vespers

• But I had my supper sent up to my room A short time after the bell rang for vespers, the carriage being ready, my father and the confessor with myself and one small trunk got into the best seats inside, and rode off at a rapid rate. —  Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
• These had their sweet bells that pierced the forests for many a league at matins or vespers, and each its own dreamy legend. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Instead of the expected vespers, a hymn was raised by the multitude who filled the church. —  The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham
• I attended at vespers, and have seldom been more gratified with the music of the evening service. —  Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
• Hardly any one was astir; a few good souls wending home from vespers, a tired post-boy who blew a shrill blast from his tasselled horn as he pulled up his sledge before a hostelry, and little August hugging his jug of beer to his ragged sheepskin coat, were all who were abroad, for the snow fell heavily and the good folks of Hall go early to their beds. —  The Nürnberg Stove

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