"Oh, that would have been most unfortunate!" broke in M. Magloire. "We are not only religious at Sauveterre, we are devout, my good colleague,--excessively devout."英文原著 · 《Within an Inch of His Life》
"Then," breathed Becky, devoutly, "I wouldn't mind HOW heavy the coal boxes was--or WHAT the cook done to me, if--if I might have that to think of."英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
He inspected his treasure. "I remember," said he, "my mother used to sing this one, 'When the Eye saw Her, then it blessed Her;' and parts of this one, 'Hear my Prayer;' and, let me see, she used to sing this psalm, 'Praise the Lord,' by Jackson. I am ashamed to say I used to ask for 'Praise the Lord Jackson,' meaning to be funny, not devout."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
My general view of half a century on the lecture platform brings to me precious and beautiful memories, and fills my soul with devout gratitude for the blessings and kindnesses which have been given to me so far beyond my deserts. So much more success has come to my hands than I ever expected; so much more of good have I found than even youth's wildest dream included; so much more effective have been my weakest endeavors than I ever planned or hoped-- that a biography written truthfully would be mostly an account of what men and women have done for me.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
How we looked for "R. S." at the end of an article, and how devout was our belief, how happy our pride, in the young one! About 1878, I think (I was now a slave of the quill myself), I received a brief note from Mr. Stevenson, introducing to me the person whom, in his essay on his old college magazine, he called "Glasgow Brown." What his real name was, whence he came, whence the money came, I never knew. was going to start a weekly Tory paper. Would I contribute? came to see me. Stevenson has described him, NOT as I would have described him: like Mr.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
THE next day was Sunday, and the church bells had little rest; indeed, I do not think I remember anywhere else so great a choice of services as were here offered to the devout. And while the bells made merry in the sunshine, all the world with his dog was out shooting among the beets and colza.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
That whatever your husband says, you are promising to raise your child as a devout jew?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》