breviary

Example Sentences

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For decades, many people of my generation have turned to her text-driven work as a breviary of cultural and political insight.

From Washington Post

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

But I was deeply engaged with most of the rest of this exhibition, especially the panels that come together as a personal and secular breviary of dying.

From Washington Post

In later years, he served as the librarian of Durham Cathedral and passed many happy months at the Vatican Library poring over its medieval English missals and breviaries.

From Washington Post

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 Literature