Piously

Examples

• God won't be so cruel as to take you from me, cried poor Jo rebelliously, for her spirit was far less piously submissive than Beth's. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And now, he's got a new one,--a young thing, only fifteen, and she brought up, she says, piously. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• De Lord will pervide, said Sam, rolling up his eyes piously. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr. Bumble raised his eyes piously to the ceiling in thankfulness; and, bringing them down again to the brim of the cup, lifted it to his nose. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• An absolutism like Russia's is served better when the people accept their ideas as authoritative and piously sacrifice humanity to a non-human purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It seems almost an aggravation to her to remember how purely and piously, how much above the ordinary lot, she has been brought up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My parents had early given me religious impressions, and brought me through my childhood piously in the dissenting way. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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