Crossword-Solution: PRAYERBOOK 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

You must not scold, but I haven't opened a book, except my prayerbook, in six weeks--it is such a whirl.

You don't know what a terrible slander they have desecrated your prayerbook with." He ran out and was a long time gone.

While he prayed he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath from a thumb blackened prayerbook wherein catchwords were printed at the foot of every page.

The raw morning air whetted his resolute piety; and often as he knelt among the few worshippers at the sidealtar, following with his interleaved prayerbook the murmur of the priest, he glanced up for an instant towards the vested figure standing in the gloom between the two candles, which were the old and the new testaments, and imagined that he was kneeling at mass in the catacombs.

They lived chiefly in windowless, six-by-eight rooms, always a cheap, dirty calico curtain dividing the three-foot parlor in front from the five-foot bedroom behind, the former cluttered with a van-load of useless junk, dirty blankets, decrepit furniture, glittering gewgaws, a black baby squirming naked in a basket of rags with an Episcopal prayerbook under its pillow--relic of the old demon-scaring superstitions of Voodoo worship.