impious
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"Impious youth," the bishop, who was in full pontificals, said, "you would never dare to hang priests."
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Impious men do not recommend themselves to their communion by iniquity and cruelty towards any description of their fellow-creatures.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Impious people, you say, deprived of the flattering hopes of another life, desire to be annihilated.
From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Knoop, Anna
Impious and rash! thus to usurp the prerogatives of your Maker! to set up your bounded views and halting reason, as the measure of truth!
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden
And also that we ought to associate ourselves with the Impious and Heretical, if we have any Hope of amending them.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
Vocabulary lists containing impious
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Common Sense
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