Mrs. Pendennis saw Blanche light-minded and frivolous, detected many wants in her which offended the pure and pious-minded lady; a want of reverence for her parents, and for things more sacred, Helen thought: worldliness and selfishness couched under pretty words and tender expressions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Among pious-minded people two extreme errors are not infrequently met with. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
But Luther saw in it nothing more that was essential, such as would necessitate further controversy, or deter him from friendly intercourse with these pious-minded people. ❋ Julius Koestlin (N/A)
It appealed to the pious-minded who desired a simplification of Christian dogma and a comprehensible method of salvation. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)
To his literal, pious-minded wife he at times seemed the incarnation of wickedness. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)
While the community was in this state of demoralization, each, from the abbot downwards, vying with the other in the number and enormity of their sins, there came a pious-minded youth from a neighbouring village, who begged that he might be permitted to join the order. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Denonville, the governor, a pious-minded dragoon, walked the deck all day reading the Psalms of ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
I had rather see any man for whose welfare I cared, married to a virtuous and pious-minded housemaid, than to this young lady, as she is called, with all her wealth and position, who would eat out his soul with her acid unbelief and turn the world upside down to satisfy her fancy. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Blanche light-minded and frivolous, detected many wants in her which offended the pure and pious-minded lady; a want of reverence for her parents, and for things more sacred, Helen thought: worldliness and selfishness couched under pretty words and tender expressions. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
The other awardees included a pious-minded personality V. S.ankar; a noted V.dic scholar S. Krishnamoorthy Ganapadigal; renowed literary giant and former Editor of 'Amudasurabi,' ❋ Unknown (2009)
A small community, isolated from other communities by the accidents of position, often comes to believe that its way of doing things is the way of the world; a small body of religious people, devoutly attentive to their own observances, often reach the conclusion that these observances are the practice of that catholic church which includes the pious-minded of all creeds and rituals; a group of radical reformers, by passionate advocacy of a single reform, come to believe that there have been no reformers before them, and that none will be needed after them; a band of fresh and audacious young practitioners of any of the arts, by dint of insistence upon a certain manner, rapidly generate the conviction that art has no other manner. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)
Not that I'm afraid of snakes, "I hastened to add;" but I'd hate to delay any pious-minded reptile conscientiously bent on reaching the scene of his religious duties. " ❋ Dama Margaret Smith (1932)
