breviary

He had a worn leather breviary stuffed with prayers and Mass cards he’d been collecting for years, and he read through them all at the dining-room table every night during the 11 o’clock news.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2020

F.L.N. technicians have drawn up a "breviary of errors" made in the name of land reform in other emergent countries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Study the World Almanac: it is to be your breviary for a while .

From Time Magazine Archive

At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day.

From Time Magazine Archive

It might be feat a service is finishing, for light comes from fee doorway behind her, an organ is playing inside, and fee lady is holding a jeweled breviary.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her costly breviaries, embellished with strange illuminations, are prohibited under Lord Campbell’s Act. 

From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross

He showed me his own room, where he passed his time among breviaries, Hebrew Bibles, and the Waverley Novels.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

Pater-nosters forever, or eternal Misereres! forgetting that in Mardi, our breviaries oft fall from our hands.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

With slow steps they passed along the corridor and into the choir of the darkened church, which was lighted only by the scattered wax-lights of the brethren who were deciphering their manuscript breviaries.

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern