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  • Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.†   (source)
  • Speaking of a devoutly Christian peasant, Farmer once said to me, "Of course he believes in Voodoo.†   (source)
  • We were to write in on a piece of paper, pray devoutly for nine days, and if we'd prayed well it would be answered.†   (source)
  • Has there ever been another art so devoutly converted into a science as the art of parenting?†   (source)
  • Which Charlie devoutly wanted to believe was the selfsame object on his credenza.†   (source)
  • Elder Sister, whocould have felt bitter about her own fate, devoutly wished for everything the matchmaker had proposed to come true, knowing our whole family would benefit.†   (source)
  • One of his Talmud teachers described his devoutness and dedication to Judaism, his mathematics professor talked about his brilliance as a student, and one of the members of the senior class told of the way he had always spoken of going to Israel.†   (source)
  • Maybe, as her lawyers said, she had killed them because she was so deeply depressed, because she had been sexually abused by her own stepfather, a corpulent leading Republican and devoutly religious man named Bev Russell, then used by every man she had ever gone to, searching for love.†   (source)
  • And when he had mildly objected to the suddenness of the proposed, unscheduled conference, the pain in his chest had burst into fire, the flames traveling up to his throat at the Soviet's reply: "What I have to show you will make you devoutly wish we never knew each other, much less had any occasion to meet this morning.†   (source)
  • He devoutly wished he had finished the job.†   (source)
  • It is a painful and thankless office…… I devoutly wish you may be able to shun for us this war by which our agriculture, commerce, and credit will be destroyed.†   (source)
  • And if she were alive, as I devoutly wish she were, and able to help us, she would not come with worthless charms, for you know her cures were always practical things, made of common earthly weeds and worts, that she in her wisdom knew the health-giving use for.†   (source)
  • "For some reason," Barbara said, "you don't strike me as a devoutly religious man."†   (source)
  • I devoutly hope so.†   (source)
  • She believed devoutly in people's capacity for change, sometimes to the exasperation of everyone else in the family.†   (source)
  • "Oh my word," Fremantle went on devoutly, "but he's a tricky one.†   (source)
  • [He picks up the invisible sandals, and kisses them devoutly.†   (source)
  • …now as if he were suddenly speaking to her, an identifiable human being, rather than to a slave laborer, eine schmutzige Polin, plucked out of the swarm of diseased and dying ants through incredible luck (or by the grace of God, she sometimes devoutly reflected) and by virtue of the fact that she was doubtless one of the very few prisoners, if not the only one, who, bilingual in Polish and German, was also proficient on the typewriter in both languages and knew Gabelsberger shorthand.†   (source)
  • ANNIE twinkles at KATE with mock devoutness.†   (source)
  • He knew how to see into all of them, feel out their hearts inside his own, love them and hate them and forgive them: he understood that nothing devoutly believed is mere error, though it may only be half-truth, and so he could give them what they needed.†   (source)
  • But God showed her only what she knew already: that come what might she must, as a Christian woman, as a Catholic, bring up her children thoroughly and devoutly in the Faith, and that it was also her task, more than her husband's, that the family remain one, that the gulf be closed.†   (source)
  • She was the second most devout lady in Maycomb.   (source)
  • How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up?†   (source)
  • No society in human history worshipped science more devoutly or more blindly than the Soviet Union, where "scientific socialism" was considered the highest truth.†   (source)
  • Q. I devoutly hope so.†   (source)
  • Tourists took pictures, posing each other in front of the car, taking turns snapping and posing, and there were Krishna skinheads with handbells, young and pale in ocher robes and high-top sneakers, jumping devoutly up and down.†   (source)
  • …that last hour, while her mind rushed on over thoughts as precise and sharp as the rods of an iron fence: had been through it and out of it to the light again, forced into the shabby role for which she had not the faintest desire and from which she drew, she devoutly believed, no satisfaction (she knew what satisfaction was, knew where she would prefer to be)--the role of God or archetypal mother or stone at the center of the universe--because by senseless accident she had borne sons.†   (source)
  • But God had his reasons, Father Joseph devoutly believed.†   (source)
  • It pays," he added devoutly, "to be a Christian."†   (source)
  • I wished to see this done after the first world war, and I devoutly trust it may be done forthwith.†   (source)
  • I wished to see this done after the First World War, and I devoutly trust it may be done forthwith.†   (source)
  • 'I devoutly trust we are,' said Jimmy as he stepped out into another inky void.†   (source)
  • "Oh, obscenity them," Primitivo said with an absolute devoutness of blasphemy, tears in his eyes and his cheeks twitching.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It was as though she was aware of a rhythm, a tune, a compulsion, outside of herself, and devoutly followed it in its subtle and winding progression.†   (source)
  • She was taught there to take such part as girls did then in the lives of distinguished men; to pour out tea; to hand them their strawberries and cream; to listen devoutly, reverently to their wisdom; to accept the fact that Watts was the great painter; Tennyson the great poet; and to dance with the Prince of Wales.†   (source)
  • Thus instead of insulting her, she concluded with spiteful triumph, David's father had really done her a good turn— but now that he had done it, she devoutly hoped he would break a leg on the way to wherever he was going.†   (source)
  • Possibly the man devoutly believed each of the utterances at the time he delivered it; possibly his mind too was a house divided against itself.†   (source)
  • Not once, to my astonishment, did I step on her feet, and when the music stopped, we both stood where we were and clapped till the dance was played again; and then with a lover's zeal I devoutly performed the rite once more.†   (source)
