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
I never before saw a pious person amiable and good like him.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
Pressed for an explanation, he replied that a pious person who was vouchsafed communication with the Lord in prayer had seen Father Domenecchi in heaven shining in glory and with a halo round his head.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
Well—a pious person, with a prayer-book in her hand—what could she say?
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
"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 Conrad, Joseph
