Meanings of chief book in inglês

The Bible was their chief book, and happily its stores are inexhaustible.

In a few moments his chief book-keeper appeared in the doorway.

They tossed one another their mutual compliments, drawn from the chief book of their reading.

It has taken fifty years for his chief book, 'Zend-avesta,' to pass into a second edition (1901).

It is no wonder, therefore, that there prevailed once, a belief that the Devil himself had written his chief book.

That way lies the future education of our children,-characterits aim, nature its chief book, exercise of all the bodily and spiritual powers its method.

The chief books written in England under the Norman kings were histories.