Nay, but she had deceived his tenderness, his pious respect.
Now he doubted no longer; his involuntary displeasure at his brother's windfall of fortune and his religious affection for his mother had magnified his scruples--very pious and respectable scruples, but exaggerated.
Of pious prelates what a stock You choose to rule the sable flock!
How near was she to be undone, Till pious love inspired her son!
Some explanation is necessary here, as I cannot presume that Americans are yet acquainted with a doctrine called Pious Frauds, held and acted upon by the infallible church.
This is what the holy church calls a pious fraud; and this is what the priests of Boston are doing, in a little different manner, to the children of Protestant mothers.
You should do all in your power to carry out the pious intentions of his holiness the Pope.
Your ancestors have come to this country, with no recommendations but holy lives; with no fortune but their pious hearts and strong arms; with no treasure but the word of God.
This, said they in their wisdom, must be prevented; and here is a case where our doctrine of pious frauds comes beautifully into play.
It is ad-dressed to Papists, whether in Oregon or the United States, and what are the pious intentions of the Pope?
O Maruts, you shake the red apple from the firmament, whose splendor no enemy can touch; the hamlets bowed when the Maruts blazed, and the pious people intoned their far-reaching shout.
The pious singers have, after their own mind, shouted towards the giver of wealth, the great, the glorious Indra.
And the same spirit that created these images also produced those poetical effusions, the same spirit of pious belief, of deep devotion, of heavenly longing.
Read your Bibles and other pious books; attend to all your prayer meetings and all your philanthropic societies.
It seems to me, that, as he becomes older, his pure and pious nature becomes more developed--or does this proceed from my being now better able to appreciate him?
In my terror I began to sing, but search in my head as I would, I could think of no pious song except 'The grave is deep and still,' and that was really too dismal.
There is a kind of happiness attainable, not by one only, but by all who are capable of enjoying it, and that is the appreciation and love of a pure and pious heart.
Live a good life, and a pious one, and you can train up both your children and your parishioners, without possessing much learning, and without such endless wear and tear of care and anxiety.
The old hymns had been replaced by pious reflections on subjects of religion and morality.
It is true that the ceremonial of a religion is not likely to develop during the life of the founder, for pious recollection and recitation of his utterances in the form of scripture are as yet impossible.
Pious laymen keep all these eight precepts, at least on Uposatha days, and often make a vow to observe them for some special period.
Originally the robes were made of rags collected and sewed together but it soon became the practice for pious laymen to supply the Order with raiment.
But the taste for building remained and somewhat later pious Jains again began to construct large edifices which are generally less degenerate than modern Hindu temples, though they often show traces of Mohammedan influence.
Frequently, instead of begging for alms, he accepted an invitation to dine with some pious person who asked the whole band of disciples and made strenuous culinary efforts.
It appeared natural that a pious King should see that the sacred law was observed, and begin by ascertaining what that law was.
The former is no longer the demon-slaying soma-drinking deity of the Vedas, but the heavenly counterpart of a pious Buddhist king.
Even the Jain scriptures admit that pious householders were disgusted by the ascetics who asked for a lodging in their houses—naked, unwashed men, foul to smell and loathsome to behold[533].
This was natural, for the laity were taught that their duty was to give and the Order had to decide how much it could properly receive from those pious souls who were only too happy to acquire merit.
The work of ministering to the order, of supplying it with food and raiment, naturally fell largely to pious matrons, and their attentive forethought delighted to provide for the monks those comforts which might be accepted but not asked for.
His mother, a good pious Catholic, whose warmest aspiration was to see her children in the fold of the true church, encouraged this disposition by all the means in her power, and the result of her pious care shortly became apparent.
Pious Israelites might have found befitting expression for that lament in the words, "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet" (Psa.
Hooker described the life of a piousclergyman of his acquaintance as "visible rhetoric," convincing even the most godless of the beauty of goodness.
The river then having done service and fulfilled the pious duty, returned to its natural course, leaving a testimony of its obedience.
Bede reverts more than once to the subject of Anna's pious offspring, v.
Being put into the government of that monastery, she showed herself in all respects worthy of her brother the bishop, by her own holy life and by her regular and pious care of those under her rule, as was also manifested by heavenly miracles.
But Pecksniff cared for nothing but money, and, as Jonas was now rich, he pretended great love for his new son-in-law and went around with his hands clasped and his eyes lifted to Heaven in pious thankfulness.
But he recovered himself, and clasped his hands with a look of piousjoy to see the old man safe and well.
Marguerite with an indescribable accent of anguish, "it would seem to me to be more pious to place a longer interval between two ceremonies of so opposite a nature.
He walked through the portrait gallery; it was in the same state as he had formerly seen it; no pious hand had added to the portrait either of the marquis or the marchioness.
I remained motionless, divided between the funereal awe which such a sight inspired, and the pious desire of raising the covering to kiss once more before he should be inclosed in his coffin, the venerable forehead of my dear father.
Charlton's feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College and Swift's Pious Meditation upon a Broomstick, in the Style of the Honourable Mr. Boyle.
Almost all pious men of a free and exalted spirit who were in cloisters, turned to the gospel, and a new and noble blood soon circulated in their orders, which were in a manner the arteries of German Catholicity.
The word of truth was in the sanctuary of some pious souls, but, to use a Scripture expression, it had not "free course" in the world.
The pious were charmed and penetrated with the sweetness of this doctrine, while the learned received it gladly.
Quite amazed, the pious monk declares, that since they refuse to promise amendment, he cannot give them absolution.
The pious son of Margaret accordingly sought to say a mass on that day, but could not; the press was too great.
At the moment when the great blow was struck, pious and brave men came forth from their obscurity, and abandoned the retreat of the monastic life, for the active career of ministers of the word of God.
These simple words, which thepious friar calmly repeated at this decisive moment, poured great consolation into the soul of Luther.
This offering goes to defray the expenses of the Association, and whatever remains over and above the expenses is devoted to pious and charitable purposes.
Zoe had not reached her eighth year when death took her pious mother, and henceforth this peasant child felt that Mary, the Consoler of the Afflicted, would be her only Mother.
Her piousact was greeted with a shout of applause.
The waxen limbs of all kinds that already hung like a wreath around the sacred picture bore witness to the efficacy of this pious custom.
Such pious people as you are can always make friends with the Almighty, and therefore a grand coach is sent to drive over you, while only a huge stone in the quarry crushed my hip, and there was no fuss made about it.
The more pious part of the community thronged to the churches, from which they had been so long absent, and returned thanks for their unexpected deliverance.
Either Napoleon must go into war with shouts of "Judas" hurled at him by all pious Roman Catholics; or he must try his fortunes without the much-coveted help of Austria and Italy.
Little by little it deepened to a hoarse roar, as the host surged on, chanting the pious invocations that so often had struck terror into the Egyptians.
But his handsome person and the sweetness of his voice served the arch-enemy as weapons to turn against his pious efforts, and to turn all good into evil.
The shepherd and lay-brethren it is, who go forth with torches and biers from the Hospice of Saint Valentine in the moor, which pious faith has erected for the lost traveller here in the wilderness.
It is well that the pious brother there is blind, for if he had eyes to see you it would go hard with him.
Berntrudis--unworthy daughter of your pious ancestress, how dare you carry on such unseemly doings?
Berntrudis looked thoughtfully down at the linen garments; it touched her to think that her ancestress, the pious Berntrudis, should have helped with her hands to spin the web in which she, so long after, might clothe herself.
And the church too was to reap her harvest; the seed of faith, which the pious monks had sown, twenty years ago, in the heart of the tiny foundling, had grown fair and strong and full in ear.
Oh, I was pious and good like you once; I would have been content if only they would have let me see Donatus for one hour.
Only think, after thepious waiting maid of the Lady Uta of Trasp, our noble foundress.
I wish the pious sisterhood had been in the sea before they had taught you these disgraceful tricks," retorted the young lady.
At this point a cross road strikes off to the pueblito of Piedad, and at the crossing there is a small house, or rather a temple, where the pious wayfarer kneels in his dusty devotions.
The physicians entreated her to leave the chamber of death, and the pious empress consented to withdraw to her own.
Oh, that you had been reared among our pious sisterhood!
In the second book of the Aeneid, the pious one finds Helen hiding in the shrine of Vesta, and determines to slay "the common curse of Troy and of her own country.
Few poets are less chivalrous than Virgil; no hero has less of chivalry than his pious and tearful Aeneas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
