even-song

The hour, the notes, the even-song of the birds, and her own previous emotions, combined to influence her devotionally.

Two on a Tower 2006

Trencher, which stands in Main Street, Oxbridge, and Pen with delight and eagerness remarked, for the first time, gownsmen going about, chapel bells clinking (bells in Oxbridge are ringing from morning-tide till even-song) — towers and pinnacles rising calm and stately over the gables and antique house-roofs of the homely busy city.

The History of Pendennis 2006

The good chaplain still chants his vespers at morn, and snuffles his matins at even-song.

Burlesques 2006

The good chaplain still chants his vespers at morn, and snuffles his matins at even-song.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Expectantly they waited for something unusual to happen, and happen it did at once — an even-song of the moorland, from a knoll a voice which swept the moor, a song without words, but a perfect deluge of melody — Gina, calling home her creatures.

The Road Leads On 2003

Somewhere in the darkness a child laughed, and a woman's voice lifted in even-song, a lullaby for her baby.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

Esmondet, as they drove away; Miss Vernon to pick up Miss Marchmont for even-song at the Church of St. Augustine, Lady Esmondet for home.

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

The short Darrow evening wore to its close, and I neither spoke to Lillie again nor looked at her, but sat silent, rejoicing, until at even-song I poured out my thankfulness to God, and praised him for this great gift, -- Lillie Burton, my peerless, truthful

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

From the distant church came the sound of bells ringing for even-song, faint as horns of elf-land, through the still air.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

"You see I am here to welcome you; I made myself at home and came here immediately at the close of even-song."

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny