The young members challenged their leader impiously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Rome has impiously traded upon this weakness of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
He impiously affirmed that there were two Gods; the one rigorous and severe, the author of the Old. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The like severity, no doubt, was used, if aught were impiously written against their esteemed gods. From Wordnik.com. [Areopagitica] Reference
Others may impiously ask if it is an evil, why did the Almighty permit it, or why does he tolerate it?. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
Not because the laws had been most impiously trampled down at noon-day by a conspiracy of thirty persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
In face of such facts, will any one impiously declare that fate, or blind chance, rules the affairs of men!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
It was alleged that by sorceries they obtained help from the devil; that they impiously used the ceremonies of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
Perhaps these very men a few hours before, were impiously invoking their own destruction, or venting imprecations upon their fellow beings!. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Ptolemy, came in the guise of friends: for all that they impiously plotted against him and by their act brought guilt upon themselves and all Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
Alexandria demurely leaning upon her spiked wheel, at a provincial antiquary's in Romagna, not far from where the ancona had been impiously dismembered. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
The facts we have now exhibited, abundantly prove the extreme cruelty and sinfulness of that prejudice against color which we are impiously told is an ORDINATION OF PROVIDENCE. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
And in the Clouds, Socrates is presented either as impiously searching out knowledge about the moon and clouds or else as teaching a de - structive and rather foolish sophistry. From Wordnik.com. [SENSE OF THE COMIC] Reference
Enthymesis of that AEon who fell into passion, then, first of all, they will act impiously against their Mother, by declaring her to be the first cause of evil and corruptible images. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Their object in this is to show that our Lord announced another Father than the Maker of this universe, whom, as we said before, they impiously declare to have been the fruit of a defect. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
With respect to pain, then, and pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, which the universal nature employs equally, whoever is not equally affected is manifestly acting impiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Meditations] Reference
Jupiter, whom he set over the affairs of mortals, to avenge the injuries which they should do to one another, and to inflict condign punishment on all those who should impiously offend against the gods. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
Page 174, Volume 1 leisure (confined moreover to convent cells), who sought impiously to reduce theology to a science and wrote commentaries far more obscure than the sacred texts they professed to interpret. From Wordnik.com. [BACONIANISM] Reference
Yet let some one of those, whom I have impiously ruined, destroy me. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference
By the use of the lofty buskin, they impiously strive to add a cubit to their stature. c. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
Revolutions in Spain, Portugal, and Naples sought impiously and with constitutions to bind the hands of their kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power] Reference
In another place (IX. 1) he says that "he who acts unjustly acts impiously," which follows of course from all that he says in various places. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
All the blood of Phineas boiled in the veins of his descendant; was the Lord of Hosts to be thus openly insulted, His judgments thus impiously defied!. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History] Reference
Finding them refractory, she declared her resolution to remain behind and maintain possession of the land which her countrymen should impiously abandon. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
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