1 However, I admired him and tried to copy him far more than I ever did my father, for Father is an amiable gentleman full of honorable habits and pious saws--so you see how it goes.
2 I goes in, pious as Widow Bogart, and sits still and never cracks a smile while the preacher is favoring us with his misinformation on evolution.
3 Carol was interrupted only when Mrs. Clark begged, "Dear, don't speak so bitter about 'pious' people.'"
4 For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least.
5 Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 6 Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious bringing-up.
7 Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had before so strongly urged.
8 There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings through the only medium in which he ever indulged.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 9 During the time David occupied in pouring out the pious feelings of his spirit in this manner, not a sign of surprise, nor a look of impatience, escaped them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 10 When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman.
11 Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.
12 No; I mean, really, Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow.
13 Some folks don't believe there is pious niggers Shelby," said Haley, with a candid flourish of his hand, "but I do.
14 "Well, therein you differ from many wise and pious men," said Mr. Shelby.
15 Marie always made a point to be very pious on Sundays.