  • This morning, a Monday, the only worshippers were Mr Takemoto, a theological student living in the mission house; Mr Fukai, the secretary of the diocese; Mrs Murata, the mission's devoutly Christian house— keeper and his fellow-priests.†   (source)
  • The game was dull, but the duller it got, the more devoutly the Boss followed every play, and the more anxious he was to cheer.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Only Melanie and Carreen realized that a devoutly Catholic Irishman was being laid to rest by the Church of England's service.†   (source)
  • Carreen, more devoutly Catholic than her sisters, had been very upset that Scarlett had neglected to bring a priest from Atlanta with her and had only been a little eased by the reminder that when the priest came down to marry Will and Suellen, he could read the services over Gerald.†   (source)
  • [Crossing herself devoutly] I believe in the Life to Come.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned.†   (source)
  • He held up his arms devoutly, and raised his hat.†   (source)
  • I believed devoutly in her power to fascinate him, in her dazzling loveliness.†   (source)
  • 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.†   (source)
  • "O yes, Mas'r," said Topsy, with another twinkle, her hands still devoutly folded.†   (source)
  • Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly.†   (source)
  • Long--long I read--and devoutly, devotedly I gazed.†   (source)
  • Gringoire was devoutly examining its exterior sculptures.†   (source)
  • I believe devoutly in a natural difference of vocation.†   (source)
  • Grushenka stood up and crossed herself devoutly before the ikon.†   (source)
  • She was ashamed of her fear; but she was devoutly thankful there was nothing else to be ashamed of.†   (source)
  • "Devoutly spoken," said Locksley; "and where is Allan-a-Dale?"†   (source)
  • "Oh, father," cried the girl, still more faintly, devoutly thankful the carriage was dark.†   (source)
  • He dropped his eyes devoutly and raised the little flower that he held in his fingers to his lips.†   (source)
  • From this thought he shuddered away, and listened devoutly to Eathorne's ideas on the advancement of the Sunday School, which were very clear and very bad.†   (source)
  • The priest was carrying the sacrament against his chest, it had a cover over it, and holding his head very devoutly to one side—it's their holy of holies, after all.†   (source)
  • The baby was smiling up at her, for the first time in its life, just at that moment; and while I watched the woman she suddenly crossed herself, oh, so devoutly!†   (source)
  • I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker.†   (source)
  • Indeed, since reaching the buffalo fields, she had become a negligible attraction, for which she was devoutly thankful.†   (source)
  • This was not a boast, but a hope, at once bold and devoutly humble, that he might bring the Muse (but lately come to Italy from her cloudy Grecian mountains), not to the capital, the palatia Romana, but to his own little I country'; to his father's fields, 'sloping down to the river and to the old beech trees with broken tops.'†   (source)
  • When he finds people chattering harmlessly about Anatole France and Nietzsche, he devastates them with Matthew Arnold, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and even Macaulay; and as he is devoutly religious at bottom, he first leads the unwary, by humorous irreverences, to wave popular theology out of account in discussing moral questions with him, and then scatters them in confusion by demanding whether the carrying out of his ideals of conduct was not the manifest object of God…†   (source)
  • "Well, God bless her, God bless her, if such is her destiny," said Lizabetha, crossing herself devoutly.†   (source)
  • But the old lady, before Parfen had time to touch her, raised her right hand, and, with three fingers held up, devoutly made the sign of the cross three times over the prince.†   (source)
  • She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor.†   (source)
  • Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.†   (source)
  • Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.†   (source)
  • 'I—ha—I most devoutly hope so, Amy.†   (source)
  • Balthasar raised his eyes devoutly.†   (source)
  • His means increased rapidly; serfs from neighboring estates came to beg him to buy them, and long after his death the memory of his administration was devoutly preserved among the serfs.†   (source)
  • He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.†   (source)
  • Agafea Mihalovna, her face heated and angry, her hair untidy, and her thin arms bare to the elbows, was turning the preserving-pan over the charcoal stove, looking darkly at the raspberries and devoutly hoping they would stick and not cook properly.†   (source)
  • Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.†   (source)
  • As for Hetty, as soon as she found that her efforts to make her father listen to her texts were no longer rewarded with success, she knelt at his side and devoutly repeated the words which the Saviour has left behind him as a model for human petitions.†   (source)
  • Let him be to thee forever a sort of beautiful enemy, untamable, devoutly revered, and not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.†   (source)
  • The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife.†   (source)
  • 'Certainly,' replied Nicholas: devoutly hoping that it would be a very long time before he was honoured with this distinction.†   (source)
  • Those eyes! those large, those shining, those divine orbs! they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers.†   (source)
  • Among them, quivering to and fro between gloom and splendor, appeared faces that would be seen next day at the council board of the province, and others which, Sabbath after Sabbath, looked devoutly heavenward, and benignantly over the crowded pews, from the holiest pulpits in the land.†   (source)
  • So they took it, handling it as cautiously and devoutly as if it had been some holy thing come from some supernatural region; and gently felt of its texture, caressed its pleasant smooth surface with lingering touch, and scanned the mysterious characters with fascinated eyes.†   (source)
  • "I have observed a tendency to predominance," she said, smiling; and Philip at that moment devoutly hoped that she found the tendency disagreeable.†   (source)
