Word: pious
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...thirty pious pacifists who intend to bring on an epidemic of world peace by forswearing their most sacred obligations seem to be more jealous of their personal reputations than their lofty ideals...
...Cardinal requests that his jubilee be essentially modest and pious...
...twentieth century we consider all this prayer mongery ridiculous. And that pious souls from the thirteen colleges in the Middle west should send solemn prayers to "Godless Harvard" in carload consignments, in bales and bundles, like free sample packages of Post Toasties, seems to me scarcely less...
...Just about as stimulating as a dish of cambric tea . . . Pious phrases and sympathetic advice to everybody to cease being naughty and all join hands in a real romping game of ring-around-a-rosy."?a Hearst editorial...
...fact in many other colleges. The men from private schools control most of the undergraduate activities. The men from the public schools are at the head only in study and scholarship, the main purpose, aside from the ecclesastical object of the more ancient foundations which our wise and pious ancestors and their descendants established and endowed...