Meanings (ES + gloss)
beato • piadoso • pío • religioso
Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.
Old Deacon Smith was quick to see the impression made by Abby Howard upon the mind of his son, and he was wonderfully pleased thereat, for Abby was the oldest daughter of the good…
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