devotion's

Surat, they of China, that for superstition's sake never eat flesh nor fish all their lives, never marry, but live in deserts and by-places, and some pray to their idols twenty-four hours together without any intermission, biting of their tongues when they have done, for devotion's sake.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Lynley made a mental tick next to the possibility of filial-paternal devotion's being a one way street with only Richard Davies travelling down it.

A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

It is apparent, that women were wont to come from other parts to the tabernacle for devotion's sake, not to perform any ministry.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Jerusalem all the seven days; which was indeed generally done by others for devotion's sake.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Nor must we pass over that most interesting of spectacles; viz., some figures enveloped in monkish cowl, and placed in convenient niches; but beneath the close hood, the blood mounts not with devotion's glow, nor do eyes glare from sockets shrunk by abstinence.

A Love Story A Bushman

"With devotion's visage, and pious actions, We do sugar over the devil himself."

Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States William Wells Brown

"How many men in Turkey go naked for devotion's sake?"

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

Tis too much proved -- that with devotion's visage

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

"There is at Jerusalem," says he, "a hospice where admittance is given to all who come to visit the place for devotion's sake, and who speak the Roman tongue; a church, dedicated to St. Mary, is hard by the hospice, and possesseth a very noble library, which it oweth to the zeal of the Emperor Charles the Great."

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830

_ I'll ply Lucretia again, as soon as ever her devotion's over.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665