This dreadful purpose, thus definitively and impiously settled, calmed Adam Hunter's rage; for he felt, as if by anticipation, that he was revenged.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Since her accident he had written to her several times, ardent, tender letters, recalling all he had said to her, recounting again his adoration of her for her nature, her soul, the essence of her, the woman in her, telling her that this terror which had come upon her only made her dearer to him, that-as she knew-he had impiously dared almost to long for it, as for an order of release that would take effect in the liberation of her true self.
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens
It is so wicked, so impiously wicked to wish for the death of a fellow creature.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell