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
Johanna Southcote had her votaries, and Prince Hohenlohe is still considered by many a pious person, as a vicarious instrument of divine mercy.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
There is a fund there which was long ago bequeathed by some pious person for the furnishing small stipends to such aged poor people as should daily devoutly hear mass.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. 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
The Unicorn was an unusually pious person, and on arriving at the table, to John's astonishment, gently but firmly he grasped the knife with which he was about to cut the meat.
From Jess by Haggard, Henry Rider
