devout person
Example Sentences
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“It’s just that I’m a very devout person, and I like to call all men of God Father.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Even the Mère Julie herself, though a devout person, the pears she sold to us on the last market day before these events, were far, very far, as she must have known, from being satisfactory.
From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Those other tendencies seemed to be absent in Francesca, and little by little her acquaintances began to speak of her as a devout person.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by Castaigne, J. André
No wise person is without this letter, and every thoughtful and devout person reads it daily.
From Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by Judy, J. M.
Dying had not forthwith made me a devout person.
From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
