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Little Office

noun

A Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office.

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"Little Office" Quotes from Famous Books

... dialect, by a clerk, who escorted us there, carrying with him a huge bunch of keys, looking more like a gaoler conducting prisoners, than two ladies innocently requiring tickets. We were ushered into a dingy little office, where we found the only occupant was a cat! Our conductor was extremely ignorant, and unable to supply us with any information, his answer to every question being, 'I dinna ken,' or 'I ...

— A Girl's Ride in Iceland • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... over the ship controls, and the Commissioner and Trigger went with the recorder into the little office back of the transmitter cabinet, to slam out some fast reports to the Hub and other points. Lyad was apologizing profoundly to Mantelish as they left the lounge. The professor was huffing back ...

— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... ignorance of what a woman may need. I tried to equip myself for a sudden crisis by the completest preparation of every possible aspect. I did some absurd and ill-advised things. I astonished a respectable solicitor in a grimy little office behind a queer little court with trees near Cornhill, by asking him to give advice to an anonymous client and then putting my anonymous case before him. "Suppose," said I, "it was for the plot of ...

— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

Words linked to "Little Office" : Church of Rome, Western Church, Roman Church, office, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church