But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! Farewell, Thou pure impiety, and impious purity!. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). Much Ado About Nothing (Act IV, Scene I)]
impious toward one's parents. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Oh, that I could recall my impious labour, or suddenly extinguish the spark which I have so presumptuously bestowed. From Wordnik.com. [Act II] Reference
His primary target is the enemy without, the United States, not the enemy within, the "impious" Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel According to Osama Bin Laden] Reference
But it would be idle to deny that he had far more in common with the "impious" than with the orthodox. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference
Did not the brazen cymbals 'sound undo the impious ill!. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
Sometimes fiends whispered impious suggestions in his ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Mahomet had the impious effrontery to sanction it by special. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
And I hear that he says I am impious in abolishing sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
“What a set of impious scoundrels,” ejaculated the midshipman. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The prosperity of the impious has never passed to their descendants. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The Arians boasted that Arius had received his impious doctrine from. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Saturninus, the impious bishop of that city, in their party, in 353. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I was born in an impious century, and I have many crimes to expiate. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A horrible cry was heard from the tower, accompanied by an impious oath. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The danger was over and the last and most impious of the outlaws departed. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Is it impious to ask how these builders knew the solar year so completely?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
The custom of wearing long hair was deemed immodest, impious and abominable. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
In a country like this, the plea of necessity for crime is glaringly impious. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The issue was our children's safety, and so even clear thinking seemed impious. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Job For Parents, Not The Government] Reference
To assert so is not only scandalous to human nature, but impious towards the Creator. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
It was needed, to give the lie to that impious and infidel assumption of the South that. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His death happened in June, 444, and Dioscorus, the impious Eutychian, was his successor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
"Which is unwise," Jonas thought bitterly, "and risky, and very probably impious as well.". From Wordnik.com. [Wizard] Reference
Some have been destroyed, but most still remain as an awful example to impious Sabbath profaners. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.] Reference
From it the voice to the city is often a pious one, an impious one, and almost always a raucous one. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Many a David's noblest qualities would never have been developed but for the impious attempts of Saul. From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
On one occasion the question of firing at the clouds to bring down rain was discussed, and declared to be impious. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
All of them, drinking heavily to keep up their courage, died with the most impious gibes and curses on their lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Who, more than they, is skilled in that delving to the bottom of things, in that groping at once profound and impious?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He also that pursues after pleasures, as that which is truly good and flies from pains, as that which is truly evil: is impious. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
But the last labor he was to undertake in the region in which his hero strength -- so the impious king hoped -- would not accompany him. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
"I see it," said Pemptides, "and it is impious either to make the gods passions, or to do just the contrary, and make the passions gods.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
And he that pursueth after pleasures, will not spare, to compass his desires, to do that which is unjust, and that is manifestly impious. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
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