'You were ever the leader in those pious exercises,' I remarked drily.

Methinks our pious exercises have brought the enemy upon us.

Yesterday I undertook to employ that cord which you see hanging against the wall, but pain prevented my continuing the pious exercise.

From time to time, gentle Camilla reproached herself with heartlessness and as often as she attempted this pious exercise the memory of Ralph's kisses made nonsense of her scruples.

The pious exercise of the Stations of the Cross.

While the old woman was eating, the princess put several questions to her as to her mode of life, and the pious exercises she practiced, and then inquired what she thought of the house now that she had seen it.

It was written as a pious exercise, and as such, presaged a school of religious soul-searching in diary form that continued into the 18th century.

It is a document written as a pious exercise, and its discipline and restraint spring from that.

Devotions are prayers or pious exercises used to demonstrate reverence for a particular aspect of God or the person of Jesus, or for a particular saint.

I assisted at all the pious exercises of the place.