1 Mrs. Bogart spoke of the eloquence of the Reverend Mr. Zitterel, the coldness of cold days, the price of poplar wood, Dave Dyer's new hair-cut, and Cy Bogart's essential piety.
2 The congregation had doffed their piety.
3 He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.
4 Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 5 He made the greatest pretensions to piety.
6 Sam's vein of piety was always uncommonly fervent in his mistress' presence; and he made great capital of scriptural figures and images.
7 The real piety and benevolence of the simple old man invested him with a temporary dignity and authority, as he spoke.
8 You ladies go to church to learn how to get along in the world, I suppose, and your piety sheds respectability on us.
9 The mulatto woman was a member of the Methodist church, and had an unenlightened but very sincere spirit of piety.
10 Eliza's steady, consistent piety, regulated by the constant reading of the sacred word, made her a proper guide for the shattered and wearied mind of her mother.
11 The incorruptible fidelity, piety and honesty, of Uncle Tom, had more than one development, to her personal knowledge.
12 Stephen knelt at his side respecting, though he did not share, his piety.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 13 He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 14 Their dull piety and the sickly smell of the cheap hair-oil with which they had anointed their heads repelled him from the altar they prayed at.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 15 It surprised him however to find that at the end of his course of intricate piety and self-restraint he was so easily at the mercy of childish and unworthy imperfections.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4