  • "Do you observe," said the Countess G—— to Albert, who had returned to her side, "that man does nothing like other people; he listens most devoutly to the third act of 'Robert le Diable,' and when the fourth begins, takes his departure."†   (source)
  • Nicholas bowed low to the young lady and retired, pondering upon Mr Bray's ideas of independence, and devoutly hoping that there might be few such independent spirits as he mingling with the baser clay of humanity.†   (source)
  • —But she had thought the work was to be something greater, which she could serve in devoutly for its own sake.†   (source)
  • Devoutly thankful to Heaven for his recovered self-possession, he thought, "There is but another now," and turned to walk again.†   (source)
  • The people listened devoutly.†   (source)
  • Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.†   (source)
  • Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who had just got out of bed.†   (source)
  • "It is—it is—most thankfully—most devoutly acknowledged," said Rebecca—"it shall be still more so—but not now—for the sake of thy beloved Rachel, father, grant my request—not now!"†   (source)
  • Affery, remembering that the clever one had said he would explain himself further in four-and-twenty hours' time, determined for her part that his taking himself off within that period with all he could get, was the final satisfactory sum and substance of his promised explanation; but she held her peace, devoutly thankful to be quit of him.†   (source)
  • This searching after faith, she thought, was only one merit the more, and in the pride of her devoutness Emma compared herself to those grand ladies of long ago whose glory she, had dreamed of over a portrait of La Valliere, and who, trailing with so much majesty the lace-trimmed trains of their long gowns, retired into solitudes to shed at the feet of Christ all the tears of hearts that life had wounded.†   (source)
  • As I parted hurriedly from the dear girl to whom I owed so much, and thought from what she had been saved, perhaps, that morning — her better resolution notwithstanding — I felt devoutly thankful for the miseries of my younger days which had brought me to the knowledge of Mr. Micawber.†   (source)
  • And perhaps here was an opportunity indicated for making her mind more worthy of its highest service; perhaps the noblest, completest devoutness could hardly exist without some width of knowledge; must she always live in this resigned imprisonment?†   (source)
  • This she read steadily, from beginning to end, in a sweet, low and plaintive voice; hoping devoutly that the allegorical and abstruse sentences might convey to the heart of the sufferer the consolation he needed.†   (source)
  • She crossed herself devoutly.†   (source)
  • "May the God of Abraham be praised!" said Rebecca, folding her hands devoutly; "the name of a judge, though an enemy to my people, is to me as the name of a protector.†   (source)
  • Here, as though seized with a sudden idea, he flung himself on his knees before his chair, took off his hat, placed it on the seat, and gazing devoutly at one of the leaden amulets which loaded it down, "Oh!" said he, with clasped hands, "our Lady of Paris, my gracious patroness, pardon me.†   (source)
  • Never had this woman, who was such a fateful influence in his life, aroused such love in his breast, such new and unknown feeling, surprising even to himself, a feeling tender to devoutness, to self-effacement before her!†   (source)
  • "Thou art an honest fellow," replied the robber, "I warrant thee; and we worship not St Nicholas so devoutly but what thy thirty zecchins may yet escape, if thou deal uprightly with us.†   (source)
  • He entered perfectly breathless into the aerial chamber of the great bell; he gazed at her a moment, devoutly and lovingly; then he gently addressed her and patted her with his hand, like a good horse, which is about to set out on a long journey.†   (source)
  • Richard and Wilfred followed the Saxon Cedric into the apartment of death, where, as their guide pointed with solemn air to the untimely bier of Athelstane, they followed his example in devoutly crossing themselves, and muttering a brief prayer for the weal of the departed soul.†   (source)
  • When the archdeacon had repeated to the condemned girl; "He is dead," the fact is that he knew nothing about it, but that he believed it, that he counted on it, that he did not doubt it, that he devoutly hoped it.†   (source)
  • The Prior of Jorvaulx crossed himself and repeated a pater noster, in which all devoutly joined, excepting the Jew, the Mahomedans, and the Templar; the latter of whom, without vailing his bonnet, or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic, took from his neck a gold chain, which he flung on the board, saying—"Let Prior Aymer hold my pledge and that of this nameless vagrant, in token that when the Knight of Ivanhoe comes within the four seas of Britain, he…†   (source)
  • Djali reared himself on his hind legs, and began to bleat, marching along with so much dainty gravity, that the entire circle of spectators burst into a laugh at this parody of the interested devoutness of the captain of pistoliers.†   (source)
  • So came in a damosel passing fair and young, and she bare a vessel of gold betwixt her hands; and thereto the king kneeled devoutly, and said his prayers, and so did all that were there.†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur let array priests and clerks in the most devoutest manner, to bring in Sir Urre within Carlisle, with singing and loving to God.†   (source)
  • And then he kneeled down and made his prayer devoutly unto Almighty Jesu, for he was one of the best knights of the world that at that time was, in whom the very faith stood most in.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Launcelot prayed Sir Urre to let him see his head; and then devoutly kneeling he ransacked the three wounds, that they bled a little, and forthwith all the wounds fair healed, and seemed as they had been whole a seven year.†   (source)
  • And within a while they came to the hermitage and took lodging; and was there grass, oats and bread for their horses; soon it was sped, and full hard was their supper; but there they rested them all night till on the morn, and heard a mass devoutly, and took their leave of the hermit, and Sir Tor prayed the hermit to pray for him.†   (source)
