complines

We will perform chant complines in the evenings in the breathtaking coro of the monastery, where the cloistered nuns celebrated the offices for centuries.

More Gregorian Chant - Italia! 2009

Of the nones and complines we have happily got quit; and it might be well if we could get rid of the dinner-grace also.

Doctor Thorne 2004

Dinner-graces are, probably, the last remaining relic of certain daily services which the Church in olden days enjoined: nones, complines, and vespers were others.

Doctor Thorne 2004

Andouillets — I will say bou, and thou shalt say ger; and then alternately, as there is no more sin in fou than in bou — Thou shalt say fou — and I will come in (like fa, sol, la, re, mi, ut, at our complines) with ter.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Andouillets — I will say bou, and thou shalt say ger; and then alternately, as there is no more sin in fou than in bou — Thou shalt say fou — and I will come in (like fa, sol, la, re, mi, ut, at our complines) with ter.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

If, on the way, she noticed a convent of any importance, she at once asked to be taken thither, and, in default of other pastime or pretext, she requested them to say complines with full choral accompaniment.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

It was the rule of the house that all the inmates should preserve unbroken silence among themselves from complines until after nones the next day.

The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

He was summoned almost immediately to vespers and complines.

The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.

North America 1862

Every morning he went to hear prayers chanted, and mass and the service of the day sung; every afternoon he reclined on his couch, and listened while one of his chaplains repeated prayers for the dead; and every evening he heard complines.

The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. 1849