What is "god-fearing"

Usage examples of "god-fearing".

I believe the men who reach high places in politics are, as a rule, the best and brainiest men in the land, and upon their shoulders rest the safety and well-being of the peace-loving, God-fearing millions.

God-fearing Kivutian, who loves the Congo and wishes to remain a Congolese patriot under one decent and efficient government in Kinshasa if you wish to drive the Rwandan butchers and exploiters back across their borders one and all then kindly stay exactly where you are.

The story was of an old merchant who lived a good and God-fearing life with his family, and who went once to the Nizhni fair with a companion- a rich merchant.

My mother loved telling and retelling the legends of Godshome, explaining in a dozen different ways how it was both a city where god-fearing people of all races gathered to worship and a secluded vale where those whom the gods found worthy were given their direct blessing.

And returned to Wales and recruited colonists, and went back to the land on the far side of the Atlantic to found a settlement of God-fearing Welshmen in the New World and to convert the Aztecs and other heathen to Christianity.

Major Dobbins goes a lot farther back than I do, me being a young and vital God-fearing Christian gentleman in the very prime of life.

No big deal, according to Gov. Lawton Chiles and other God-fearing leaders.

God-fearing kid, to state that riders were clearly responsible for protecting townfolk, and to ask that rider how to stop hearing it.

She obeyed, as if she was fulfilling the decree of Heaven, I took her to a refuge impossible to discover, and placed her under the care of a God-fearing woman.

Though he and his posse of five God-fearing Charlestonians had several times come close to their quarry as they'd chased them north.

I'd like to believe that a God-fearing man such as Reverend Barnett would refuse to use such tactics, and I'm certainly not going to cast the first stone.

In the eyes of the law you're a deep-dyed criminal, Mr Comber -- and I, the junior Congressman from Illinois, a pillar of the community, a trusted legislator, a former holder of the United States commission, a God-fearing, respected citizen -- it's all there in my election address, and the people believed it, so it must be true -- I allowed myself, in a moment of derangement, moved by pity for that girl Cassy's distress -- I allowed myself, sir, to aid and abet you.

You've got Hoggie Dhoone and a whole line of Stone God-fearing Clan Kings to thank for that.

She was a God-fearing Christian before she got hooked up with you.

One God-fearing Christian woman in search of a gallon of low-fat milk pulled up outside.