pious person
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Yet every pious person adores that heaven and wants to get into it.
From Time Magazine Archive
All acts done by a good and pious person are good and laudable, including even the touching of the hair of a cow's tail.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
I never before saw a pious person amiable and good like him.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
Hadn't some pious person said that it was always darkest before the dawn?
From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)
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
