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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
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He ceased as the murderer drew a prayer-book from his pocket.
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He had even carried his prayer-book to the ringside.
The Night-Born 2010
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West came for'ard, prayer-book in hand, read the brief service for burial at sea, and returned immediately aft.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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"Anybody got a prayer-book on board, do you think?" he said.
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Then, in a level voice, he began to read from Mitcheson's prayer-book.
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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
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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
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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
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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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