pious-minded

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.

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Among pious-minded people two extreme errors are not infrequently met with.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

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.

Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

It appealed to the pious-minded who desired a simplification of Christian dogma and a comprehensible method of salvation.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

To his literal, pious-minded wife he at times seemed the incarnation of wickedness.

Mr. Opp 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.

The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Denonville, the governor, a pious-minded dragoon, walked the deck all day reading the Psalms of

The Refugees 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.

Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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.

Life of Martin Luther Koestlin, Julius 1881

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.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837