of an ancient pagan shrine, where prayers and sacrifices had once been offered by unknown worshippers.†   (source)
  • If pagan, call your false gods.†   (source)
  • Late at night they play the one waltz they will ever consent to play— by request, "Pagan Love Song."†   (source)
  • The fate of pious pagans, such as Socrates and Plato, also puzzled some Christians...   (source)
  • As with the previous theory, proponents of this theory hold that Christmas was a date of significance to Christians before it was a date of significance to pagans.   (source)
  • I see it whole, on top of the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • We go to the Pagan Stone, all of us together.†   (source)
  • I know you're a part of this, and I know you have to go back to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • On its ground the Pagan Stone stood silent, waiting for their return.†   (source)
  • And he was coming up short on excuses to put off the hike to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • When he'd led her to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • The dog shivered at Cal's command, but rose, and with its side pressed to Cal's legs, walked down the trail toward the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans.†   (source)
  • Many of us celebrate nature the way the pagans did, and don't even know it.†   (source)
  • We let the sun beat down on us, and like pagans we listened to the lapping water and the song of life in the grass around us.†   (source)
  • Sicilian pagans ordered Agatha to give up her faith in Jesus and like all the virgin martyrs she said, Nay.†   (source)
  • Tourists, scientists, historians, and pagans from around the world came to Saint-Sulpice to gaze upon this famous line.†   (source)
  • Christians and pagans began warring, and the conflict grew to such proportions that it threatened to rend Rome in two.†   (source)
  • "Pagans" were literally unindoctrinated country-folk who clung to the old, rural religions of Nature worship.†   (source)
  • Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity.†   (source)
  • In the battle between the pagan symbols and Christian symbols, the pagans lost; Poseidon's trident became the devil's pitchfork, the wise crone's pointed hat became the symbol of a witch, and Venus's pentacle became a sign of the devil.†   (source)
  • The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many.†   (source)
  • For the great priestesses, the venerable Druids, the noble pagans believed that here the spirits walked—†   (source)
  • When I made so bold as to ask Mr. Mompellion about it, he had only laughed and said that even Puritans should recall that pagans, too, are children of God and their stories part of His creation.†   (source)
  • The tardy evidence of her involuntary paganism made her even more upset.†   (source)
  • An atheist and a Muslim walk into a pagan afterlife.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps you have only pagan rites here," Feyd-Rautha said.†   (source)
  • The entire mound was draped with pagan figures.†   (source)
  • My pagan mother alone among us understood redemption.†   (source)
  • A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.†   (source)
  • Ah, you're thinking I'm a crazy old pagan for sure.†   (source)
  • The lone dove is the pagan symbol for the Angel of Peace.†   (source)
  • It is the water that binds you to the pagan god of Cico, the golden carp!†   (source)
  • "To a pagan," he concluded, "the Shrike is a most acceptable deity."†   (source)
  • Below that the twelve signs of the zodiac-pagan, earthly symbols rooted in astronomy.†   (source)
  • But Leah crossed her arms and asked, "Do you mean praying to their own pagan gods?"†   (source)
  • I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories.†   (source)
  • The Fountain of the Four Rivers was a pagan work.†   (source)
  • Hymns to their pagan gods and false idols?†   (source)
  • Bernini had chosen the pagan symbol for the angel so he could disguise it in a pagan fountain.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, the term pagan had become almost synonymous with devil worship—a gross misconception.†   (source)
  • The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.†   (source)
  • Why would a pagan emperor choose Christianity as the official religion?†   (source)
  • More like the pagan goddess worship cult.†   (source)
  • The circular room seemed custom-built for such a pagan rite.†   (source)
  • Primarily, the pentacle is a pagan religious symbol.†   (source)
  • It was a gnomon, Silas had been told, a pagan astronomical device like a sundial.†   (source)
  • Traditional American Thanksgiving tables still bore pagan, horned fertility symbols.†   (source)
  • The roots of iambic pentameter were deeply pagan.†   (source)
  • Her grandfather knew more about pagan iconography than anyone else on earth.†   (source)
  • The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable.†   (source)
  • He was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest.†   (source)
  • When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily.†   (source)
  • You're telling me this group is a pagan goddess worship cult?†   (source)
  • Be nice to have a booty-kicking army of pagan zombies on our side when we enter the House of Hades.†   (source)
  • I don't know what pagan is, but it sounds wicked.†   (source)
  • To religious believers this may sound almost pagan.†   (source)
  • (To HONEY and NICK) Martha is the only true pagan on the Eastern Seaboard†   (source)
  • It's a pagan sort of ....," he said, and patted his forehead.†   (source)
  • The old pagan wanted him to stay and carry on some family tradition or the other.†   (source)
  • Max found them horrifying—pagan dolls that had been jolted to life and set to a dark purpose.†   (source)
  • "A mystical sect of early Christians, more pagan than Christian, really," Miss McCleethy answers.†   (source)
  • Today, just before I turned off onto Pagan Road.†   (source)
