Missionary's concerns

Usage examples of heathens.

It fuels the street scuffles between gangs of youths from Dawsonite and anti-Dawsonite neighborhoods, and between heathens and Christians, that are a regular part of the annual buildup to St.

Nowadays its hundred or so blocks were the bright and lively haunt of alcoholics, agnostics, artists, atheists, beggars, cutthroats, deserters, drug dealers, evangelists, footpads, gentry, heathens, informers, jays, knife grinders, lesbians, libertines, mollyboys, musicians, navvies, ostlers, physicians, queers, recruiters, reformers, sailors, socialists, trulls, users, vagabonds, watchmakers, xenophiles, and yuppies.

Together they walked across to the shed where the heathens stashed their gliders.

The way it's taught here, Dawson was a preacher who taught the heathens they could keep right on being heathens, and who mocked the bishops of the church to their faces, and whose followers tortured and massacred every convert they could find up in the big valley.

At the last moment the heathens leapt farther apart and lashed out with feet and fists, taking down the two of the attackers who'd gone straight for them.

Gail led the heathens in, sat them down, planted beers in front of them, and prowled the room for her regular dealer.

Damage and casualties from the Dawson's Night celebrations had been unprecedented, and the gang she and the heathens had tangled with had given their side of the story to the militia -- two of them from hospital beds, where they were being treated for broken bones and internal injuries.

She had told the heathens just before she'd launched them in their glider, laden with small metal goods, from the car-and-chariot arrangement the following afternoon, that drug trading was right out.

Eventually they have the balloon train's cargo laid out on the grass in the puddle of yellow light from the lamp, and the heathens are proudly unwrapping them to display their contents.

Making contact with the heathens and setting up the beginnings of a deal was certainly worthwhile -- that kind of craft-work sells very well back home.

He starts up and vaults over the side as readily as the two heathens, who're running to make fast the guy ropes and dowse the braziers.

They turn to see the other heathens trotting off up the slope, six of them bearing the balloons' long basket on their shoulders, other groups lugging the folded silk.

Feeble cedar-and-canvas, petrol-engined kites that can chew up anything the heathens can put in the air.

The heathens are sharp enough to think of it themselves, if some city entrepreneur doesn't put it to them first.

Peace with the heathens -- inside the city as well as outside -- is essential for that.