Heretics

Examples

• He had a passion for the argumentative conversion of heretics, and he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to go and preach to the Albigenses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• East of the Caliph, in Persia, and west of him in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, were Shiite heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The last discourse of St. Dominic to the heretics he had sought to convert is preserved to us. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Obstinate heretics used to be brought thither convenient for burning hard by. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We were blasphemers--lying heretics. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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