hymn-books

He preached before a packed barrack room and, although there were no hymn-books, the singing was enthusiastic.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Apparently there's a group called the Traditional Anglican Communion, with various parishes in Britain and the USA...it conjures up agreeable visions of dear tweed-jacketed clergymen with families of Trollopian fecundity, and wives slicing up Victoria sponge sandwiches in damp marquees at rainy summer fetes, and people singing from old-fashioned hymn-books at gentle Evesongs.

News that Traditional Anglicans... Joanna Bogle 2007

The website will go live on 14th January and will feature three bestselling hymn-books; Mission Praise, Junior Praise and Carol Praise and also has a chart of the top ten most popular songs.

Hymns on line Martyn Daniels 2007

The website will go live on 14th January and will feature three bestselling hymn-books; Mission Praise, Junior Praise and Carol Praise and also has a chart of the top ten most popular songs.

Archive 2007-12-01 Martyn Daniels 2007

Some of these compositions which now lie before me, with their repetitions of lines, half-lines, and half-words, their fugues and their intermediate symphonies, are good singing still, though they would hardly be admitted into such hymn-books as are popular in the churches of fashionable society at the present time.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

While the deacons were discussing the purchase of new pews or hymn-books with his father, he was coaxing kisses from their daughters in the choir room closet, where the robes were stored.

Ricochet Brown, Sandra 2006

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

Walden 2004

The other women took to their Bibles and hymn-books, and looked as sour as verjuice over their reading — a result, which I have observed, in my sphere of life, to follow generally on the performance of acts of piety at unaccustomed periods of the day.

The Moonstone 2003

So I attended morning and evening service, hollering hosannas and nodding stern approval while her drone of a husband sermonised about temptation and the snares that Satan spreads (about which he didn't know the first dam 'thing), and gallantly helping her to gather up the hymn-books afterwards.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

So I attended morning and evening service, hollering hosannas and nodding stern approval while her drone of a husband sermonised about temptation and the snares that Satan spreads (about which he didn't know the first dam 'thing), and gallantly helping her to gather up the hymn-books afterwards.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985