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  • Breadfruit -, mango - and orange-trees grew in the tangled tall grass, and the garden where the priests had read their breviaries was a wilderness of tiger-lilies.
  • I now have quite a collection of different breviaries.
  • Whole shelves are bent under ranks of old missals, breviaries, and hymnals.
  • Catholic monks have services at set times every day, priests have their breviaries.
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