  • So when they were so chosen by the assent of all the barons, so were there found in their sieges every knights' names that here are rehearsed, and so were they set in their sieges; whereof Sir Bagdemagus was wonderly wroth, that Sir Tor was advanced afore him, and therefore suddenly he departed from the court, and took his squire with him, and rode long in a forest till they came to a cross, and there alighted and said his prayers devoutly.†   (source)
  • …tie drooping on his scorch-yellow shirt, his lumpy shoes toeing inward wearily, fingers the color of piano keys: and it was a part of his weariness that his substance did not interfere any more than a stranger's--that Coleridge poem--with her undevout vision of the chair behind him or the threadbare rug beneath his heavy shoes: not a ghost, exactly, or a dream either, but the heaviness of the morning brought down to the not quite invisible figure of a man because once on such a morning…†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undevout means not and reverses the meaning of devout. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • STEPHEN: (Devoutly) And sovereign Lord of all things.†   (source)
  • From inside information extending over a series of years Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.†   (source)
  • —To die,—to sleep,— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd.†   (source)
  • At length her Grace rose, and with modest paces Came to the altar; where she kneel'd, and saintlike Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly; Then rose again and bow'd her to the people, When by the Archbishop of Canterbury She had all the royal makings of a queen, As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems Laid nobly on her; which perform'd, the choir, With all the choicest music of the kingdom, Together sung "Te Deum."†   (source)
  • And within a while they came to the hermitage and took lodging; and was there grass, oats and bread for their horses; soon it was sped, and full hard was their supper; but there they rested them all night till on the morn, and heard a mass devoutly, and took their leave of the hermit, and Sir Tor prayed the hermit to pray for him.†   (source)
  • Blifil assured him he had no such guard; and then proceeded to discourse so wisely and religiously on love and marriage, that he would have stopt the mouth of a parent much less devoutly inclined than was his uncle.†   (source)
  • His parishens* devoutly would he teach.†   (source)
  • He attacked like an angry lion, but he was met by a tap on the mouth from the button of the licentiate's sword that checked him in the midst of his furious onset, and made him kiss it as if it were a relic, though not as devoutly as relics are and ought to be kissed.†   (source)
  • He alone ate with all his might, And devoutly devoured a pair of pheasants And a leg of lamb in our lady's presence.†   (source)
  • Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man.†   (source)
  • What kind of Felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honour him, a man shall no sooner know, than enjoy; being joys, that now are as incomprehensible, as the word of School-men, Beatifical Vision, is unintelligible.†   (source)
  • So came in a damosel passing fair and young, and she bare a vessel of gold betwixt her hands; and thereto the king kneeled devoutly, and said his prayers, and so did all that were there.†   (source)
  • He pass'd the mark; and, wheeling, got before: Gyas blasphem'd the gods, devoutly swore, Cried out for anger, and his hair he tore.†   (source)
  • Sancho fell upon his knees devoutly appealing to heaven to deliver him from such imminent peril; which it did by the activity and quickness of the millers, who, pushing against the boat with their poles, stopped it, not, however, without upsetting and throwing Don Quixote and Sancho into the water; and lucky it was for Don Quixote that he could swim like a goose, though the weight of his armour carried him twice to the bottom; and had it not been for the millers, who plunged in and…†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur let array priests and clerks in the most devoutest manner, to bring in Sir Urre within Carlisle, with singing and loving to God.†   (source)
  • Yet from our lineage he derives his name, And, in the fourth degree, from god Pilumnus came; Yet he devoutly pays you rites divine, And offers daily incense at your shrine.†   (source)
  • This prayer must be truly said, and in very faith, and that men pray to God ordinately, discreetly, and devoutly; and always a man shall put his will to be subject to the will of God.†   (source)
  • So when they were so chosen by the assent of all the barons, so were there found in their sieges every knights' names that here are rehearsed, and so were they set in their sieges; whereof Sir Bagdemagus was wonderly wroth, that Sir Tor was advanced afore him, and therefore suddenly he departed from the court, and took his squire with him, and rode long in a forest till they came to a cross, and there alighted and said his prayers devoutly.†   (source)
  • And then he kneeled down and made his prayer devoutly unto Almighty Jesu, for he was one of the best knights of the world that at that time was, in whom the very faith stood most in.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Launcelot prayed Sir Urre to let him see his head; and then devoutly kneeling he ransacked the three wounds, that they bled a little, and forthwith all the wounds fair healed, and seemed as they had been whole a seven year.†   (source)
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  • "She's very devout," she whispered.†   (source)
  • My mother is very devout, and to start with she liked Fazlullah.†   (source)
  • Although she thought nuns were killjoys and she didn't follow all the Church's rules word for word—she treated the Ten Commandments more like the Ten Suggestions—Mom considered herself a devout Catholic and took us to mass most Sundays.†   (source)
  • Franz, a devout Christian, had spent most of his adult life in the army, stationed in Shanghai and Okinawa.†   (source)
  • At the city's founding, so long ago it had passed into legend, nine devout fathers were said to have offered up their own children, to be buried as holy guardians under its nine gates.†   (source)
  • Clouds rumbled across heaven and she lay beneath, and in the passage of shadow and yellow sunlight, the house murmured secrets to the truck, the traveler, who listened for only so long before its devout empiricism forced it away in wide-eyed panic to test such ideas among its fellows.†   (source)
  • I knew that he was a good man, a little quiet, a devout Christian from a very strict religious tradition.†   (source)
  • Rabbi, as you know, my family has not been the most devout.†   (source)
  • Wes is now a devout Muslim.†   (source)
  • A devout Hindu, all right, I can understand.†   (source)
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  • "Hardly the pastime of a devout Catholic," the judge had noted.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, Najibullah changed tactics and tried to portray himself as a devout Muslim.†   (source)
  • Being a devout Baptist, Emma never drank.†   (source)
  • You would have thought she had handed him a live armadillo; his little face reflected his devout curiosity and his extreme anxiety.†   (source)
  • He was a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live his life in accordance with Muslim law.†   (source)
  • Another woman was a devout Catholic who walked four miles with her three children to the local town for mass on Sunday.†   (source)
  • Martinez is a devout Catholic.†   (source)
  • Why is she making me act so religious and devout?†   (source)
  • The KP people, Lydia and Johan, gazed hack at him stony-eyed; both were devout communists.†   (source)
  • Nathan was changed, I could see, but he only seemed more devout, and it was hard to name the ruin in that.†   (source)
  • I still had my rifle and I was not alone, and neither was Danny, a devout Roman Catholic.†   (source)
  • Mudgett's parents were devout Methodists whose response to even routine misbehavior relied heavily on the rod and prayer, followed by banishment to the attic and a day with neither speech nor food.†   (source)
  • Allegories have one mission to accomplish—convey a certain message, in this case, the quest of the devout Christian to reach heaven.†   (source)
  • And both of us Catholic, your mother a devout Catholic who never misses mass on Sunday or on holydays.†   (source)
  • Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament that had been presented to him by his father, who taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.†   (source)
  • Though his siblings worshiped in a variety of ways, Zeitoun was perhaps the most devout, missing none of his daily prayers.†   (source)
  • Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.†   (source)
  • Despite his best efforts and a devout faith in Christ, Harland Sanders admitted that it was still awfully hard "not to call a no-good, lazy, incompetent, dishonest s.o.b. by anything else but his rightful name."†   (source)
  • Yetta knew it wouldn't be long before devout Jews—her father, Rahel's husband—would begin the havdalah prayers, dividing the sacredness of the Sabbath from ordinary, everyday life.†   (source)
  • Watching children sleep makes me feel devout, part of a spiritual system.†   (source)
  • put cologne on a wad of cotton wool and with a devout and gently challenging air, dabbed it on Sophie Mol's forehead.†   (source)
  • Being a devout Catholic, Hosenfeld even sometimes went to church with his new friends, wearing his Wehrmacht uniform and attending the ordinary Polish service.†   (source)
  • One night, while visiting classmate Daniel Spurlock in his Upper East Side apartment, Nathaniel began asking Spurlock and his fiancée probing questions about their devout Christianity.†   (source)
  • Never one to go into anything half-heartedly, she immediately became active and has remained a devout church member.†   (source)
  • I sat cross-legged on one of the beds and tried to look devout and impassive like some businessmen I once saw watching an Algerian belly dancer, but as soon as I leaned back against the wall under the stuffed rabbit, the bed started to roll out into the room, so I sat down on a bearskin on the floor and leaned back against the bed instead.†   (source)
  • Saeed was more melancholic than he had been before, understandably, and also more quiet and devout.†   (source)
  • The captain was twenty-nine years old, a devout Baptist from Alabama.†   (source)
  • A combination of Baptists, Methodists, and Roman Catholics would account for eighty percent of the county's devout, yet among the elite-the businessmen, bankers, lawyers, physicians, and more prominent ranchers who tenant the top drawer-Presbyterians and Episcopalians predominate.†   (source)
  • The more devout Iranian women allowed only a single eye to poke through.†   (source)
  • For Madame Belet was devout and had never been to Rome, and it was her great hope to see the Holy City before she died.†   (source)
  • He was a devout Christian, comfortable with telling people that he had been saved.†   (source)
  • She was also a devout Catholic, something of an oddity in Wilmington at the time.†   (source)
  • The economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and devout critic of George W. Bush, bemoaned this fact as the President's reelection campaign got under way in early 2004: "The approved story line about Mr. Bush is that he's a bluff, honest, plainspoken guy, and anecdotes that fit that story get reported.†   (source)
  • More amused than devout, they let themselves be led to the altar rail where Father Antonio Isabel made the sign of the cross in ashes on them.†   (source)
  • I learned that she was a world traveler, a classic eco-peacenik intellectual, a fitness fanatic and yoga expert, and a devout Buddhist possessed of a wry sense of humor, all incredibly welcome attributes to encounter in a fellow prisoner.†   (source)
  • The way devout people talked about their gods.†   (source)
  • A devout Christian.†   (source)
  • "Adam's devout Christian faith matched his toughness and fearlessness.†   (source)
  • He hadn't known that the driver, who'd seemed so anxious to be on his way, was devout enough to stop for evening prayer.†   (source)
  • It was his mother, Nancy, a devout Presbyterian, who read to him from the Bible when he was a youngster.†   (source)
  • He was a devout man whose pulpit was everywhere.†   (source)
  • As devout as she was, she was a woman first and gave birth to sons and daughters.†   (source)
  • My mother was a devout Catholic, and so she saw the salvation of the soul rooted in the Holy Mother Church, and she said the world would be saved if the people turned to the earth.†   (source)
  • Most wore the same simple, bright-colored skirting the head priest did, though only very small children and the very devout had much in the way of markings, and only a few wore gloves.†   (source)
  • 320 She is good and patient, and devout, so that she is never alone, like you and me.†   (source)
  • Also, the man listed as head of Radio Moscow and accused of just about everything short of having intercourse with dogs, died eleven months ago and was a known closet orthodox Catholic, who would have been far happier as a truly devout priest.†   (source)
