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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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
Well—a pious person, with a prayer-book in her hand—what could she say?
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honoré de Balzac
That old lady is the most pious person I ever met, and with her it seems entirely sincere.
From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Charles Clark Munn
