It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.
1917, G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England:
In the simpler case of northern heathenry the civilization spread with a simplier progress.
1909, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry:
It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.