The quiet time after compline receives a similar treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference

I snapped the photo fast: the bell was ringing for compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

And the monks need both the kitchen and the refectory until compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Name of the Rose]

But the emphasis in the passage is on what transpired after compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference

I would imagine they took to bed following the 7: 30 p.m. compline prayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: A Tiny Look at Gethsemani] Reference

Supper over, the monks prepared to go off to the choir for the office of compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Name of the Rose]

The bell at the top of the chapel was ringing for compline, the last service of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

On our journey, however, he seldom stayed awake after compline, and his habits were frugal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Name of the Rose]

To keep a medieval focus: I often sing with a compline group at Columbia, on Sunday nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's an Earworm?] Reference

Evening in the nursing home reminds me of the compline prayers against the peril of the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upswing] Reference

The material for compline and matins were recorded in nocturnals, none of which survive from the houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference

I have now a little evening service -- compline -- in my rooms at 10 o'clock; Masterman asked me to have it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

Brother Beekeeper teased me when he saw me taking yet another photo of the monastery barn one evening before compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

He will begin his duties this evening at compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference

After compline, Edmund went from the chapel to bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

I will tell you the time this evening, after compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [En Route] Reference

Towarde the eueninge, euensonge: and compline more late.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference

Still, after the compline was over, we sat in deliberation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

Just before the bell rang for compline, Mother Ada came in.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference

The canticle for vespers is the Magnificat; for compline is the.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

The compline service was familiar to each one present, and Father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

He got lost on the way and arrived at night, just before compline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

The company then withdrew for compline, and as they ended the xci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference

"Nay, I must return to compline; I may be wanted tonight, and ought to be at my post," said I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

He had his breviary, composed of matins, lauds, vespers, and compline, or last prayer at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago] Reference

After compline, talk; Fray Juan Perez, the good man, comfortable in his great chair before the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492] Reference

The English even-song is therefore simply the Latin vespers and compline pressed into a single service.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

The great bell began to toll presently for compline, and the guest-master rose in the midst of his explanations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Achievement] Reference

English even-song to serve as either vespers (when Magnificat was sung) or as compline (when Nunc Dimittis was sung).    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

He sat with his father a few minutes after compline; and Sir James spoke more frankly of the news that they had heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Achievement] Reference

After vespers, about compline, as he pursued his way, he saw a knight returning from the wood where he had been hunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Arthurian Romances] Reference

Then, of their kindness, I must to bed, which comfort I sorely needed, and there I slept, in fragrant linen sheets, till compline rang.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monk of Fife] Reference

He hid himself in the grand portico, which he had so often passed through to go to mass or compline within, and presently his heart gave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference

Usually -- always on week days -- two evening services, vespers and compline are said together, or rather one immediately after the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference