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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

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

His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

Father Laberge removed his shoes, climbed into his upper berth, and began reading his breviary.

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

They had "eggs, bread, wine from the king's cellar, their breviaries, their night-gowns, a palliasse, and a mattress," brought to them there; and they were kept under ocular supervision for four and twenty hours.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black

Several improved breviaries and missals have since been printed at Rome.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson

"Yes, your breviaries," and the white-haired Abbot looked silently but sternly at the brothers.

From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland

Koberger’s printing-house contained twenty-four presses, and employed over a hundred men, printing not only Bibles and breviaries, but also chronicles, homilies, poems, and scientific works.

From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser