vespers

• “Without warning or presage the still evening air was smitten and made softly musical by the pealing of a distant chime, calling vespers to its brothers in Antwerp's hundred belfries; and one by one, far and near, the responses broke out, until it seemed as if the world must be vibrant with silver and brazen melody; until at the last the great bells in the”

  The Black Bag

• “Half an hour after supper was read a brief evening service called vespers, and then the boys 'study hours commenced.”

  Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute

• “After vespers, that is to say half-past seven in the evening, the police regulations prohibit any woman from appearing in the streets dressed in the saya.”

  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests

• “a vain spectacle, to ceremonies: going to mass, the sermon and vespers, which is all very well; but confession, the communion, fasting, doing without meat, is not common anywhere ....”

  The Modern Regime, Volume 1

• “Neckar breeze, laid down his awl and went to "vespers," -- a "maas" of cool beer and a "pretzel.”

  Doctor Claudius, A True Story

• “I’m going to something called vespers at five-fifteen and then meeting Father Samuel for dinner.”

  Simon & Schuster: Still Waters

• “These "vespers," said the spokesman, usher in the start of "the Newman event.”

  EWTNews - 7/29/2010

• “Also, we are given only the "vespers" portion of the Rachmaninoff”

  Audiophile Audition Headlines

• “vespers' for the benefit of some twenty hearers, mostly women in black.”

  The History of David Grieve

• “Among the community of iPhone developers it is a reasonably safe bet that not too many of them wear wimples and sing vespers on a regular basis, which makes Sister Catherine Wybourne who tweets as @Digitalnun, Benedictine nun, HTML coder and now iPhone developer, something of special case.”

  The Wall Street Journal: How Many iPhone Developers Wear Wimples?

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