"Without question," Mr. McMonagle said, clutching a worn Bible to his chest, "the result of the order was fear in the pro-life community."

He gripped the worn Bible his mother had given him, and he promised this to the God who had chosen never to abandon him.

The two objected that they were religious leaders and held out their worn Bibles as if to prove it.

He put a few bits of brushwood on the fire, and strove to raise the light, and then drew his worn Bible from his pocket.

I got to my feet, swore to God on an old worn Bible, and placed my fate in the hands of my attorney.

She gently disengaged herself from Molly's hold and went to pick up the worn Bible which the maid, as she well knew, read each morning and night.

She had seen no reading material except a worn Bible carried by an American called Berry who was apparently the leader of the church group.

Before him on the coffee table, amid quizzes to grade and his worn Bible, rested the paperwork for the fund-raising project.

Nelson often studied his worn Bible, using it to keep his victim at ease and off-guard around him.

Yet he dutifully preached where the Mapleses drove him, preached from his worn Bible with the red covers.