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Her piety required her to help her neighbors who were in need.
piety = highly moral beliefs
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The cartoon with a drawing of Muhammad outraged many pious Muslims.
pious = highly religious
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Benjamin Franklin's parents were pious Puritans.
pious = highly religious or highly moral
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It is not for me to talk lightly of a learned and pious minister of the Word, like the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale.
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pious = highly religious and moral
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She was from the "wrong kind" of family but embedded in a pious Mormon community that, like many communities, visited the crimes of the parents on the children.
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pious = highly religious
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Musicians took out ads in the papers saying they had stopped playing and pledging to live pious lives to appease the Taliban.
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pious = highly religious and moral
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Erma's death brought out Mom's pious side.
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pious = religious
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They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them, and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed.
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pious = moral (well-intentioned)
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Mr. Patel, Piscine's piety is admirable.
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piety = highly religious belief and behavior
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The Vatican is made up of deeply pious men
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pious = religious
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Laila remembered Wajma raising a finger and her voice quivering with piety. This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
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piety = religious morality
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...whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.
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piety = highly religious and moral behavior
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They were pious people, Muslims, who believed the twin babies were a sign of double luck,
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pious = religious
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Here in New England books contained only a dreary collection of sermons, or at most some pious religious poetry.
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pious = highly moral or religious
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It was a good thing she hadn't said anything, because when Tita returned to the ranch after hearing about their calamity, Chencha's pious lie would have been shattered by Tita's splendid beauty and radiant energy.
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pious = well-intentioned (made to help another)
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But it's hard to think so pious a woman be secretly a Devil's...
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pious = religious
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The rain drove us into the church.... Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
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piety = religious belief
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This morning he was spinning the tale of Susanna, beautiful and pious wife of the rich man Joakim.
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pious = highly religious and moral
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And so she cultivated a pious interest in heathens.
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- All of them-I held them personally and individually responsible-the polyestered Kiwanis boys, the merchants and farmers, the pious churchgoers, the chatty housewives, the PTA and the Lions club and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the fine upstanding gentry out at the country club. (source)
- [Immanuel Kant] His family was deeply pious, and his own religious conviction formed a significant background to his philosophy. (source)
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"Papa's just confessing what he thinks are our strengths." She stresses the verb confessing as if their father were actually being pious in looking ahead for his daughters.
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pious = highly religious or moral
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He met others like her—"church ladies," he called them—and he was impressed, not by their piety but by what they were willing to do on behalf of the migrant workers.
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piety = religious belief
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a timid, pious, delicate girl named Bonnie Fox,
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pious = behaving in a highly moral or religious manner
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Moody began to say his Islamic prayers with a piety I had not witnessed in him before.
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piety = religious devotion
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Most were pious Christians or Muslims.
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pious = religious
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...worthy, pious men — came upon the man but did not stop, "passing by on the other side." The only man to help was a Samaritan — the member of a despised minority — who "went up to him and bound up his wounds" and took him to an inn.
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pious = highly religious
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It pains her, as a pious Muslim, that some fundamentalists want to kill her in the name of Islam.
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pious = religious
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She gazes into the wide center section of the church, passing over the familiar faces of women and a few men. No one from here-no one from this place of public piety and sacrifice-seems suitable.
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piety = highly religious and moral behavior
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the story of an old, pious Hasid who had set out on a journey to Palestine
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pious = highly religious
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The kind of gut-wrenching event that tested the faith of even the most pious.
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pious = religious
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"It is better," I recited piously, "to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house with a contentious woman."
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piously = in a highly religious or moral manner
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It was because my father was a careful and pious man with a keen eye for an Offence that we used to have more slaughterings and burnings than anyone else: but any suggestion that we were more afflicted with Offences than other people hurt and angered him.
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pious = highly religious and moral
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the piety and heroism of 'The Three Musketeers'
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piety = devotion (highly moral behavior)
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What became of our Eden, our world of innocence, piety, and poetry;
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piety = highly religious or moral behavior
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I feel, love, need, and respect people above all else, including the arts, natural scenery, organized piety, or nationalistic superstructures.
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piety = religious or moral belief
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Mrs. Pender is, ah, a pious woman, and she believes that now that we have invaded Pennsylvania we are in the wrong, and God has forsaken us
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pious = religious
- Mr Mason stopped swearing and began to pray in a loud pious voice. (source)
- In the midst of blatant injustices ..., I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. (source)
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When I try to put it into words, it comes out one of those ... over-pious platitudes at which Bishops are expected to excel.
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pious = religious or moral
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BRADY (Piously) I object to the note of levity which the counsel for the defense is introducing into these proceedings.
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piously = in a religious manner
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the sweet smell of piety for the soul
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piety = religious belief
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Star says that he was the most unsuccessful emperor in all that long line, with genius for doing the wrong thing from pious motives, so she learned more from him than any other; he made every mistake in the book.
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pious = highly moral or religious
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But to the maid she gave the order to give the pious Brahman white upper garments.
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pious = religious or moral
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Any one could see with half an eye that the woman was as pious as could be...
