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Vespers in sentence

17 examples of Vespers in a sentence

He stood through the mass and vespers and evensong, and the next day, having got up earlier than usual, he went to church before breakfast to hear morning prayers and to confess.
They are ringing for vespers, and how carefully that tradesman is crossing himself, as if he were afraid of dropping something!
How sad she was on Sundays when vespers sounded!
People were coming out after vespers; the crowd flowed out through the three doors like a stream through the three arches of a bridge, and in the middle one, more motionless than a rock, stood the beadle.
"I will lay a wager," said Don Quixote, "that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a greater friend of Camacho's than of Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at vespers; he has introduced the accomplishments of Basilio and the riches of Camacho very neatly into the dance."
"And now, Sir Cedric," he said, "my ears are chiming vespers with the strength of your good wine--permit us another pledge to the welfare of the Lady Rowena, and indulge us with liberty to pass to our repose."
answered the hermit; "I scorn the charge--I scorn it with my heels!--I serve the duty of my chapel duly and truly--Two masses daily, morning and evening, primes, noons, and vespers, 'aves, credos, paters'---""Excepting moonlight nights, when the venison is in season," said his guest.
Saint Dunstan, Saint Dubric, Saint Winibald, Saint Winifred, Saint Swibert, Saint Willick, not forgetting Saint Thomas a Kent, and my own poor merits to speed, I defy every devil of them, come cut and long tail.--But to let you into a secret, I never speak upon such subjects, my friend, until after morning vespers."
Thirteen paternosters are assigned by our pious founder for matins, and nine for vespers; be those services doubled by thee.
You said nothing so well, Sir Knight, I will be sworn, when you held drunken vespers with the bluff Hermit.--But to go on.
That life was revealed by religion, but a religion that had nothing in common with that which Kitty had known since her childhood and which found expression in Mass and vespers at the private chapel of the Widows' Almshouse where one could meet one's friends, and in learning Slavonic texts by heart with the priest.
In the afternoon, I had to go to vespers alone.
As for me, vespers over, I waited, reading in the cold dining-room, until she opened the door to show me how she was getting on.
That Sunday, a little excitement in front of the church kept me out-of-doors after vespers.
While I was making my way up the bare hills, I heard in the distance the church bells ringing for vespers on that winter Sunday.
During the uproar, the cardinal, no less abashed than Gringoire, had retired with all his suite, under the pretext of business and vespers, without the crowd which his arrival had so deeply stirred being in the least moved by his departure.
Sometimes one caught sight, upon a bell tower, of an enormous head and a bundle of disordered limbs swinging furiously at the end of a rope; it was Quasimodo ringing vespers or the Angelus.