Sentence examples for pious in from inspiring English sources

Veronika Part was weightily pious in the "Mozartiana" Preghiera.

His works, however pious in theme, chiefly advertise Michelangelo as God-touched.

The Donation of Pippin was confirmed by Pippin's successors, Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, in 778 and 817 respectively.

Her talk was ostensibly about religion and literature, particularly the astonishingly rare "appearances of the pious" in her eleven novels.

323 Not pious in its proper sense, But chattring like a bird, Of sin and grace in such a case Mag-piety's the word.

On the death of Charlemagne's sole surviving son and successor, Louis the Pious, in 840, three of his sons contested the succession.

Gulen was raised in a very pious family in Eastern Turkey in traditional Sunni Islam while also being immersed in various sufi teachings.

Rice had long been interested in the story of Jesus' life, but not exactly in the pious way in which the dean was probably thinking.

MR. MADJID grew up in a pious family in central Java.

Dwight Eisenhower uttered this pious hope in Delhi in 1959 and, ever since, an American president has popped back once in a while to utter it again.

The members of the Sanhedrins had to be ordained, pious, mature in age, sound in mind and body, of wide knowledge, and of pure Jewish descent.