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pious = highly moral
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Let him do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm us if we can keep it out of his will.
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piety = highly religious and moral behavior
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...the guard said, piously touching his fingers to his forehead, his chest, his left shoulder, and then his right--making the sign of the cross.
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piously = religiously
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He had had a beautiful and eager young wife and another man had taken her away from him and had fathered his child, and all he had done was ... and let his intellect bleed away into pious drivel and his strength bleed away into weakness.
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"Young Juan," the mother read, "from his earliest years was noted for his humility and piety."
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piety = highly religious and moral behavior
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God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise till my observed results equal my calculated results or in pious glee I discover and assault my error.
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pious = highly religious and highly moral
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Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious bringing-up.
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pious = religious or highly moral
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certain good and pious and slightly withered ladies of Combray whom I used to see at mass,
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pious = behaving in a highly moral or religious manner
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These cages will be full of psalms and hymns and piety.
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piety = religious belief
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There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea-things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.
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pious = religious or moral
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My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in, occasionally leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.
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pious = highly moral or religious
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Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now ... he looked ... good and pious...
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pious = highly religious and moral
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Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions.
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pious = religious
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"God won't be so cruel as to take you from me," cried poor Jo rebelliously, for her spirit was far less piously submissive than Beth's.
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piously = religiously
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For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least.
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pious = religious
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I knew an old black man, whose piety and childlike trust in God were beautiful to witness
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piety = highly religious belief or behavior
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...we abandon to your pious care the body of that unfortunate woman.
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pious = highly religious
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...everything that was then the fashion in the pious book trade.
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pious = religious
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When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman.
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pious = highly moral
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite;
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piety = religious or moral belief
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he really seemed somehow or other to fancy that his wife had piety and benevolence enough for two
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piety = religious belief
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The young Mrs. Eleanors and Mrs. Bridgets—starched up into seeming piety, but with heads full of something very different—especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at—and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even to what they are now.
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piety = religious devotion
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He was very pious, a great attender of sermons of the best preachers
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pious = religious
- The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears blot out a Word of it.† (source)
- She knelt before the Buddha with lit joss sticks, and all her movements seemed full of piety.† (source)
- Gravesend Academy was founded in 1781 by the Rev. Emery Hurd, a follower of the original Wheelwright's original beliefs, a childless Puritan with an ability—according to Wall—for "Oration on the advantages of Learning and its happy Tendency to promote Virtue and Piety."† (source)
- The Christmas mornings of his youth had been suffocated under an excess of piety, prayer, and silence, as if a giant wool blanket had settled over the house.† (source)
- Those readers who have been raised in a monotheistic culture (which is all of us, whatever our religious persuasion or lack thereof, who live within the Western tradition) might have a little trouble with the piety of the Greeks, whose chief implement of religious practice is the carving knife.† (source)
- A feeling of desperate piety swept over me.† (source)
- Ordinarily, such a display would have made me nervous, but since Trebon was a mining town, I guessed it showed civic pride more than fanatic piety.† (source)
- Fermina Daza hated her and everything that had to do with her more than anything in this world, and the mere memory of her false piety made scorpions crawl in her belly.† (source)
- Here, posing as piety was an example of the very materialism the church opposed.† (source)
- Everybody: his sister and his brother-in-law, his brother and father and mother, the uncles and aunts and cousins, and the resulting miasma of piety and malice and suspicion and fear.† (source)
- Since hijabs represented modesty and piety, I doubted Sam wanted hers to look like I'd been chewing on it.† (source)
- We could be here all night listening to tales of her piety.† (source)
- Her piety was the only thing she shared with Ferula.† (source)
- You wouldn't believe it, Yossarian,' he ruminated, raising his voice deliberately to bait Doc Daneeka, 'but this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.† (source)
- Through all her tribulations he had been watching her, noting her virtue and piety.† (source)
- I wondered if the image of foreign piety I'd constructed had convinced her I had some sort of faith, or if she was merely too Radchaai not to think the toss of a handful of omens would answer any pressing question, persuade me toward the right action.† (source)
- I sat now facing the portrait of Frederick Douglass, feeling a sudden piety, remembering and refusing to hear the echoes of my grandfather's voice.† (source)
- "My father was a man [of] great piety," he would explain.† (source)
- Piety and devotion.† (source)
- Piety comes easily to me.† (source)
- And yet I am bestowed only with the meager effect of his hard-fought riches, that troubling awe and contempt and piety I still hold for his life.† (source)
- Piety had, for Athenians, a broad meaning.† (source)
- THERE WAS A CALM PIETY IN THE SONOROUS ring of the church bell.† (source)
- As before, she covered her arms and legs, not out of piety, but because it was late autumn and quite cold.† (source)
- Without warning, by the shores of what Blobb called "the Lake of Piety." they were set upon by a score of black-cloaked riders, who engaged them in a fierce, silent struggle in the icy wind blowing in from the lake.† (source)
- I find a touch of piety in this, especially inasmuch as Steiner has not remained silent.† (source)
- A country lawyer in Tidewater Virginia, he mixed religious piety unhealthily with capitalistic ambition.† (source)
- But piety is all we have to offer.† (source)
- Because a world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.† (source)
- The icon over the arched gate was framed by the legend in gold letters: "Rejoice, life-giving Cross, unconquerable victory of piety."† (source)
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She, poor child, beautiful, naturally pious, was fascinated by him.
