breviary

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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

It came on the day after Christmas, in 1948, when 16 political policemen armed with automatic rifles took him to their notorious Andrassy Street headquarters, stripped him of his breviary, rosary and religious habit.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

On the cover of the black volumes were the arms of the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice: the breviary was bought in 1956.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli