Were I to live a hundred years, I could not efface the vivid remembrance of those noisy vigilsat Bastion No.
On the vigils of great festivals, their devotions lasted two or three hours.
Thou sittest enthroned, like the spirit of night, And the stars through thy zone shed a tremulous light; The moon is still sleeping beneath the wide sea, Whilst wonder is keeping her vigils with me.
I have passed my days, indeed, in laboratories; but in all my vigils I have not forgotten the tune of a young pulse.
On the contrary, you cannot picture to yourself the bloodshotvigils and the staggering disappointments of a life like mine.
One comes here to endure: not for honours, but for the dignity of many labours, with tears, vigilsand continual prayers; thus should one do.
Its slumber is more vital than the waking life of the rest of the globe, as the dream of genius is more precious than the vigils of ordinary men.
The youthful votary, during his vigils at the sacred tomb, had received solace but not inspiration.
When we sleep the vigils of Thy love are round about us.
Where Alpine lakes their vigils keep Is Love more deep.
The night, between sunset and sunrise, was likewise divided into four vigilsor watches of three hours each.
The Romans divided the time from sunrise to sunset into four vigils (night-watches) of three hours each.
Thither, in his fancy, came the true knights of the earth, purified of sin by vigils in the holy places of the East, to renew unbroken vows of chastity and charity and faith.
Also on Fridays and Saturdays, and on the vigils of feast days, and on most days in Lent, he had eaten only bread and boiled vegetables, such as could be found, and the fasting reminded him of the old days in Sheering Abbey.
After months of waiting, after vigils of anguished prayer such as we can only feebly imagine, she decided to wait no longer for the king, but strike by herself one more blow for the country.
There are also vigils at Saint Aignan, and, on the morrow, a mass for the dead.
She used to water her couch with her tears, and when the adversary of our souls extinguished the taper that lighted her vigilsshe rekindled it with her prayers.
And in the month of June there were the burning of bonfires to clear and cleanse the air, and the marching of the watch on the vigils of St. John Baptist and St. Peter.
My dear Sir--Your title of Poetic Vigils arrides me much more than A Volume of Verse, which is no meaning.
I would not weep, I wish to sleep, Then why, thou busy foe, with me thy vigils keep?
I wake alone to listen and to weep, To watch my taper, thy pale beacon burn; And, as still Memory does her vigils keep, To think of days that never can return.
On the contrary: you cannot picture to yourself the bloodshot vigils and the staggering disappointments of a life like mine.
Four weeks had elapsed since the night on which the inflexible marsk encountered Henner Friser by Viborg Lake, and heard the tones of the vigils ascend from the tomb of the murdered king.
Her cruelty and meanness affected her and marred her beauty more than all the vigils and fastings with which she afflicted herself.
Yet awhile before we sleep, We with Thee will vigils keep.
But holier watchers here their vigils keep Than storied urn or monumental stone; For Law and Justice guard their dreamless sleep, And Plenty smiles above their bloody home.
Strength and joy your days endow, Youth's eyes glow beneath your brow; Wars and vigils are forgot, And the Scytheman threats you not.
Her fastings, prayers, and vigils showed that she also had a turn for the monastic life.
On another occasion he fell into a trance, and during the celebration of vigils solved to his own satisfaction some mysteries that had long baffled his researches, he being for a time in a grand ecstasy of supernatural intuition.
Caesaria, abbess of Arles, and her nuns wrote out many Divine books during the time that was spent between psalmody and fasting, vigils and readings.