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"The pious," she went on meditatively, "after all know most about this."
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pious = religious
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He was another pious slave owner who treated his slaves mercilessly.
pious = self-righteous (acting as though one is, or believing one is highly moral when it is not true)
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I am tired of listening to the pious words of someone who is so cruel.
pious = self-righteous (sounding highly moral when it is not true)
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Pious people have always gotten on my nerves.
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pious = self-righteous (acting holier-than-thou)
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Christy wore a pious look, as if God Himself had just come down from heaven to sit on her desk.
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He didn't know anything about me or the day I was born or he'd never say such a foolish thing, sitting there so piously at his kitchen table, sounding for all the world like a Methodist preacher.
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piously = in a self-righteous or holier-than-thou manner
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By next morning Grandpa had found a way to thumb his nose at the whole Bang town, so pious and hypocritical:
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pious = self-righteous (acting as though highly moral when it is not true)
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...you're beginning to give off a little stink of piousness.
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piousness = self-righteousness or a holier-than-thou attitude
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He alleged that he was a licensed pharmacist but he so mangled prescriptions that Martin burst into the store and addressed him piously.
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piously = in a self-righteous or holier-than-thou manner
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It is said to have been drawn, several years before the present anti-slavery agitation began, by a northern Methodist preacher, who, while residing at the south, had an opportunity to see slaveholding morals, manners, and piety, with his own eyes.
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piety = self-righteous belief (believing one is highly moral when it is not true)
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It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty for the rest.
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pious = self-righteous (believing oneself to be highly moral when it is not true)
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I can stand most any talk o' yourn but your pious talk,—that kills me right up. ... --it's clean, sheer, dog meanness, wanting to cheat the devil and save your own skin;
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pious = appearing highly religious and moral even though it's not true
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God damn it, there isn't any prayer in any religion in the world that justifies piousness.
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piousness = self-righteousness or a holier-than-thou attitude
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He condemned magnificently and forgave piously,
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piously = in a self-righteous or holier-than-thou manner
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He who sells my sister, for purposes of prostitution, stands forth as the pious advocate of purity.
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pious = self-righteous (acting as though highly moral when it is not true)
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Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell
How pious priests whip Jack and Nell, (source)
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And crooked—Say, if I told the prosecuting attorney what I know about this last Street Traction option steal, both you and me would go to jail, along with some nice, clean, pious, high-up traction guns!
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pious = self-righteous (acting as though one is highly moral when it is not true)
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"Well, now, but I'm not sure, after all, about this religion," said he, the old wicked expression returning to his eye; "the country is almost ruined with pious white people; such pious politicians as we have just before elections,—such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next."
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pious = appearing highly religious and moral even though it's not true
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Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion—a pious soul—a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church.
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pious = self-righteous (thought to be highly moral when it is not true)
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The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.
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Here was a recently-converted man, holding on upon the mother, and at the same time turning out her helpless child, to starve and die! Master Thomas was one of the many pious slaveholders who hold slaves for the very charitable purpose of taking care of them.
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pious = self-righteous (believing themselves to be highly moral when it is not true)
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...there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament. We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.
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pious = self-righteous (thought to be highly moral when it is not true)
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A great many times have we poor creatures been nearly perishing with hunger, when food in abundance lay mouldering in the safe and smoke-house, and our pious mistress was aware of the fact; and yet that mistress and her husband would kneel every morning, and pray that God would bless them in basket and store!
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pious = self-righteousness (wrongly believing in her moral superiority)
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—We are oft to blame in this,— 'tis too much prov'd,—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The Devil himself.
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pious = appearing highly religious and moral even though it's not true
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She is clinging to the pious hope that everyone will just start to get along.
pious = sincerely felt, but highly unlikely
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- When she says, "Cheaters never prosper," she is voicing a pious hope rather than a law of nature.
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We may all join in that pious hope, but it is doubtful whether...
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pious = sincere, but highly unlikely
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They danced hand in hand about the living-room of the fraternity, piously assuring one another, "He'll use it—it's all right—he'll get through or get hanged!"
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piously = clinging to a sincere wish that is highly unlikely
- In November 1510, on behalf of seven Augustinian monasteries, he [Luther] made a visit to Rome, where he performed the religious duties customary for a pious visitor and was shocked by the worldliness of the Roman clergy. (source)
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Here we cannot suppress a pious wish, that all quarrels were to be decided by those weapons only with which Nature, knowing what is proper for us, hath supplied us; and that cold iron was to be used in digging no bowels but those of the earth.
