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单词 sunday book
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Sunday book
Sunday book n. a book considered suitable for reading on Sundays, typically one providing moral or spiritual guidance or thought to be morally improving.
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1788 D. Simpson Sacred Lit. III. Pref. p. xxxvii The Compiler would, therefore, recommend, that a Collection..be published..for the use of schools, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and read along with the Heathen writers, at least as a Sunday Book.
1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude II. xxvii. 86 I tell you I have a Sunday-book; that which at present occupies with me the chief place next the Scriptures, is Klopstock's Messiah.
1855 Amy Carlton 89 ‘Miss Jones will..give out the Sunday books’..a number of histories of good people, Bible stories, parables, allegories, and other books of the same sort.
1962 ‘Bryher’ Heart to Artemis i. 27 I ran in unsuspectingly to face a large and realistic painting of the Crucifixion. It was not a bit like the illustrations in my Sunday book, The Peep of Day, but a mass of blood, contortion and terror.
2004 G. Avery in P. Hunt Internat. Compan. Encycl. Children's Lit. ii. xxxiv. 459 There was also between thirteen-year-old Ellen and her spiritual mentor..a romantic if not erotic relationship, never hitherto found in a Sunday book.
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