  • As his family and friends knew, Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.†   (source)
  • Devout Mormon.†   (source)
  • Seven of the Most Devout attended him, shimmering in cloth-of-silver.†   (source)
  • She's just a devout and troubled soul.†   (source)
  • He was a Democrat, a Baptist, and a devout Confederate veteran.†   (source)
  • Jamous had been sent to escort these devout followers of Elyon to the annual Gathering when a patrol had run into the Horde army.†   (source)
  • I required always the hostility of the announced enemy, the devout and certified adversary.†   (source)
  • He was a devout Congregationalist and rented a front pew at the great church on New Haven's green for himself and his family.†   (source)
  • We were all devout to a degree, but we almost never talked about religion.†   (source)
  • She is a devout Catholic and prays "the blessing of God upon me, as I do in all my actions."†   (source)
  • Eve gave one particularly devout-looking supplicant a few tokens and was rewarded with a beatific smile and a glossy pebble.†   (source)
  • Ziad was more politically active than Leila, and more religiously devout.†   (source)
  • He happens to be a very devout Catholic psychoanalyst, and I thought it might be better than sitting around and watching that child—†   (source)
  • Later on, Tayo wondered if she liked it that way, going to church by herself, where she could show the people that she was a devout Christian and not immoral or pagan like the rest of the family.†   (source)
  • When he left to cruise the country in his schoolbus, 250 devout students crammed into thirty schoolbuses and painted vans and said that if he was going to tour the country, so were they!†   (source)
  • They were both very religious Catholics, so I was brought up very devout and went to Mass always and church school, but I don't mean I was, you know, fanatic, nut.†   (source)
  • John studied the label with the devout attention a good Christian might give to the holy sacrament.†   (source)
  • Her mother was a devout Irish Catholic, awed by the priests, a faithful attendant at Mass, eating the fish every Friday, quick to distinguish evil from good.†   (source)
  • I looked at that devout woman, sheltered behind her wall, and saw how petty her concern with the brass vases was.†   (source)
  • It was true (as Benson would later learn) that Nuper was a distributor of pamphlets, an organizer, a devout radical--a Communist, in fact--willing to lend his talents to any cause he believed to be worthy--and whatever one might finally think of him, he had his most definite, most righteous beliefs.†   (source)
  • He was a good man, this father, a good, kind, soft man, perhaps a very devout man, perhaps a saint, all these there no attributes which could win the boy over.†   (source)
  • Even the most devout generally made a detour rather than pass between the two shrines; and after dark their section of the courtyard was always the abode of silence and stillness, being untroubled by late worshipers.†   (source)
  • "Here is a marvel indeed," they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch.†   (source)
  • They loved her for being so devout.†   (source)
  • Old Solomon was far away in his sleep, his face looked small, relentless, and devout, as if he were walking somewhere where she could imagine the snow falling.†   (source)
  • You can't hear the voices from outside; only a murmur, a hum, like a devout crowd, on its knees.†   (source)
  • His Holiness was as devout a man as ever lived!†   (source)
  • At a particularly devout praying mantis.†   (source)
  • She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right.†   (source)
  • And I assume devout Christians send you hate mail on a daily basis?†   (source)
  • Yuko had been as devout a Christian as walked the Earth—and Kameko was even more so.†   (source)
  • She had a history of being devout in her victimhood.†   (source)
  • He was a devout Catholic, and Gabby often found him praying the rosary by his wife's bedside.†   (source)
  • I did not dream my little friend was so devout.†   (source)
  • Like her parents, Jane was devout in her beliefs, and it was she who started bringing me to church.†   (source)
  • I don't care if he's a very devout Buddhist veterinarian.†   (source)
  • "I want them to all become God-fearing, devout Christian gentlemen," Tappan said.†   (source)
  • That tale she had from Justin Massey, who was less devout than most.†   (source)
  • "He made a show of being a devout Muslim," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • It's just that I'm a very devout person, and I like to call all men of God Father.†   (source)
  • It showed a man in his early thirties with cropped dark hair and the wispy beard of a devout Muslim.†   (source)
  • I have friends among the Most Devout as well, and they speak of Septon 011idor.†   (source)
  • This was academic, for the devout Nasserine and Mammal were conscientious too.†   (source)
  • His head was bowed, his eyes closed, and he looked so devout that no one could doubt his sincerity.†   (source)
  • A devout man, he never looked at me when he spoke.†   (source)
  • His mother was a devout Muslim who believed that only Islam could save her troubled son.†   (source)
  • When the devout had filed out, the Great Sept grew still once more.†   (source)
  • As a rule the Most Devout elevate one of their own, but there have been exceptions.†   (source)
  • The High Septon surrendered his scrub brush to one of the Most Devout.†   (source)
  • Something suitably devout and drab for the High Septon.†   (source)
  • Not an hour's exercise had he taken in his life, this devout man of the South.†   (source)
  • You want me to become like you, just as devout, just as soft, just as wise!†   (source)
  • Katherine had read that even nowadays devout Indians drew special three-by-three magic squares called the Kubera Kolam on their pooja altars.†   (source)
  • * Even though Rob was the Devout Buddhists believe in sonam-an accounting of righteous deeds that, when large enough, enables one to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and transcend forever this world of pain and suffering, expedition leader, Ang Dorje would see it as his responsibility to ensure the safety of Rob and Doug Hansen and the others.†   (source)
  • And he was also a devout Catholic.†   (source)
