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But even in Galilee there were many earnest Jews, and it may be doubted if, after all, half-heathen Galilee was not a better place for a boy to grow up in than was proud Jerusalem.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

In dwelling on these ideals the poet loses sight of the seafarer and his half-heathen associations, and as inevitably rises to a contemplation of the cheering hopes of a future life afforded by Christianity.”

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

First he was a Gentile; the land in which the miracle was wrought was the half-heathen country on the east side of the Sea of Galilee.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

He fell finally with that other half-heathen power in the North, with which he had made an alliance against the remains of Roman and Byzantine culture.

From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Bacchanalian dances, which have originated in similar causes among all the rude nations of the earth, and the wild extravagancies of a heated imagination, were the constant accompaniments of this half-heathen, half-Christian festival. 

From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by Babington, B. G. (Benjamin Guy)