| A doctrine very different from the Fable of the Bees, which impiously and foolishly supposes it to have that natural tendency. |
| His fate had begun to look dire in the finale of the second of three acts, when the statue refused to surrender a wedding ring he had impiously slipped on its finger. |
| They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. |
| God forbid that we should say impiously to Him, Why hast thou made me thus? |
| She impiously called on Heaven to strike her dead as she lay! |
| And so death is meted out to all those who rebel against Nature impiously, because they know the things that are. |