  • But now, how about playing guide and taking me to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • Who do you think planted the seeds at the Pagan Stone?†   (source)
  • But Gage was pushing on, anxious to get to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • Don't get any ideas about Lois Laning it and trying to find the Pagan Stone on your own.†   (source)
  • He'd arranged to take Sunday off so the entire group could hike to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • And Hester Deale gave birth to a daughter eight months after the killing blaze at the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • And, maybe most important, seen the Pagan Stone in person.†   (source)
  • At the Pagan Stone we swear an oath of loyalty and truth and brotherhood.†   (source)
  • We camped out at the Pagan Stone one fateful night, and screwed the monkey.†   (source)
  • Fox added more wood to the fire so that the flames crackled as they stood by the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • As far as the Pagan Stone goes, I talked with Fox and Gage about that last night.†   (source)
  • To one of us, the town, the incident at the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • He thought, they all thought of what had come out of the ground at the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • But it was the Pagan Stone long before the arrival of Giles Dent or Lazarus Twisse.†   (source)
  • Thumbnail: The town includes an area in the woods known as the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • I said I'd take you to the Pagan Stone tomorrow, and I will.†   (source)
  • She'd met two of the three focal players, had an appointment to hike to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • his pagan body stiffened and flamed and the women laughed.†   (source)
  • The Penitentiary itself is in the style of a Greek temple, and they are very proud of it here; though which pagan god is intended to be worshipped therein, I have yet to discover.†   (source)
  • As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieval Christianity and the evolution of the Russian "KGB" from the czarist secret service that preceded it; and Gilead was no exception to this rule.†   (source)
  • Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.†   (source)
  • It got its name from the original religion practiced there-Pantheism-the worship of all gods, specifically the pagan gods of Mother Earth.†   (source)
  • The behavior that the Reverend Wayne promulgates through his television shows, pamphlets, and franchises can be traced in an unbroken line back to the Pentecostal cults of early Christianity, and from there back to pagan glossolalia cults.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba reminded him that he was not welcome to use the house as an academy and warned him that he would not tolerate his putting pagan ideas into Alba's head, much less teaching her his fakir's tricks.†   (source)
  • But Aureliano, Segundo, excited at the caprice of disguising himself as a tiger, brought Father Antonio Isabel to the house in order to convince Ursula that the carnival was not a pagan feast, as she said, but a Catholic tradition.†   (source)
  • Wild pagan sacrifices?†   (source)
  • Her father wanted her to marry a pagan king but she said, I'll go away for awhile, three years, and think about it.†   (source)
  • We followed neither the laws of God or of your pagan god, and we paid no heed to the magic of your Ultima.†   (source)
  • She says I'll have plenty of time to reflect on my sins in the big ward upstairs and I should beg God's forgiveness for my disobedience reciting a pagan English poem about a thief on a horse and a maiden with red lips who commits a terrible sin when I could have been praying or reading the life of a saint.†   (source)
  • It is not difficult, I have learned, to remain a pre-Copernican pagan in the postscientific Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Mother has a pagan's appreciation for the Bible, being devoted to such phrases as "purge me with hyssop," and "strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round," and "thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness."†   (source)
  • December twenty-fifth, my friends, is the ancient pagan holiday of sol invictus-Unconquered Sun-coinciding with the winter solstice.†   (source)
  • The statues were pagan Olympian Gods.†   (source)
  • Sadly, Langdon knew they once contained statues of the Olympian gods, but the pagan sculptures had been destroyed when the Vatican converted the Pantheon to a Christian church.†   (source)
  • When the early Christian converts abandoned their former deities-pagan gods, Roman gods, Greek, sun, Mithraic, whatever-they asked the church what their new Christian God looked like.†   (source)
  • The fountain is pagan!†   (source)
  • Pagan gods.†   (source)
  • On the back, Collet found notations scrawled in English, describing a cathedral's long hollow nave as a secret pagan tribute to a woman's womb.†   (source)
  • Most of Disney's hidden messages dealt with religion, pagan myth, and stories of the subjugated goddess.†   (source)
  • Specifically, the Church accused the Templars of secretly performing rituals in which they prayed to a carved stone head...the pagan god—†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly explained to Sophie that Baphomet was a pagan fertility god associated with the creative force of reproduction.†   (source)
  • It was an ancient sundial of sorts, a vestige of the pagan temple that had once stood on this very spot.†   (source)
  • God's hand is evident in Nature, and even to this day there exist pagan, Mother Earth-revering religions.†   (source)
  • The architecture is pagan to the core.†   (source)
  • Langdon had even given a lecture once at the National Gallery in London entitled: "The Secret Life of Leonardo: Pagan Symbolism in Christian Art."†   (source)
  • The Da Vinci she had grabbed, much like the Mona Lisa, was notorious among art historians for its plethora of hidden pagan symbolism.†   (source)
