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Then seven or eight antiphonaries brought us back again to low prices.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole

In the Abbey library, among a waste of antiphonaries and homilies and monkish chronicles, were to be found texts of Livy and Lucretius and the letters of Cicero.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

Another bishop, R. de Maidstone, although "vir magnae literaturae, et in theologia nominatissimus," only seems to have given the church two antiphonaries, some psalters, and a Legenda.

From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert

Business had invaded the cloisters where, in place of antiphonaries, heavy ledgers reposed on reading-desks.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Altars, statues, pictures, antiphonaries, missals, graduals—all underwent a common fate.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn