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Example sentences for "vesper"

Lexicographically close words:
vesicle; vesicles; vesicula; vesiculae; vesicular; vespere; vespers; vesque; vessel; vessell
  1. How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee.

  2. And when a bird has this habit he will not omit his vesper song, even when the sun is not visible and when rain is falling.

  3. In their orderly and punctual progress they brought round Vesper Service and twilight.

  4. The bells are going for daily vesper service, and he must needs attend it, one would say, from his haste to reach the open Cathedral door.

  5. Shortly before his death he was roused from the stupor which clouded his mind, by the ringing of the vesper bell of a neighbouring church.

  6. The vesper and the matin hours became at once the epochs of his day.

  7. His eye glistened, his heart was touched by the vesper spell.

  8. A Vesper Sparrow ran along the road before them, flitting a few feet ahead each time they overtook it and showing the white outer tail-feathers as it flew.

  9. No other sounds than their pure cadencies disturb the echoless air except the simple hymns around the altar, the vesper bell, the roll of the organ, the deep chords of the piano, or the thrum of the harp.

  10. Vesper service was in progress, and I sat and watched the devout at their aves and paternosters, a scene in its way food for rather painful meditation.

  11. Vesper cymbals clashed faintly in a temple, and from its open door the first plummet of lamplight began to fathom the dark margin.

  12. Her vesper chimes have died away, Where shall we be on Christmas day?

  13. After the service was over Graham went out with the children, while Shirley lingered to play over an accompaniment for a girl who was going to sing at the vesper service that afternoon.

  14. There's a vesper service at five o'clock.

  15. She went over to the vesper service at the little church across the fields.

  16. It seemed a wonderful supper to them all, eaten out there under the trees, with the birds beginning their vesper songs and the stars peeping out slyly.

  17. The name Vesper Sparrow is given this bird because of its habit of tuning up along toward evening; it is perhaps more often known as the "Bay-winged Sparrow" or "Grass Finch.

  18. The similar Western Vesper Sparrow (confinis) is found from the Plains to the Pacific coast ranges.

  19. The clock was striking the hour of one, and within the low and grey cloisters, which are now destroyed, a late vesper was tuned.

  20. And when you go home tired after sundown Vesper Sparrow will tell you how grateful we are.

  21. From neighbouring campanili, vesper bells sound a chorus in the bright Italian sky, and beneath the eye stretches, as a prairie of the old world, the wide Campagna, spanned by broken viaducts and bounded by the blue Alban hills.

  22. Not till after the vesper hour did footsteps, light yet energetic, sound from the direction of the park, breaking through the undergrowth to cut off the curves of the pathway.

  23. The song is of the sparrow kind, and, in its best parts, perpetually suggested the notes of our vesper sparrow; but the wonder of it is its copiousness and sustained strength.

  24. Now I think I will go feed the folks in the nursery, and then I will go to have vesper service in the cathedral.

  25. In the cathedral the wind and the trees sang a vesper song.

  26. The sweet vesper service soothed her soul, and when it was over, and the benediction was given, the "peace that passeth all understanding" descended upon her troubled spirit.

  27. The vesper hymn was pealing forth from the choir, and all the sisterhood, except herself, were singing.

  28. When the vesper service was over, she took her tea with the nuns in their refectory; and then returned to the play-room in the Infants' Asylum.

  29. The vesper bell called them to the chapel, and the conversation ceased.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vesper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.