(Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders

Usage examples of breviary.

Tall, thin, and dark, Agaric used to walk in deep thought, with his breviary in his hand and his brow loaded with care, through the corridors of the school and the alleys of the garden.

It was a nice breviary for a cardinal, but would to God they had nothing worse!

I have also never said that he neglected the reading of his breviary, because that would be contrary to the truth, seeing that on several occasions he borrowed mine and read his hours in it.

He had instantly washed her arm in holy water and repeated some prayers, and while he was saying them the breviary of the superior was twice dragged from her hands and thrown at his feet, and when he stooped to pick it up for the second time he got a box on the ear without being able to see the hand that administered it.

Fearing, however, to make use of any valuable piece of paper, I hesitated for a moment, then recollected that I had seen in the famous breviary, which was on the table beside me, an old paper quite yellow with age, and which had served as a marker for centuries, kept there by the request of the heirs.

Blacktooth rarely needed more than twenty minutes to finish his breviary, and the rest of the time he gave to Jesus and Mary.

When you leave us, you will take your breviary, your beads, your toilet articles, sandals, and a blanket, but you will exchange your habit for that of a novice.

Blacktooth prayed to Saint Leibowitz, and tried to keep up with his breviary, but could not pray well in the midst of havoc, as Abbot Jarad seemed able to do.

Blacktooth left the abbey the next morning with the gifts of a blanket and breviary, a canteen and a loaf of bread.

They are dying out day by day in such manner that I fear greatly to see these illustrious fragments of the ancient breviary spat upon, staled upon, set at naught, dishonoured, and blamed, the which I should be loath to see, since I have and bear great respect for the refuse of our Gallic antiquities.

And in the evening, after prayers, he would practice speaking to them, teaching himself the breviary of love.

Poissy, the expansions of the nerves, and hidden doctrines of the breviary, the which much delighted the king.

The priest, in the presbytery, was walking up and down, reading his breviary, but the chief-inspector had the impression that he kept darting anxious glances at the two men.

Staring at the floor and the black wing-tipped shoes, glowing under ages of wax, her eyes moved up the black worsted trousers shining at the knees, to the breviary held under the same arm as the straw hat, and up to the face.

He reached down to the bench and picked up his breviary and straw hat, but did not leave.