Usage examples for piety
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With a sigh of relief, and a hasty thanksgiving to her patron saint, she at once began to praise the virtue and piety of the servant as well as his lord; but Eva again interrupted, and asked what Sir Heinz Schorlin desired. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers
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Under sentence of death the prisoner behaved with great piety and resignation. – Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
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But she possessed what was better still- a single eye to her Master's glory, a truly humble mind, and genuine piety. – The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton