The study, published in Poetics, analyzed 683 prayers written in a public prayer book placed in the rotunda of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore from 1999 to 2005.
The modern wording has continued to be used in the CofE's latest prayer book, Commons Worship, adopted in 2006.
Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her and clasping her hands upon it.
Bohemia: the groom gives the bride a rosary, a prayer book, a girdle with three keys (to guard her virtue), a fur cap, and a silver wedding ring.
Groups of followers may be seen kneeling in a side room while they read from prayer books.
The parish bookstore offers Chinese- and English-language Gospels, prayer books, self-help books and Holy Land tour guides.
She may be seen walking to covent garden church, with a starved foot-boy behind carrying her prayer book.
If I move a finger or relax a muscle of my face, Miss Murdstone pokes me with her prayer book, and makes my side ache.
A train passenger traveling from Baghdad to Karbala, a Shiite holy city some 60 miles south of the capital, reads a prayer book.
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