pious person
Example Sentences
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Yet every pious person adores that heaven and wants to get into it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frequently, instead of begging for alms, he accepted an invitation to dine with some pious person who asked the whole band of disciples and made strenuous culinary efforts.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
The French-woman was a very amiable, and pious person, too.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
The font was probably rescued by some pious person, for the one now in the church is a fine Norman one, with cable moulding.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind
You are perhaps, for the moment, surprised, whatever might have been admitted of Æneas, to hear Horace spoken of as a pious person.
From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John
