pious person
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Yet every pious person adores that heaven and wants to get into it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Rosalind Northcote
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
I had supposed you," he wrote in his new estate, "a very pious person, and that a large proportion of the Abolitionists were religious persons....
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
You are perhaps, for the moment, surprised, whatever might have been admitted of Æneas, to hear Horace spoken of as a pious person.
From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin
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