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very religious; or having enthusiastic support (for something)
- He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.Chapters 7-9 — The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (37% in)
- Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.Chapters 82-84 — The Honour and Glory of Whaling; Jonah Historically Regarded; Pitchpoling (69% in)
- 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.Chapters 85-87 — The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (28% in)
- As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.Chapters 85-87 — The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (39% in)
- 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.Chapters 88-90 — Schools and Schoolmasters; Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish; Heads or Tails (16% in)
- Among many other fine qualities, my royal friend Tranquo, being gifted with a devout love for all matters of barbaric vertu, had brought together in Pupella whatever rare things the more ingenious of his people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices, chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes; and all these distributed among whatever natural wonders, the wonder-freighted, tribute-rendering waves had cast upon his shores.Chapters 100-102 — The Pequod meets....; The Decanter; A Bower in the Arsacides (80% in)
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