Half an hour after supper was read a brief evening service called vespers, and then the boys 'study hours commenced. From Wordnik.com. [Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute] Reference
Also, we are given only the "vespers" portion of the Rachmaninoff. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
These "vespers," said the spokesman, usher in the start of "the Newman event.". From Wordnik.com. [EWTNews - 7/29/2010] Reference
Neckar breeze, laid down his awl and went to "vespers," -- a "maas" of cool beer and a "pretzel.". From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference
Souls 'comes the religious service, "black vespers.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
Does he chant his vespers, plaintive, sweet, and low. From Wordnik.com. [Our Profession and Other Poems] Reference
Do you hear my voice in harmonies as the vespers play?. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Creation] Reference
The mass over, a second service, vespers, soon follows. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Then, on that night, after vespers, great noises were heard. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Newcastle-on-Tyne, said vespers before Edward I. on his way to. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Canterbury, and at nightfall, just when vespers had begun, they slew. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
When vespers were over and the cardinals were departing, I left them. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Proctors at the vespers, or exercises, on the day preceding Inception. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
However, I must be going, "she added," I have a hundred things to do before vespers. From Wordnik.com. [My Little Lady] Reference
In a word, there only wants Frenchmen, in order to celebrate again Sicilian vespers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
"Let us first dismiss the others to their vespers," said he, "lest they should be weary.". From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
He permitted one of the boy bishops to say vespers before him in his chapel at Heton, near. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Batz in time for vespers, and had an opportunity of seeing the people in their Sunday dress. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
We have already said our morning prayers, and I will finish my spiritual reading during vespers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I attended at vespers, and have seldom been more gratified with the music of the evening service. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
A thrush sang in one of the elm trees, a brown songster carolling his vespers from a topmost branch. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The frogs were singing vespers in the ditches, the sharp chorus of the cicalas shrilled on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
A bell is ringing for vespers, and all the nuns with downcast eyes hasten across a cloister to the chapel door. From Wordnik.com. [The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book] Reference
It was the first time she had spoken since we left the Louvre, whilst all the bells of Paris were chiming vespers. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
In 1243 a Ferrara writer was at Padua, and while attending vespers at the tomb where the sainted body of the Minorite. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The family were devoted Catholics, and sung matins and vespers, and had pictures and images of saints about the room. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
They hold masses, vespers services and two group vegetarian meals a week, but guests are almost entirely on their own. From Wordnik.com. [Alone At Last. . .] Reference
These had their sweet bells that pierced the forests for many a league at matins or vespers, and each its own dreamy legend. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
She sang, played the harp and piano, and we hear of her during a summer at Albano playing the organ at vespers and high mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
M. Gaufre, as usual, recited vespers at St. Sulpice, he found that for the first time in his life he had forgotten his snuff-box. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He must hear mass and say matins and vespers every day, under pain of a fine of a penny, and attend certain services on feast days. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
Frederick remembered that it was the hour for vespers, and gently touched Isabel's arm as she was following Mrs. Farnham into the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The congregation at vespers was large and apparently devout; and here the number of the men was in fair proportion to that of the women. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
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