He was by no means an unbeliever, except in his attitude toward the Church.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
Then comes the hard unbeliever, delighted to prove, as any child can do, that such prayer cannot be proved to avail anything.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
Had any doubting Thomas, however, walked beside him on his way up Broadway to his rooms on Fifteenth Street, and had the quick, almost boyish lift of Peter's heels not entirely convinced the unbeliever of Peter's youth, all questions would have been at once disposed of had the cheery bank teller invited him into his apartment up three flights of stairs over the tailor's shop-and he would have invited him had he been his friend-and then and there forced him into an easy chair near the open wood fire, with some such remark as: "Down, you rascal, and sit close up where I can get my hands on you!"
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith