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Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_ bring £2900 -- Henry VIII. 's own copy on vellum of a volume of Prayers, 1544, with MSS. notes by him and his family -- Lady Elizabeth Tirrwhyt's _Prayers_, 1574, bound in gold -- _Book of St. Alban's_, 1486, and _Chronicles of
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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She gave an excellent performance in Prayers for Bobby.
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Powell nevertheless continued, till Maldon came to certain English Prayers, and read aloud, Lord, have mercy upon us,
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Will you be diligent in Prayers -- laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?
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George Strahan attended Johnson on his death-bed, and published the volume called Prayers and Meditations composed by Samuel Johnson.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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They answered, No: For our Devotion and Worship consists onely in Prayers, which we frame according to our several Necessities, in Petitions, Humiliations, Thanksgiving, &c.
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668
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Maybe we should start connecting Obama and "Prayers" - pronounced like Ayers ..
Strickland Hits McCain Rallies, Vouches For Obama As "Strong Christian" 2009
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- three stacks of books on nightstand, rows of books beneath, more stacks on floor, including Perfume: The Story of a Murder, by Patrick Suskind, Annie Proulx's Close Range and Prayers from the Ark & The Creatures 'Choir by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
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- three stacks of books on nightstand, rows of books beneath, more stacks on floor, including Perfume: The Story of a Murder, by Patrick Suskind, Annie Proulx's Close Range and Prayers from the Ark & The Creatures 'Choir by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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- three stacks of books on nightstand, rows of books beneath, more stacks on floor, including Perfume: The Story of a Murder, by Patrick Suskind, Annie Proulx's Close Range and Prayers from the Ark & The Creatures 'Choir by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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