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  • But compared with other Protestant rites in eastern North Carolina, they were papist—processions, candles, vestments, rote responses and book-read prayers followed by short dry sermons.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • But compared with other Protestant rites in eastern North Carolina, they were papist—processions, candles, vestments, rote responses and book-read prayers followed by short dry sermons.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • He was about twenty-two, but not one of those book-read sportsmen of that age, confident in clothes and manner, easy travellers and debonair; that is to say, Noble was not of the worldly type twenty-two.

    Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

  • If we're left plumb alone with a band of them book-read shorthorns like I deescribes, you-all sees yourse'f, they're bound to go spraddlin 'East ag'in, an' report how darkened

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Yet of the more important product before him, after the manner of book-read men, he knew nothing.

    The Story of a Mine Bret Harte 1869

  • He was no comfortable, book-read, second-hand Christian, who had an answer ready for every trouble, because he had never had any real trouble at all.

    The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847

  • He was no comfortable, book-read, second-hand Christian, who had an answer ready for every trouble, because he had never had any real trouble at all.

    The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847

  • He was no comfortable, book-read, second-hand Christian, who had an answer ready for every trouble, because he had never had any real trouble at all.

    The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847

  • "If you will access the book-read menu, you will find in the Farmer's Encyclopedia relevant explanatory text from Old Earth.

    Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

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