  • We were to meet not just one wise man but all three, and not one after another but at the same time, and each would decide upon seeing us that right then was the golden occasion to meet that Pondicherry notable, the zoo director, he of the model devout son.†   (source)
  • Leah has come down with a devout interest in the French and Kikongo languages—specifically, in learning them from Anatole.†   (source)
  • Both his grandmothers were devout Roman Catholics, and his family went to church and he went through the rites of first communion and confirmation, even serving as an altar boy for a time, but he didn't feel engaged.†   (source)
  • The hard-working young reporter rescued Louise Nolan from her grief and they were eventually married in St. Joseph's Church, Adam's mother having been a devout Catholic all her life—religion, in fact, had always sustained her through bad periods, particularly after her father died.†   (source)
  • She'd assumed that Muslims were a monolithic group, and that all Muslims were made of the same devout and unbending stock.†   (source)
  • They were devout Catholics, caring fathers to their children, and deeply dedicated members of the community.†   (source)
  • With no more to say between a devout farm girl and a mine sweeper, we folded our sheets and our different-colored habits.†   (source)
  • There were passive Muslims, uncertain Muslims, borderline agnostic Muslims, devout Muslims, and Muslims who twisted the words of the Qur'an to suit their temporary desires and agendas.†   (source)
  • My friends who are devout Christians definitely believe that Christ literally walked on water, literally turned water into wine, and was born of a literal virgin birth.†   (source)
  • The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei is a deeply devout Catholic sect that has been the topic of recent controversy due to reports of brainwashing, coercion, and a dangerous practice known as "corporal mortification."†   (source)
  • When did you grow so devout?†   (source)
  • Even though he didn't particularly like Gramps—Gramps was a devout Southern Baptist who went to church every Sunday and thought that drinking and dancing were sins, which always struck Clayton as ridiculous—he knew what Gramps expected of him, and let's just say that taking nudie pictures of coeds was not on the "to do" list.†   (source)
  • Adams had come to believe that Dickinson's real struggle was with his mother and his wife, both devout Quakers who bedeviled him with their pacifist views.†   (source)
  • Have you seen anybody else so devout, anybody else that prays so hard, anybody else so filled with yearning?†   (source)
  • Have you gone devout on me, smuggler?†   (source)
  • His academic accomplishment was rare for a Balti, and he was known and respected throughout Skardu as a devout Shiite scholar.†   (source)
  • There they hung, three live men and one dead one, as the Lord of Light's devout stacked split logs and broken branches under their feet, then doused the piles with lamp oil.†   (source)
  • He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.†   (source)
  • In the lamplight, Mortenson saw the man's eyes were fiercely blue, and rimmed with surma, the black pigment worn by the most devout, some would say fanatical, graduates of the fundamentalist madrassas.†   (source)
  • Normally I did not bother to cover my head in the privacy of the house, but some of the visitors were apparently more devout than others.†   (source)
  • They might do whatever they wished to him, he realized; these brutal men might beat him to death right there in the basement, and no one would intervene to save him, no one, perhaps, but the devout and sympathetic major with the sharp face, who set a water tap dripping loudly into a sink and returned to the table to lay a length of heavy rubber hose down beside the brass knuckles.†   (source)
  • Subject one, a devout nonsmoker, had requested permission to leave the room to get some fresh air, but subject two had denied it.†   (source)
  • "In the afternoon, Mortenson changed some money and hired another jeep from a devout father and son who agreed to make the two-hour trip to Khan's headquarters in Baharak, as long as Mortenson was prepared to leave immediately, so they could arrive in time for evening prayer.†   (source)
  • Much more devout than Essey, she remained fully covered in a chad or even in the privacy of her home.†   (source)
  • But a life-sized portrait of cricket hero Imran Khan on the tailgate, holding a bat aloft like a scepter, was a form of idol worship that provoked such acute national pride that few Pakistanis, even the most devout, could take offense.†   (source)
  • The Most Devout must have been mad as well, to elevate this creature …. mad, or terrified of the beggars at their doors.†   (source)
  • I am more devout than even you, Aeron.†   (source)
  • Last night he feted thirty of the Most Devout on suckling pig and Arbor gold, and by day he hands out hardbread to the poor to prove his piety.†   (source)
  • "Septon Raynard and Septon Torbert are of the Most Devout," Cersei said, "and will be furious to learn that you obstructed me.†   (source)
  • None of the devout paid Jaime any mind.†   (source)
  • Cersei did not doubt that there were any number of boys who would do more honor to the crystal crown than the wretch on whom the Most Devout had chosen to bestow it.†   (source)
  • Some were clad in the cloth-of-silver vestments and crystal coronals that marked the Most Devout; their humbler brethren wore their crystals on thongs about their necks and cinched white robes with seven-stranded belts, each plait a different color.†   (source)
  • They sang their songs and prayed their prayers and wrinkled up their noses, and one of the Most Devout grew so faint he had to be helped from the sept. Shortly after, a flock of novices came swinging censers, and the air grew so thick with incense that the bier seemed cloaked in smoke.†   (source)
  • "You know, it's really strange, Sophie," I put in, "I remember a few weeks ago how you were telling me about your devout childhood, and your belief, and all that.†   (source)
  • People look at it now, with their incredible modern arrogance, and they ask precisely the wrong questions, look precisely in the wrong direction, and when astrology gives them no answers they scorn it, mock it for childish superstition, and, worst of all, foist it off on the stupidest people in the culture, the devout of the drugstores-old ladies, gamblers, uneducated halfwit housewives thirsting for adventure.†   (source)
