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Vesper   /vˈɛspər/   Listen
Vesper

noun
1.
A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky.  Synonyms: evening star, Hesperus.
2.
A late afternoon or evening worship service.



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"Vesper" Quotes from Famous Books



... driving up and down, the vesper bell tolled from the cathedral. In an instant every carriage stopped—every head was uncovered, and bent in an attitude of devotion. Horses, women, men—all as if transfixed: every tongue silent—nothing heard but the bell of the cathedral, ...
— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat
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... while the vesper bells were ringing, Salome dressed herself, and, leaning on the arm of the mother-superior headed the procession of the sisterhood as they marched to the chapel and took their seats in the recess behind the screen, which was so cunningly devised, that, while it ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
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... for that reason little has yet been written about them in popular books on birds. The time will come, no doubt, when they will have a well-recognized place in bird literature, just as the chippie, the vesper sparrow, and the ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
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... the burnie's wimpling course, amid the hazel shade, The robin chants his vesper sang, the cushat seeks the glade; When bats their drowsy vigils wheel round eldrich tree and tower, Be 't mine to meet the lass I ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
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... The vesper bells are ringing, and at the holy sound all pause, drop their tasks, and uncover. The laborer returning from the fields ceases the song with which he was pacing his carabao and murmurs a prayer, the women in the street cross themselves and move their lips affectedly ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
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