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pious = sincerely felt, but impossible
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- She'd become less pious since going to school, and her language had become a good deal stronger.† (source)
- And she hated what she called "the loud and proud"—people who wore their faith on their sleeve, always ready to let you know how pious they were.† (source)
- It had nothing to do with pious social aims.† (source)
- But I skip a Sunday service now and then; I make no claims to be especially pious; I have a church-rummage faith—the kind that needs . patching up every weekend.† (source)
- "I am a good Sikh, a pious Sikh," he cried.† (source)
- "Amen," the pious few say quickly, and the rest of us follow.† (source)
- What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?† (source)
- To the pious this exchange confirmed the fundamental wickedness of Anthony's suffragist movement.† (source)
- What about the pious old Bible reader?† (source)
- And if he really rewards piousness and public prayer and all that, like Brittain seems to think, how come he lets me drive my car around without blowing out my tires, and how come he lets me kick Brittain's butt in the pool?† (source)
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- Mama looking every bit the forbidding widow, with her severe face, her tufted eyebrows, and her snub nose, standing stiffly, looking sullenly pious, like she's a pilgrim herself.† (source)
- So I have to," Rahel said piously.† (source)
- The Justice's voice dripped pious regret.† (source)
- It wasn't like the answer was the pious: Then you'll be a killer, Nick.† (source)
- Her husband, who was a pious man, spent his days and nights in study, and it was she who worked to support the family.† (source)
- In spite of that conspiracy of smiles, the children became accustomed to think of their grandfather as a legendary being who wrote them pious verses in his letters and every Christmas sent them a box of gifts that barely fitted through the outside door.† (source)
- She said brief prayers while she worked, simple pious pleas called ejaculations that carried indulgences numbered in the days rather than years.† (source)
- The pious bishop.† (source)
- He took refuge, with his pious mother, in the Catholic church.† (source)
- As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy.† (source)
- 'Breaded veal cutlets are very nutritious,' Milo admonished him piously.† (source)
- There once was a pious woman with few prospects.† (source)
- It's there whether you're the most pious Jew or the most marginal.† (source)
- You could buy mass-produced versions of these in shops well away from the main concourse, and put them in your home shrine, for gods or for the dead, but these were different, each one a carefully detailed work of art, each one conspicuously labeled with the names of the living donor and the dead recipient, so every visitor could see the pious mourning—and wealth and status—on display.† (source)
- In striking contrast to Lee was Major General Artemus Ward, a heavy-set, pious-looking Massachusetts farmer, storekeeper, justice of the peace, and veteran of the French and Indian War, who had had overall command of the siege of Boston prior to Washington's arrival.† (source)
- My pious, departed mother would no doubt take offense at your omitting the 'Brendan Patrick.'† (source)
- Do I confess my sins now, from the pious mount of this open window, the fireflies of flashlights blinking in the woods?† (source)
- That no happiness or solid comfort can be found in this vale of tears, like living a pious life.† (source)
- The more pious lords supported them, and many of the smallfolk.† (source)
- A few minutes later the messenger returned, gave the old man a grunt, and--cautiously, feeling ahead of himself with his crooked bare toes like a man engaged in some strange, pious dance, the foolish smile still fixed on his face--the blind old man went in.† (source)
- The fact that mass slaughters hadn't been prevented in places all over the world -- and weren't being prevented now -- didn't argue against these attempts to preserve the memories of former massacres and the hope they represented, that someday "Never Again" might seem like more than a pious, self-enhancing platitude.† (source)
- These guys look more like gangsters than pious angels.† (source)
- They sat in the courtroom in heavy silence and they looked at the tall, gray figure, not with hope-they were losing the capacity to hope —but with an impassive neutrality spiked by a faint question mark; the question mark was placed over all the pious slogans they had heard for years.† (source)
- I have a naturally pious stare and don't mean a thing by it, as I could have told her, but it was not the proper moment for explanations.† (source)
- They looked so pious, but some had humor, others ambition.† (source)
- Not even a breaking wave could strike harder than the blessed sap as it quietly dries on parchment and vellum wrenched from the innards of piously dancing sheep.† (source)
- Any pious man must see the finger of that Almighty hand that has so frequently come to our relief at critical times of the revolution.† (source)
- It is the shock good stories offer to our expectations, not some sop they offer to our pieties, that makes tales tally, and makes comtes count.† (source)
- Theother man raised a pious finger and said, But hard work can be its own reward.† (source)
- It was intelligent, dignified, pious even.† (source)
- I imagined every word out of their mouths would be rigid or pious, and right now I would have preferred a sailor's swearing.† (source)
- With all of the pious talk against communism, the present conflict over integration is doing the work of the communists almost better than they could do it themselves.† (source)
- With National Socialism there came a sweeping away of leftover pieties.† (source)
- These pieties were a shade premature, since the war had not quite ended.† (source)
