pious person
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“If I was a pious person, I could have concluded that I had committed murder, and that all those souls will haunt me forever,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Yet every pious person adores that heaven and wants to get into it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Consuelo is a natural, not a pious person.
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke
He was a great scholar, and himself under some suspicion of knowing more than it would be good for any less pious person to know.
From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade
"A pious person," suggested Razumov, with a pale smile, "would say that the hand of God has done it all."
From Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
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