The wife, a simple pious woman, left with all the wealth in and out of the magnificent trade, of which she never knew the precise nature, had come to believe in Bulstrode, and innocently adore him as women often adore their priest or "man-made" minister.
Ronaldson looked down with a slightly pious expression which indicated, I felt sure, that they thought the quotation was from Holy Writ.
There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.
Benjamin Franklin · Franklin's parents were both pious Puritans.
This is why all the pious people I know married each other within three months of meeting.
He didn't have any sick mother, either — a sick mother who was pious and had the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in the grave and be at rest but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she felt that the world might be harsh and cold toward him when she was gone.
He said, "She is too pious and good to do anything like that.
There were three pious monks.
She pulled herself together and said, with a pious two-per-cent.
She was good and pious, however.
Now, for instance, you wouldn't think I had had a pious mother--to look at me?
He married Madam Pang and the couple was pious.
His father died when he was young and he was very pious to his mother.
His mother died when he was nine years old and he was very pious to his father.
He was very pious to his mother and later his family's financial situation went worse gradually.
" Yuan Shu was very surprised to learn he was pious to his mother at such a young age.
His father died when he was young and he was very pious to his mother.
Although the old woman was very pious, she was not at all indifferent to the magnificence of all around her, which she seemed to understand as well as to admire, and when she had seen it all she was led by the servants before the princess, who was seated in a room which surpassed in splendour all the rest.
He travelled to China to avenge his brother's death, and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him.
There was once a tailor, who was a quarrelsome fellow, and his wife, who was good, industrious, and pious, never could please him.