  • Their brutal crusade to "reeducate" the pagan and feminine-worshipping religions spanned three centuries, employing methods as inspired as they were horrific.†   (source)
  • I assumed he'd heard I would be lecturing on the pagan iconography of French cathedrals, was interested in the topic, and thought it would be fun to meet for drinks after the talk.†   (source)
  • To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute—Sunday.†   (source)
  • If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that?†   (source)
  • This not only precluded further pagan challenges to Christianity, but now the followers of Christ were able to redeem themselves only via the established sacred channel—the Roman Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • Tonight's lecture—a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral—had probably ruffled some conservative feathers in the audience.†   (source)
  • By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.†   (source)
  • "Originally," Langdon said, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun."†   (source)
  • Built by the Knights Templar in 1446, the chapel is engraved with a mind-boggling array of symbols from the Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Masonic, and pagan traditions.†   (source)
  • The boxy annex jutting out to the right was an unfortunate eyesore, although it did little to shroud the original pagan shape of the primary structure.†   (source)
  • In the battle between the pagan symbols and Christian symbols, the pagans lost; Poseidon's trident became the devil's pitchfork, the wise crone's pointed hat became the symbol of a witch, and Venus's pentacle became a sign of the devil.†   (source)
  • As part of the Vatican's campaign to eradicate pagan religions and convert the masses to Christianity, the Church launched a smear campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine symbols as evil.†   (source)
  • Although Langdon suspected this was more of a cartoonist's sophomoric prank than any kind of enlightened allusion to pagan human sexuality, he had learned not to underestimate Disney's grasp of symbolism.†   (source)
  • Knights who claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned nonbelievers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine."†   (source)
  • A word of five letters, Langdon thought, pondering the staggering number of ancient words that might be considered words of wisdom—selections from mystic chants, astrological prophecies, secret society inductions, Wicca incantations, Egyptian magic spells, pagan mantras—the list was endless.†   (source)
  • A secret pagan cult?†   (source)
  • Pantheonically pagan!†   (source)
  • Pagan?†   (source)
  • The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.†   (source)
  • He was the last great pagan emperor!†   (source)
  • "Still," she said, "if anyone found out about my other life ...I don't think Mr. Fadlan would be okay with his eldest son marrying a girl who moonlights as a soul collector for pagan gods."†   (source)
  • In front of the United Cigar Store on this before-noon Sunday with the bells of all churches ringing across here, colliding with each other there, showering sound from the sky now that the rain was spent, in front of the cigar store the Cherokee wooden Indian stood, his carved plumes pearled with water, oblivious to Catholic or Baptist bells, oblivious to the steadily approaching sun-bright cymbals, the thumping pagan heart of the carnival band.†   (source)
  • To my Christian upbringing this reeked of paganism and sinful talk-but I had crossed over long ago in my prayers.†   (source)
  • There are entries on the Druids, the Gnostics, witchcraft, and paganism, a few illustrations that add nothing.†   (source)
  • There was no tolerance when I announced to my third-grade class that Santa Claus was pagan and a lie.†   (source)
  • It was a hall of sorts, crowded with men, many of whom were surprised to find themselves participating in such a pagan ritual.†   (source)
  • I agree with Symmachus, the pagan philosopher who put the case for toleration to a victorious Christian church, and I will end by quoting his words: "The universe is too great a mystery for there to be only one single approach to it.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to be in that town and not be in the shadow of those great towers; impossible to find oneself on those plains and not be troubled by that cruel and elegant, dogmatic and pagan presence.†   (source)
  • Pagan!†   (source)
  • A pagan warrior.†   (source)
  • Cal, she was sure, had been dodging and weaving, avoiding and evading her since their hike to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • What if he got blood poisoning, got all delirious or something when they were all the way to the Pagan Stone?†   (source)
  • We're turning ten at the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • People, when they spoke of it at all, said the Pagan Stone was just a big rock that pushed out of the ground.†   (source)
  • "Soon," she promised, and turned to take the road winding by the woods she knew held the Pagan Stone at their heart.†   (source)
  • There are some accounts that claim he was known as the Pagan, and that this was the basis of the name the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • The three pieces that he now knew formed the stone in the amulet Giles Dent had worn when he'd lived at the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • Or it could be that when whatever happened at the Pagan Stone happened, the bloodstone split because its power was damaged.†   (source)
  • The two other times he'd been talked into hiking all the way to the Pagan Stone he'd felt exactly the same.†   (source)
  • No. You think we're related back when, or I'm related to someone who was involved in whatever happened at the Pagan Stone way back when?†   (source)
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