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    In the medieval Catholic Church, the church's liturgy in Latin and the church's ritual prayers had been the backbone of the religious service.†  (source)
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    She brushed Mama Elena's hair until it was thoroughly dry, braided it, and that completed the liturgy.†  (source)
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    She might as well have been speaking Latin, but that's okay, since this customer is farniliar with the liturgy and signs and numbers it before the words are fully spoken.†  (source)
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    Surely the light of God's word and grace is available to those outside the Church of England, and through more direct means than the Liturgy.†  (source)
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    The liturgical chant had given way to a burst of inappropriately festive orchestration.†  (source)
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    None but church-goers seemed abroad that morning; undergraduates and graduates and wives and tradespeople, walking with that unmistakable English church-going pace which eschewed equally both haste and idle sauntering; holding, bound in black lamb-skin and white celluloid, the liturgies of half a dozen conflicting sects; on their way to St. Barnabas, St. Columba, St. Aloysius, St. Mary's, Pusey House, Blackfriars, and heaven knows where besides; to restored Norman and revived Gothic, to travesties of Venice and Athens; all in the summer sunshine going to the temples of their race.†  (source)
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    Three voices chanting liturgically, a priest reciting the same line over and over and two altar boys delivering fixed responses.†  (source)
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    The liturgy also uses it in its later Russian connotation of lust' and Vice.'†  (source)
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    Nelson came home once and asked me what the words meant, assuming they were liturgical.†  (source)
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    This assembly of station wagons, as much as anything they might do in the course of the year, more than formal liturgies or laws, tells the parents they are a collection of the like-minded and the spiritually akin, a people, a nation.†  (source)
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    In his effort to find a shorter route, the coachman braved the rough cobblestones of the colonial city and had to stop often to keep the horse from being frightened by the rowdiness of the religious societies and fraternities coming back from the Pentecost liturgy.†  (source)
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    The most common example is the Hymn to Water, a direct copy from the Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual, calling for rain clouds which Arrakis had never seen.†  (source)
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    Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo in our little bedroom—for it seemed that it was some sort of Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with Queequeg and Yojo that day; HOW it was I never could find out, for, though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX Articles—leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings, I sallied out among the shipping.†  (source)
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