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He had a worn leather breviary stuffed with prayers and Mass cards he’d been collecting for years, and he read through them all at the dining-room table every night during the 11 o’clock news.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
It came on the day after Christmas, in 1948, when 16 political policemen armed with automatic rifles took him to their notorious Andrassy Street headquarters, stripped him of his breviary, rosary and religious habit.
From Time Magazine Archive
I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible .
From Time Magazine Archive
At 1 he lunches in his upstairs apartment, at 1:30 he reads his breviary.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her costly breviaries, embellished with strange illuminations, are prohibited under Lord Campbell’s Act.
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
But their talents lie totally within the binding of their breviaries.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
It had a great loss in being deprived of Archbishop Sheldon's admirable collection of missals, breviaries, primers, etc., relating to the service of the Church, as also Archbishop Sancroft's.'
From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton
In the orchards and gardens, where the monks used to recite their breviaries, Hunnic arms now glistened for the first time.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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