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- English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
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a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe
the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water
How To Use Bunyan In A Sentence
- The frontier has been an active source for American folktales dealing with characters such as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Mike Fink.
- Bunyan said of the things with which one could commit idolatry when binding God with them, the laver and Table, that by the free grace of God, ‘Here's such as helpeth Man's Salvation.’
- Mr Bunyan said there was enormous scope to rationalise courier companies which deliver to people in rural communities.
- the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'
- One lot is a collection of children's annuals, including first editions of Enid Blyton books and an 1870 copy of John Bunyan's Choice Works.
- Regrettably, this means that the following people are dunces: the editorial board of the Oxford English Dictionary, John Milton [cited in OED], Charles Dickens [in Martin Chuzzlewit], and John Bunyan [in Pilgrim's Progress]. What’s the deal with further and farther? « Motivated Grammar
- During his army years Bunyan witnessed the struggle between Presbyterians, who wanted to reform the Church of England, and radical sectaries.
- Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy.
- I use the term allegory reluctantly because allegorical figures, like those found in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or Spenser's Faerie Queene tend to be one-dimensional, lacking interiority and nuance. Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination
- For example, despite his disagreements with the repressive policy of the Church of England toward evangelical preachers like himself, Bunyan did not follow Roger Williams in refusing all fellowship with conformists.