- Yet five minutes' talk with someone like Metty—who, in spite of his coast experience, had travelled in terror across the strangeness of the continent—would have told Raymond that the whole pious scheme was cruel and very ignorant, that to set a few unprotected people down in strange territory was to expose them to attack and kidnap and worse.† (source)
- Sure, I'll find me a couple truths and throw in a few pieties-but make it twenty minutes.† (source)
- Dudorov's pious platitudes were in the spirit of the times.† (source)
- I was a very pious girl.† (source)
- Parnell Moody used to be wild and now she was pious.† (source)
- We're off to the Prayvaganza, to demonstrate how obedient and pious we are.† (source)
- "Weel moi moither raised me propper," the swineherd said piously, laying a hand flat on his chest.† (source)
- I'd like to pass by the church," says Ofglen, as if piously.† (source)
- She had the piousness, in some ways; she had the high, pure forehead.† (source)
- "I tell you, these Hindus," Baby Kochamma said piously.† (source)
- They were dolls dressed up, insipid in blue and white, pious and lifeless.† (source)
- If I make pious noises as required, Damphair will give me no trouble.† (source)
- Very pious of you, Cersei, but I doubt the gods will be impressed.† (source)
- In word and deed, she became more pious, more outwardly Islamic.† (source)
- The chanting filled the woods like pious thunder.† (source)
- Her world had a population of four: herself and her three gaolers, pious and unyielding.† (source)
- Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.† (source)
- Gentle, pious, good-hearted Willas Tyrell.† (source)
- "A pious sentiment, Damphair," said Goodbrother, "but not one that your brother shares.† (source)
- She opened her handbag, withdrew her favorite green hijab, and pinned it piously into place.† (source)
- The Damphair might disapprove, but Aeron and his pieties were far away.† (source)
- You did not strike me as a pious man, my lord.† (source)
- "He's grown pious," said Jaime, "but it wasn't him who did the picking.† (source)
- I've had enough of feeble pieties and maidens' judgments.† (source)
- Cersei would sooner have Robert's corpse between her legs than a pious fool like Lancel.† (source)
- Cersei itched to slap his solemn, pious face.† (source)
- Ruth said piously, "You never know what's happening in the other person's mind.† (source)
- In his waning years— ever watchful that Gravesend Academy devote itself to "pious and charitable purposes"—the Rev. Mr. Hurd was known to patrol Water Street in downtown Gravesend, looking for youthful offenders: specifically, young men who would not doff their hats to him, and young ladies who would not curtsy.† (source)
- The crisis came when Dida announced that she, through a pious and ailing woman living in the same ashram, had finally located a passable groom willing to take me off their hands.† (source)
- Her voice is pious, condescending, the voice of those whose duty it is to tell us unpleasant things for our own good.† (source)
- In school we Hindu girls had thought of Masterji as a religious man, a pious Sikh, but very noncommunal, until pamphlets accusing him of being a bad Sikh—of smoking, for instance—started showing up in classrooms.† (source)
- Religion was just a stick to beat the soldiers with, and anyone who declared otherwise was full of pious drivel.† (source)
- Now only a few people still took the gods seriously, and anyone overly pious or observant was considered a crackpot.† (source)
- You were always so stinking pious.† (source)
- Then the Alumni Association man cleared his throat and gave out with a pious spiel about Winifred Griffen Prior, saint on earth.† (source)
- We were brought by Reenie, who thought the visiting of family graves was somehow good for children, and later we came by ourselves: it was a pious and therefore acceptable excuse for escape.† (source)
- True, the fiery-eyed messenger who spoke to the Fist of the Invincible One promised they will be given victory if they continue to be pious and obedient and brave and cunning, but there are always so many ifs in these matters.† (source)
- A pack of pious fools.† (source)
- His mother, though a pious woman, thought him unsuited for the life, for all that Deacon John wished it for him.† (source)
- I keep my eyes closed, trying to feel pious and sorry for the dead soldiers, who died for us, whose faces I can't imagine.† (source)
- A lover of the weekly "liberty" leaves that sent the Marines flocking into nearby towns and bars for fun, Mike was amused at a necessary ritual that accompanied each liberty: the mandatory testing for venereal disease of each man by a medic, as a chaplain stood piously by.† (source)
- 39 THE ETERNAL CITY Yossarian was going absent without official leave with Milo, who, as the plane cruised toward Rome, shook his head reproachfully and, with pious lips pulsed, informed Yossarian in ecclesiastical tones that he was ashamed of him.† (source)
- The Greeks and Romans, with all their gods, thought they were making sacrifices and praying at temples in order to receive favor from their deities; but today, pious people would scoff.† (source)
- After breakfast she was put back into her bed, propped up in the half-seated position that was the only one her arthritis allowed, with no other company than her pious reading matter— books of miracles and lives of the saints.† (source)
- Now, I'm no expert on the subject, yet a body does get weary of being draggedthrough the holy briar patch only to have his pocket regularly picked by a pious hand.† (source)
- A pious man who worships the Seven so fervently that he eats a meal for each of them whenever he sits to table.† (source)
- Afterward Guncer Sunglass, mildest and most pious of lords, told Stannis he could no longer support his claim.† (source)
- And there, without me asking a single question, was my answer: no amount of piousness could erase the stain on the hands of a murderer.† (source)
