Word: devoutness
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...counter measure, three of the principal 'churches at Milan held "services of reparation" for the performance. Cardinal Eugenic Tosi delivered a sermon of warning against it. Finally processions marched from the various churches to La Scala. Kneeling just outside, the devout prayed. Within the great theatre a most curious state of affairs was remarked...
...imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray for the intervention of your government. . . . But I am too old; I have spent my life. . . . What is there left for me? I will retire into the convent in Barcelona. It has been a very sad thing...
...only audible accompaniment to the presentation of this story in which 900 actors take part are the hymns of the devout, the cries of the mob and the solemn swelling of religious music from the throbbing pipes of the organ...
...Haven, Conn., February 5.--Carlos F. Stoddard Jr., who retires this week as editor of the Yale Daily News, said today in the leading editorial of that newspaper that the French peasant is incomparably more devout and chast than the rank and file of Americans; that France is infinitely more civilized than we are; that Italy has created art which few of us are fit to look upon. Mr. Stoddard's editorial, signed by him, was entitled "One Last Shot", and was a final volley of the News at prohibition, which the News has consistently attacked during his administration...
...would perhaps be even more ludicrous to judge the Senate by the prayers it listens to than by the speeches delivered from its floor. As it is well known that the latter are often violent but hollow, so it has just been complained that the former, however devout, are puerile. Alonzo g. Anthony, a proofreader of Reading, Pennsylvania, writes in a letter to Senator Pepper, "The language used by Rev. J. J. Muir, Chaplain of the United States Senate, is like that of a third grade schoolboy...