  • A simple soul, utterly devout, practically illiterate, Lotte seemed to weather the unholy winds of Auschwitz like a crude, sturdy ship, serene in her terrible faith.†   (source)
  • He worshipped the memory of Bakunin and was a complete atheist, which was a little strange too, because at that time I was still a very devout Catholic girl and I sometimes wondered how I could fall in love with this young man who don't believe in God.†   (source)
  • I'm a devout Catholic."†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Berrendo was a very devout Catholic.†   (source)
  • The women are all devout-a good thing perhaps.†   (source)
  • It must not, however, be assumed that in normal times the townsfolk of Oran are particularly devout.†   (source)
  • His trouble is he was brought up a devout believer in the Movement and now he's lost his faith.†   (source)
  • And the Mexicans, a naturally devout people.†   (source)
  • And if you ever become devout pray for me if I am dead.†   (source)
  • The great fantasy of Christmas still kept him devout.†   (source)
  • I had expected to become more devout as I grow older but somehow I haven't," he said.†   (source)
  • His service was so devout, so extravagant that even Helen grew annoyed and occasionally jealous.†   (source)
  • This man Blanquet was a man of extreme seriousness and furthermore very devout.†   (source)
  • I have lived among Americans in the north for ten years, and I found many devout Catholics.†   (source)
  • He loved his cathedral; he loved his duties; he was very devout.†   (source)
  • The building was clean and in good repair, the congregation large and devout.†   (source)
  • I had expected to become devout myself but it has not come.†   (source)
  • There had been much whispering among the devout women of the parish about her pitiful case.†   (source)
  • But for all that, our native priests are more devout than your French Jesuits.†   (source)
  • The church is strong, the people are devout.†   (source)
  • Our people are the most devout left in the world.†   (source)
  • Contrariwise let the reflection "My feelings are now growing more devout, or more charitable" so fix his attention inward that he no longer looks beyond himself to see our Enemy or his own neighbours.†   (source)
  • ] [Laura stands in the middle of the room with lifted arms while Amanda crouches before her, adjusting the hem of a new dress, devout and ritualistic.†   (source)
  • For the sisters, with the exception of my grandmother who was devout and spiritual, were worldly in the thoroughgoing Victorian way.†   (source)
  • My mother, I think, was devout.†   (source)
  • And devout as she or more perhaps-†   (source)
  • After some moments of horror, in which his being a devout believer had its part, he would return to the room and go about his duties with bent head.†   (source)
  • In these dilemmas the devout consult those violet-sashed and sensual-looking gentry who are trooping past me.†   (source)
  • Perhaps there was pity in her love; certainly there was devout admiration for his mind; and so she spanned the two marriages with the two different men; and emerged from that corridor of the eight silent years to live fifteen years more; to bear four children; and [to] die early on the morning of the 5th of May 1895.†   (source)
  • "I don't pretend to be a very devout man," he said, "nor much of a theologian, but I know it's a bad plan to have two religions in one house.†   (source)
  • He's the cutest thing," said the ladies, who were charmed by his stutter, his wit, his good nature, his devout attendance on them.†   (source)
  • Everyone will know about his drinking; he'll disappear for two or three days every month or so, and they'll all nod and smile and say in their various accents, "Old Sebastian's on the spree again," and then he'll come back disheveled and shamefaced and be more devout for a day or two in the chapel.†   (source)
  • "I might become very devout," I said.†   (source)
  • He was devout in his desire to be a good man; he would bestow the accolade of his love upon nothing but a Virgin; he would marry himself to none but a Pure Woman.†   (source)
  • He was in an agony of repentance and guilty abasement: he framed a long plea for pardon and included it in his prayers at night, for he still prayed, not from devout belief, but from the superstition of habit and number, muttering a set formula over sixteen times, while he held his breath.†   (source)
  • I had always expected to become devout.†   (source)
  • All my family died very devout.†   (source)
  • After she was found and sent back to some relatives living in Arroyo Hondo, she was so devout that she wished to become a religious.†   (source)
  • The fickle Mexican population soon found as much diversion in being devout as they had once found in being scandalous.†   (source)
  • His wife was a good woman and very devout; but religion had seemed to him pretty much a woman's affair until his last trip to California.†   (source)
  • They had been carved by some devout soul, and brightly painted, though the colours had softened with time, and they were dressed in cloth, like dolls.†   (source)
  • He's a very devout fellow, Trinidad.†   (source)
  • Olivares's wife, Doña Isabella, was a devout Catholic, and at their house the French priests were always welcome and were most cordially entertained.†   (source)
  • He was trying to forge a new Will in that devout and exhausted priest; and the time was short, for the diligence for Paris was already rumbling down the mountain gorge.†   (source)
  • … When that devout nun, Mother Superior Philomène, died at a great age in her native Riom, among her papers were found several letters from Archbishop Latour, one dated December 1888, only a few months before his death.†   (source)
  • Her sense of duty is so devout, so perfect, so— TANNER.†   (source)
  • Yes, yes; Mercy is good and devout, I know.†   (source)
  • Philip, his restless mind avid for new things, became very devout.†   (source)
  • — Attacking the sham nobles, sham devout, Sham brave,—the thieving authors,—all the world!†   (source)
  • "Thanks be to goodness for that," breathed Marilla in devout relief.†   (source)
  • I really do like it for people to be a little more devout once in a while.†   (source)
  • The face was eyeless and sour-favoured and devout, shot with pink tinges of suffocated anger.†   (source)
  • He woke early and thought contentedly of the day; he hurried to his work, devout, unseeing.†   (source)
  • Who, then, was actually free, who was devout?†   (source)
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