- A regiment of decorated war veterans from the area trooped by, including several men with long beards and shriveled bodies who claimed to have served with both the honorable Bobby Lee and the fanatically pious Stonewall Jackson.† (source)
- If we are seen to be going against the gods, it will only drive the pious into the arms of one or the other of these would-be usurpers.† (source)
- Lord Bar Emmon, that plump boy of fourteen, was swathed in purple velvet trimmed with white seal, Ser Axell Florent remained homely even in russet and fox fur, pious Lord Sunglass wore moonstones at throat and wrist and finger, and the Lysene captain Salladhor Saan was a sunburst of scarlet satin, gold, and jewels.† (source)
- She shed her pious clothing, too, changing into a pair of white Capri-length pants, a sleeveless blouse, and a pair of gold flat-soled sandals that displayed her newly polished nails.† (source)
- That Lysene pirate Salladhor Saan will be there with the latest tally of what I owe him, and Morosh the Myrman will caution me with talk of tides and autumn gales, while Lord Sunglass mutters piously of the will of the Seven.† (source)
- He picked up the second photo, the one where the woman was piously attired, and stared into the bottomless eyes.† (source)
- Even with Galbart Glover's wife, the pious Lady Sybelle, he had been correct and courteous but plainly uncomfortable.† (source)
- You took my sword, my horse, and my gold, so take my life and be done with it …. but spare me this pious bleating.† (source)
- Afterward he became most pious, and was heard to say that only the Maiden could replace Queen Rhaella in his heart.† (source)
- In the morning she dressed piously, pinned her hijab carefully into place, and wheeled her suitcase through the quiet streets of the banlieue to the Aubervilliers RER station.† (source)
- She tended to her patients, she gossiped with the women of the housing estates, she averted her eyes piously in the presence of boys and young men, and at night, alone in her apartment, she wandered the rooms of the house of extremist Islam, hidden behind her protective software and her vague pen name.† (source)
- He wasn't clever enough to be a maester, pious enough to be a septon, or savage enough to be a sellsword.† (source)
- When her captors came for her, she made pious noises at them again and told them how determined she was to confess her sins and be forgiven for all that she had done.† (source)
- If he dares mention gold, I will deal with this one as I did the last and find a pious eightyear-old to wear the crystal crown.† (source)
- The Targaryen dynasty had produced kings both bad and good, but none as beloved as Baelor, that pious gentle septon-king who loved the smallfolk and the gods in equal parts, yet imprisoned his own sisters.† (source)
- The pious sentiment would have been more convincing if the queen had not known that Septon Raynard had special friends in every brothel on the Street of Silk.† (source)
- She was all charm, flirting with Lord Tyrell as they spoke of Joffrey's wedding feast, complimenting Lord Redwyne on the valor of his twins, softening gruff Lord Rowan with jests and smiles, making pious noises at the High Septon.† (source)
- "Our Father Above knows their guilt and will sit in judgment on them all," the High Septon said piously.† (source)
- I fear no shade, ser. It is written in The Seven-Pointed Star that spirits, wights, and revenants cannot harm a pious man, so long as he is armored in his faith.† (source)
- "My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs," she went on, "so spare me all your pious talk of soiled cloaks.† (source)
- Randyll Tarly is hunting them from Maidenpool and Walder Frey from the Twins, and there is a new young lord in Darry, a pious man who will surely set his lands to rights.† (source)
- Downstream, below the black marble walls and arched windows of the Starry Sept, the manses of the pious clustered like children gathered round the feet of an old dowager.† (source)
- They should actually be called the Holy Eighty-Six, having lost fourteen men upon the Blackwater, but no doubt Ser Bonifer would fill up his ranks again as soon as he found some sufficiently pious recruits.† (source)
- She had thought Qyburn must be japing when he had told her that her mooncalf cousin had forsaken castle, lands, and wife and wandered back to the city to join the Noble and Puissant Order of the Warrior's Sons, yet there he stood with the other pious fools.† (source)
- When she was feeling pious she would leave the castle to pray at Baelor's Sept. She gave her custom to a dozen different seamstresses, was well-known amongst the city's goldsmiths, and had even been known to visit the fish market by the Mud Gate for a look at the day's catch.† (source)
- "May the Crone guide the deliberations with her golden lamp of wisdom," said Lady Falyse, most piously.† (source)
- Earnest ladies and pious men had scurried around attics and unused libraries in search of books for the unread natives of Yamacraw Island.† (source)
- Pious little idiot!† (source)
- I had not been in any sense a godly-minded creature, and the Scriptures were always largely a literary convenience, supplying me with allusions and tag lines for the characters in my novel, one or two of whom had evolved into pious turds.† (source)
- Of the rajah, it is sufficient to tell that he is of middle height and middle years, shrewd, slightly stout, neither pious nor more than usually notorious and fabulously wealthy.† (source)
- She was very pious and strict.† (source)
- It takes three big boys every time, she is so heavy, and one of them always has the presence of mind to cover her piously with her old purple hat for the occasion.† (source)
- Our business is to point the finger, so to speak, at pious hypocrisy--not simple hypocrisy of the usual sort but a psychological kind, a sort of lie in the soul.† (source)
- But I did seem to be aware, during the time of the telling of her story, while the smoke churned up over the nearby roofs and the fire erupted at last toward the sky in fierce incandescence, that those words which had commenced in pious Presbyterian entreaty became finally meaningless.† (source)
