paynim

The paynim among humans don't crave it either, do they?

"A crusade is a war to recover the Holy Land from the paynim."

Tell me at once, has the Holy Land been liberated from the paynim?"

A dainty dish is Paynim flesh, with salt and roasting due.

I allowed if the paynim was satisfied I was, and we would let it stand at that.

While all unburied round about the slaughtered Paynim lie.

"The land of the paynim.

"A knightly blow, truly; one worthy of a Christian born who does murder for Paynim pay!

"Strange that you know so little of your own land," the commander sighed, "from sojourning so long among the paynim.

"Paynim gold was the bait you could not withstand--that is what you mean.

And the woman wept pitiably so that even Sir Trystan the paynim was moved to sue for her release.

The juice of the paynim poppies had quieted Columbanus more than once when his religious fervour prostrated him.

"It is shame and sin to see two Christian Englishmen turn swords against each other like the frenzied bloodthirsty paynim."

"He is in hiding somewhere, for he knew well, black paynim as he is, that our horses' four legs could outstrip his two."

"To be sure, the paynim Southrons believe that God is three, an even more pernicious notion than that of the Easterlings."

Once, true, I fought for the paynim, but the gentle and chivalrous knight who overcame me also won me to the True Faith.

There he dwelt until the paynim again menaced France, a hundred years later, and thence he sallied forth to conquer them anew.

"Oh, what do I care which Norman--or paynim sultan, for that matter--sits on the throne?

"So that they can sail across the Ocean Sea, and go to the rescue of the Holy Land, and free it from the paynim hordes."

How he would have smitten the Paynim with his sword, and then unvisored and held chivalrous interview with Saladin!

European literature from the Middle Ages often referred to Muslims as pagans, with sobriquets such as the paynim foe.

I swear by these finger-bones that I would not hurt a hair of your pretty heads; but I have been among the black paynim, and, by my hilt!

Yes, that was why Roland had tried to break Durindal, in his last hour at Roncesvalles: so the miraculous sword would not fall into paynim hands... The symmetry was suggestive.

The Assistant Commissioner laughed a little; but the great man's thoughts seemed to have wandered far away, perhaps to the questions of his country's domestic policy, the battle-ground of his crusading valour against the paynim Cheeseman.

I have known many such deeds of chivalry done in the East by Paynim men--" "Well, Rosamund is half an Eastern," broke in Wulf carelessly; "and perhaps that had something to do with it all."