1 As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
2 As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.
3 He was deeply, even slavishly, devout.
4 Cassy yielded at once, and with her whole soul, to every good influence, and became a devout and tender Christian.
5 She often repeated her prayers; not at particular times, but, like the unaffectedly devout, when she desired to pray.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 6 The devout hope is that he is doing well.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 7 "The Russians are very devout," replied Balashev.
8 By Agrafena Ivanovna's advice Natasha prepared herself not in their own parish, but at a church where, according to the devout Agrafena Ivanovna, the priest was a man of very severe and lofty life.
9 I've got them all, thank God, and am the happiest woman in the world, and Meg laid her hand on her tall boy's head, with a face full of tender and devout content.
10 He was Des Roches le Masle, canon of Notre Dame, who had formerly been valet of a bishop, who introduced him to his Eminence as a perfectly devout man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL 11 She knew she should believe devoutly, as they did, that a born lady remained a lady, even if reduced to poverty, but she could not make herself believe it now.
12 Only Melanie and Carreen realized that a devoutly Catholic Irishman was being laid to rest by the Church of England's service.
13 When she gets back from Tara she will start again hammer and tongs with the store and those mills which I wish devoutly would explode some night.
14 Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned.
15 Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.