- He regained his composure quickly, though, as we strolled through the balmy night up Broadway, north through Times Square—a place which caused the old man to adopt an expression of dazed and pious speculation, although he was never a pious person and his reaction came, I think, less from real disapproval than from the shock, like a slap in the face, of the area's raunchy weirdness.† (source)
- I saw shadowy rooms paneled in dark walnut and furnished with cumbersome pieces in mission oak; on one table would be the menorah, its candles in orderly array but unlit, while nearby on another table would be the Torah, or perhaps the Talmud, opened to a page which had just undergone pious scrutiny by the elder Lapidus.† (source)
- The little girls sat motionless, their eyes large and brown and pious.† (source)
- She refuses to divorce him because she is so pious.† (source)
- He sighed and shook his head and he looked piously to the sky.† (source)
- During all that time the pious girl had preserved her virginity by a succession of miracles.† (source)
- Gant had piously contributed his vote for purity.† (source)
- "In the midst of life--" said the stranger, kind of pious.† (source)
- There, for the last time, I see the statue of our pious founder with the doves about his head.† (source)
- Is he so pious, he can't bear to look at a pair of drawers?† (source)
- I'll tell you what a pious old woman in Veljish told me when I was a little girl.† (source)
- "Bridey, you mustn't be pious," said Sebastian.† (source)
- They loved him, and they punished him piously, affectionately.† (source)
- They found these people gentle, pious, and well-spoken.† (source)
- No one can blame father because he was pious.† (source)
- It was observed piously from Maryland to Oregon.† (source)
- "The time draws near the birth of Christ," said he, piously.† (source)
- There's no telling what women will do when they're pious.† (source)
- A pious Jew with a beard-who dared ask more of him?† (source)
- He opened the door and said slowly, in my own language: "I see that the pious Hsi P'eng persists in correcting my solitude.† (source)
- Their legends are rehearsed, but the pious sentiments and lessons of the biographies are necessarily inadequate; little better than bathos.† (source)
- Thus Tarrou, when his hotel was requisitioned, had gone to live with Rieux, and now the Father had to vacate the lodgings provided for him by his Order and stay in the house of a pious old lady who had so far escaped the epidemic.† (source)
- You pious black ape!† (source)
- Simon bounced her and hired Sablonka, an old Polish woman who disliked us, a slow-climbing, muttering, mob-faced, fat, mean, pious widow who was a bad cook besides.† (source)
- I imagined as well a Platonic hereditary work. transmitted from father to son, in which each new individual adds a chapter or corrects with pious care the pages of his elders.† (source)
- Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. sz The pious comforters are humbled; Job is rewarded with a fresh house, fresh servants, and fresh daughters and sons.† (source)
- And as for you, giving yourself pious airs about your motherhood, why, a cat's a better mother than you!† (source)
- They seemed to expect me to clear myself--all, in their ruddiness and size, including the granny who was dissolving from both, losing color and getting small, an old creature in black, wearing pious wig and amulets, who looked to have metaphysical judgmental powers.† (source)
- Also, on the roads, on bicycles and in Ford trucks, were the bearded and long-haired House of David Israelites, a meat-renouncing sect of peaceful, businesslike, pious people, who had a big estate or principality of their own, and farmhouse palaces.† (source)
- When his friends arrive to console him, they declare, with a pious faith in God's justice, that Job must have done some evil to have deserved to be so frightfully afflicted.† (source)
- I asked what he meant, and he said: 'I've had a long talk with a Catholic—a very pious, well-educated one, and I've learned a thing or two.† (source)
- I was almost afraid from your pious talk that you'd had a change of heart, but I see you've got no more sincerity about the Democrats than about anything else.† (source)
- This Franciscan had considerable success, with his tales of pious Indian converts and struggling missions.† (source)
- The laws of the City of God are applied only to his in-group (tribe, church, nation, class, or what not) while the fire of a perpetual holy war is hurled (with good conscience, and indeed a sense of pious service) against whatever uncircumcised, barbarian, heathen, "native," or alien people happens to occupy the position of neighbor.† (source)
- She had looked forward so much to being my bridesmaid—it was a thing we used to talk about long before I came out—and of course she was a very pious child, too.† (source)
- However, I admired him and tried to copy him far more than I ever did my father, for Father is an amiable gentleman full of honorable habits and pious saws—so you see how it goes.† (source)
- And while Mrs. Anticol stayed pious, it was his idea of grand apostasy to drive to the reform synagogue on the high holidays and park his pink-eye nag among the luxurious, whirl-wired touring cars of the rich Jews who bared their heads inside as if they were attending a theater, a kind of abjectness in them that gave him grim entertainment to the end of his life.† (source)
- When Father Latour asked her to give him his portion without chili, the girl inquired whether it was more pious to eat it like that.† (source)
- He had learned from his father, a Tennessee patriarch who ran a farm, preached on Sundays, and put down rebellion in his family with a horse-whip and pious prayers, the advantages of being God!† (source)
- She told him also how precious to them were Father Vaillant's long letters, letters in which he told his sister of the country, the Indians, the pious Mexican women, the Spanish martyrs of old.† (source)
- And then, as we moved on towards the house, "When you met me last night did you think, 'Poor Cordelia, such an engaging child, grown up a plain and pious spinster, full of good works'?† (source)
- …in the book; she was older than the eldest of them by nine years and had married and left home while they were schoolboys; between her and them stood two other sisters; after the birth of the third daughter there had been pilgrimages and pious benefactions in request for a son, for theirs was a wide property and an ancient name; male heirs had come late and, when they came, in a profusion which at the time seemed to promise continuity to the line which, in the tragic event, ended…† (source)
- Reb Leibish, this rabbi, was so pious that he made his wife turn over the whole day's receipts to charity.† (source)
- And there was another called Palaces of Sin, or The Devil in Society, purporting to be the work of a pious millionaire, who had drained his vast fortune in exposing the painted sores that blemish the spotless-seeming hide of great position, and there were enticing pictures showing the author walking in a silk hat down a street full of magnificent palaces of sin.† (source)
- In both towns the greater part of the population went over to the schismatic church, though some pious Mexicans, in great perplexity, attended Mass at both.† (source)
- But while my grandfather was very pious, she only pretended to be-just as I pretend, may God forgive us both.† (source)
- I saw her to bed; the blue lids fell over her eyes; her pale lips moved on the pillow, but whether to wish me good night or to murmur a prayer—a jingle of the nursery that came to her now in the twilight world between sorrow and sleep: some ancient pious rhyme that had come down to Nanny Hawkins from centuries of bedtime whispering, through all the changes of language, from the days of pack-horses on the Pilgrim's Way—I did not know.† (source)
- It was, perhaps, a reversal of custom that the deep-hungering spirit of quest belonged to the one with the greatest love of order, the most pious regard for ritual, who wove into a pattern even his daily tirades of abuse, and that the sprawling blot of chaos, animated by one all-mastering desire for possession, belonged to the practical, the daily person.† (source)
- Even after that rebuff a very pious neighbour woman had tried to say a word to Sada through the alley door of the stable, where she was unloading wood off the burro.† (source)
- The literal digestion of these instructions resulted in one of the most fantastical exhibitions of print-vending ever seen: fortified by his own unlimited cheek, and by the pious axioms of the exhortations that "the good salesman will never take no for his answer," that he should "stick to his prospect" even if rebuffed, that he should "try to get the customer's psychology," the boy would fall into step with an unsuspecting pedestrian, open the broad sheets of The Post under the man's…† (source)
- And it is strange that true Yiddish children of pious parents should prove such God-forsaken dolts and this one-only halfa-jew-perhaps not (I could have found out then and there, but-) circumcised-an iron wit God's ways.† (source)
- The Bishop went into his study, and Father Vaillant brought in Padre Escolastico Herrera, a man of nearly seventy, who had been forty years in the ministry, and had just accomplished the pious desire of a lifetime.† (source)
- If they endured martyrdom, they died among their brethren, their relics were piously preserved, their names lived in the mouths of holy men.† (source)
- This is a land where a Jew can make his fortune if he's got it in him-not to sit piously at a horse's tail all his life!† (source)
- He read piously all the circulars the Curtis Publishing Company sent to its agents: he posed himself in the various descriptive attitudes that were supposed to promote business—the proper manner of "approach," the most persuasive manner of drawing the journal from the bag, the animated description of its contents, in which he was supposed to be steeped as a result of his faithful reading— "the good salesman," the circulars said, "should know in and out the article he is selling"—a…† (source)
- Even the bones were piously preserved.† (source)
- They were not "English to the back-bone," as their aunt had piously asserted.† (source)
- Oh yes, he was of course the more pious.† (source)
- Cronshaw was lying on his back, with his eyes closed and his hands folded piously across his chest.† (source)
- An Arab, the leader of that pious voyage, came last.† (source)
- One of the assessors was a sailing-ship skipper with a reddish beard, and of a pious disposition.† (source)
- "Lord forbidding is pious, but not to the purpose," returned Mr. Jaggers.† (source)
- The big brother counted upon a pious, docile, learned, and honorable pupil.† (source)
- If they were superstitious, they were sincerely pious, and, consequently, honest.† (source)
- "He's a lively chief mate, that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to."† (source)
- "I must visit him," he said, "and obtain some pious grant from him."† (source)
- Do you understand that, friend and brother, you pious and humble novice?† (source)
- A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabez Branderham, in the Chapel of Gimmerden Sough.'† (source)
- "Ay, as honest a keeper as thou art a pious hermit," replied the knight, "I doubt it not.† (source)
- God in heaven bless you, and reward you as a pious daughter deserves to be rewarded!† (source)
- Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to ameliorate the condition of the prisons.† (source)
- 'I asked one of your references, and he said you were pious.'† (source)
- They are a pious, a gentle, and a mild people, and could never tolerate these passions.† (source)
- The business of the day closed with this pious office.† (source)
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