paynim

• “Kenneth felt as if, in those wildernesses the waste and dry places in which the foul spirits were wont to wander when expelled the mortals whose forms they possessed, a bare-footed friar would have been a better associate than the gay but unbelieving paynim.”

  The Talisman

• ““Thanks to the Prophet that hath so far honoured our mountains as to send from their bosom him whose word is victory,” answered the paynim.”

  The Talisman

• “They passed, like shadows, into the outer apartment, without disturbing the paynim Emir, who lay still buried in repose.”

  The Talisman

• ““The anchorite whom I would now visit,” said the warlike pilgrim, “is, I have heard, no priest; but were he of that anointed and sacred order, I would prove with my good lance, against paynim and infidel —””

  The Talisman

• ““And for grudging it,” said Tomalin Blacklees, “why shouldst thou grudge the poor paynim devil a drop of drink on earth, since thou knowest he is not to have a drop to cool the tip of his tongue through a long eternity?””

  The Talisman

• “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.””

  The Nibelungenlied

• “This Christian champions did and paynim, too, according to their custom.”

  The Nibelungenlied

• “Grendel's dog Lelaps was thinking of becoming a Muslim, but he found out that the paynim regard dogs as unclean animals.”

  Review - Orphans Of Chaos, by John C. Wright

• ““Thou swearest thy gods in vain, foul paynim,” said”

  Kenilworth

• “It was hard by her cottage that we saw our first mosque, which had begun by being a Gothic church, but had lost itself in paynim hands for centuries, in spite of the lamp always kept burning in it.”

  Familiar Spanish Travels

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