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  • Half a dozen boys carried it down the beach, while he rode on the back of another, his arms around the black's neck, one hand clutching a prayer-book.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • He ceased as the murderer drew a prayer-book from his pocket.

    WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

  • He had even carried his prayer-book to the ringside.

    The Night-Born 2010

  • West came for'ard, prayer-book in hand, read the brief service for burial at sea, and returned immediately aft.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • "Anybody got a prayer-book on board, do you think?" he said.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Then, in a level voice, he began to read from Mitcheson's prayer-book.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • The prayer-book stream includes the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran has a liturgy format for all their churches.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Alex Tang 2010

  • Presbyterian Dudley Weaver placed the Reformed/Presbyterian worship service between the “prayer-book liturgical tradition” groups of churches, where liturgy was strictly followed, and the “free-church tradition”, where there were no prescribed liturgical rulesi 2002, 30.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Alex Tang 2010

  • Cadfael had seen her before, blithely following the empress to Mass that morning, bearing the imperial prayer-book and a fine wool shawl in case the lady felt the cold in this vast stony cavern before service ended.

    A River So Long 2010

  • The language of the tkhines (known from the seventeenth century on as “tkhine-loshn”) is relatively fixed, rather like an increasingly archaic “prayer-book English,” and displays few of the distinctive linguistic features of the developing Eastern European varieties of Yiddish; thus, linguistic analysis is of little help in determining place of composition.

    Tkhines. 2009

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