pious

• As the sentiments are pious, they cannot easily be new; for what can be added to topicks on which successive ages have been employed Of the Paraphrase on Isaiah nothing very favourable can be said. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• But your life will be longer than his, and your end will be pious--and that, too, you will desire before you reach it. —  Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America
• Unlike their pious, high-minded, and sagacious chief, they resembled the bloodhounds they were wont to let loose in chase of their victims How different might have been the fate of the islands had such men as the pilgrim fathers or the enlightened Penn been the first to settle among them! —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
• "The boys were brave--the girls were fair," the mother virtuous, pious, and unpretending. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• But as for his public preaching, this truly good, pious, and learned man might as well sing psalms to a mad horse. —  Diary in America, Series One

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