See the calmness of the night, the solitude of the spot, inviting us to break our slumbers by a vigil of some sort.
It is the mean, prosaic, commonplace character of all the surroundings and circumstances that gives a significance to Don Quixote's vigil and the ceremony that follows.
And so the protestant resumed his vigil at the mandarin's palace-gates.
She had a weary vigil ahead of her, for Milton had at last found serious employment.
Four o'clock struck from the clock tower on Madison Square and Rubin had not arrived yet, so Wolfson lit a fresh cigar and beguiled his vigil with a paper he had found under the safe.
Then they sought to keep the medicine-man and his precious burden in sight, but in spite of their best efforts he eluded them in the great throng of Mohawks, and their long vigil ended in bitter disappointment.
Even so, to that young heart, Words and hands, and Men were dear; And the stir of lane and mart After daylong vigil here.
So he has come at last," thought Graham, laying down his book with a sense of relief, not sorry to have his self-imposed vigil brought to an end.
He had been up all the previous night, and racked by the wildest anxiety throughout the intervening day, and to compass this vigil was beyond his physical powers.
Lord knoweth how thou keepest vigil sometimes nearly two-thirds of the night, or (sometimes) half or a third thereof, as do a party of those with thee.
Andy, nearly done up for want of rest, resumed his solitary vigil at the cliff path, occasionally adding to the fusillade whenever a group of natives appeared at the edge of the cliff to hurl another of the weighty missiles.
The success of his long vigil depended upon keeping the chase in view.
For the first time in that long vigil I was torn with a sudden regret.
My one thought was to get cover for the next minutes, for I had an instinct that our vigil was near its end.
The only conclusion I reached from my roadside vigil was that things were getting very warm in the neighbourhood of Erzerum.
This exciting little episode over, Jim and his consort resumed their patrol of the harbour until daylight, when their long and trying vigil ceased.
They were executed with hideous cruelty; after having had their flesh torn off by red-hot pinchers, they were attached to stakes and burnt alive, on the Vigilof the Ascension, 1370.
Guido summoned the Milanese to assemble in the cathedral church on the vigil of Pentecost.
So this was the explanation of the unlocked door and of the nocturnal vigil of Milverton.
It was mid forenoon before they gathered around the chuck wagon, weary and hungry from the all-night vigil and the search.
Chuck pulled on his clothes, examined his six gun and rifle, and prepared to take up his vigil at the doctor's office.
At the end of his grim vigil he got up and went out of his house.
Here he stayed a day, the Vigil of the Feast of Palms.
During this vigil he heard the dull roar and rumble of falling debris, and, when the snow-shower ceased, he saw that two fresh lanes had been plowed through the serried ranks of the penitentes.
Then he, too, after a brief vigilto assure himself that she would not waken, stretched himself in the second bunk.
There was no answer; but Guess rose, yawned, and stretched his limbs, his vigil being ended.
And yet they fearless dream of spoil; While he alone, where thousands passed A night of sleep, perchance their last, In sickly vigil wandered on, And envied all he gazed upon.
Once two members of the "Knights' Vigil of Light," had dined in the company of two women on the terrace of a high-class restaurant in the Zoological Gardens.
But most were keeping vigil through the long hours of darkness, communing with themselves or talking in low murmurs with some comrade; for each soldier knew that the battle-hour was at hand.
In the stormy midnight, by the fitful glare of the dying embers, those two silent men and that pale woman seemed to be keeping a vigil in an abode of death.
Some filed off to the trenches for the vigil of the night.
Soldiers released from a night's vigil in the trenches sauntered along the winding road to the beach, dived in and sported freely in the sea.
