breviary

• Still she held the bag before her like a breviary, its leather flap back and dangling, as if the thing were now empty, useless and bereft of a valuable possession. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• When he reformed the breviary, the handbook of prayers to be recited each day by persons in holy orders, he did not hesitate to add his own original hymnal compositions in honor of the saints that he canonized. —  Galileo in Rome
• My green book was taken for a breviary, or for a book of hours, and my mouthings of Dolores or The Garden of Proserpine for “the blessed mutter of the Mass”! —  The Adventure of Living
• The will of St. Ives is framed and hung up in the church, and his breviary is also preserved here; but the guide said it was now kept at the priest’s house, as people were in the habit of taking away a leaf as a relic. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
• The dandy must be celibate, cloistral; is, indeed, but a monk with a mirror for beads and breviary--an anchorite, mortifying his soul that his body may be perfect. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story

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