The first step in the evolution of the breviary was the separation of the Psalter into a choir-book. From LearnThat.org. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Breviary]
And this is the evening prayer of that, what we call the breviary, or the divine office. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2008] Reference
The Roman Martyrology, like the breviary, is a liturgical book proper. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Empire, the Early Christian Martyrs and a Thought about the Martyrology] Reference
Sirrah, page, bring me here my drawer (for so he called his breviary); stay. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
Sirrah, page, bring me here my drawer (for so he called his breviary); stay a little here; haul, friend, thus. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
The most radical breviary of scepticism since Montaigne. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
St. Julian of Mans had an office in the Sarum breviary. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He had every reason to frown as he looked at his breviary. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
A old Beguine was reading her breviary in an adjoining room. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
"There are tales of saints in my breviary," soliloquized Mary of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Perhaps the monks who sold the box had kept their breviary in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
Father Conmee drew off his gloves and took his rededged breviary out. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Father Conmee blessed both gravely and turned a thin page of his breviary. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Friar Tuck laid down the quarter-staff, if he has not taken up the breviary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
In the Roman breviary his office is celebrated on the fourteenth of January. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
About this time he procured a breviary and kept it in his desk under the loose papers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Take our rule with you, and a breviary, in order that you may be punctual in saying the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi] Reference
When they were apart, the breviary went back and forth between them by trusted messenger. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
For in the ancient breviary of Nantes, and most others, he is honored on the 12th of March. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
She had read that priests carried a breviary and were required to recite from its prayers daily. From Wordnik.com. [s Confession] Reference
He was reading from his breviary in his little garden planted with fruit trees when she arrived. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie] Reference
“I mean my tragedy to be the breviary of peoples and kings,” he proudly informed his sister. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
He resumed his breviary, and I remained silently musing upon all that had passed within the last hour. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
At the close of his harangue he took out his breviary, and translated a prayer into the unknown tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
breviary -- Divine office, its origin -- performed by the early Christians -- ancient and modern editions of the breviary. From Wordnik.com. [The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome] Reference
She is the same who is commemorated on the 12th of July, in the ancient breviary of Toledo; and in the Roman, and some other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
They had also drinking vessels bound to resemble the breviary, and were found drinking, when it was supposed they were at prayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827] Reference
Another, old and heavy, and panting, hurried in; and through the cloister-door, Monsieur le Curé, breviary in hand, prayed watchfully. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
I didn't hear the car, for the road was muddy, I suppose; but I straightened myself up in my arm-chair, and drew my breviary towards me. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Her name occurs on this day in the ancient breviary of Autun, and in the martyrologies of Rabanus, Usuard, and Notker: also in the Roman. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
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