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
"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
Of him I had only heard that he was a very austere and pious person, always at Mass, and that sort of thing.
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Conrad, Joseph
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 Northcote, Rosalind
From another pious person in this city, John Yeardley received a word of timely encouragement.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John
