How To Use Vesper In A Sentence
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Without warning or presage the still evening air was smitten and made softly musical by the pealing of a distant chime, calling vespers to its brothers in Antwerp's hundred belfries; and one by one, far and near, the responses broke out, until it seemed as if the world must be vibrant with silver and brazen melody; until at the last the great bells in the
The Black Bag
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Finnegans Wake
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Rational Review
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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As the other one danced around a fire that kicked away the vespertine dark, my companion passed me a clay goblet of spirits.
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After vespers, that is to say half-past seven in the evening, the police regulations prohibit any woman from appearing in the streets dressed in the saya.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
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This technique is quite different from the prey detection style usually employed by vesper bats: a technique suited for short-range prey that are detected in cluttered habitats.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Fortunately, the remaining part of the music archive was undamaged by the disaster: this comprises an important collection of madrigals, vesperals and processionals, including an outstanding fifteenth-century Processional for Holy Week, well-known to scholars.
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In this almost totally integrated work, Monteverdi included five vesper psalm settings along with solo motets which he used as substitutes for the antiphons which would normally have been chanted between the psalms.
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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We then proceeded to learn chant for the reformed Roman rite and in the evening, we gathered for first Vespers of the Baptism of the Lord, using the new antiphons from the Solesmes antiphonal and the responsory, 'Hodie in Iordane'.
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge's Winter Weekend
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Because of Vesper's diligent work and Milo's testimony, Caesare was behind bars facing an airtight case against him for smuggling arms, drugs, and mul - tiple violations of the RICO act.
Second Skin
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She also includes excellent hymn suggestions for vespers.
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a psalm (like our antiphons), which introduces a sticheron, or hymn sung at Matins and Vespers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Et venit ad eum columba tempore vespertimo, et ecce, folium olivae raptum erat in ore ejus, et cognovit Noah quod extenuatae essent aquae
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy!
Biographical Essays
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But you might be surprised to learn, as I was, that an inoffensive little vespertilionid is also an awesome tetrapod predator.
Archive 2006-06-01
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(canon 30): "Et quia convenit ordinem ecclesiae ab omnibus aequaliter custodiri studendum est ut ubique fit et post antiphonas collectiones per ordinem ab episcopis vel presbyteris dicantur et hymni matutini vel vesperenti diebus omnibus decantentur et in conclusione matutinarum vel vespertinarum missarum post hymnos, capitella de psalmis dicantur et plebs collecta oratione ad vesperam ab Episcopo cum benedictione dimittatur".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The Magnificat antiphon for 2d Vespers from the Discalced Carmelite usage:
23 January -- Festa in Desponsatione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis
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It is possible that this vesperal was produced for use in a church of the Theatine order: their founder, St. Cajetan, is honored here with arrangements for his feast.
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Vesper:Ten million was wired to your account in Montenegro with a contingency for 5 more if I deem it a prudent investment.
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On the day I saw the exhibit, this hand-copied book was open to the Magnificat antiphon for Vespers on Septuagesima Sunday.
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In his homily, he took up the words of Pope Benedict's homily at Solemn Vespers on the occasion of the conclusion of the Pauline Year highlighted on the NLM, and exhorted the new priests to be committed to the inviolability of human life from its first instant, thereby radically opposing the principle of violence also precisely in the defence of the most defenceless human creatures is part of an adult faith.
Ordinations in Toledo
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The office is a pattern of nonsacramental prayer services that are celebrated at regular times of the day or night, primarily lauds in the morning and vespers at night.
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'vespers' for the benefit of some twenty hearers, mostly women in black.
The History of David Grieve
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Vesper Terrace, off Church Street, Kensington, London W8.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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This depiction, often sculptural as the Vesperbilder usually were but sometimes painted or illuminated, is based on the biblical passages describing the Last Supper.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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There'll be a vesper service commemorating the unnailing of Christ from the Cross, Burial of Our Lord at 3 p.m.
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This very brief Vespers is already found in the Compiègne antiphonary, a manuscript of the ninth century; but inasmuch as an analogous rite is also found in the Ambrosian Easter vigil, it is probably much older.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.2 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the Font, Litany of the Saints, Mass and Vespers
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Ursula Andress also played Vesper Lynd in the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale.
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So while we all have our own jobs, and interests, we come together for dinners, for vespers, for music and art and activism, and just because we like each other.
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
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Conditor alme siderum is an anonymous text from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Since Mercury is solar when matutine and lunar when vespertine, it should surely have different exaltations for the two phases, one in trine to Gemini and the other in sextile to Virgo.
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All - Night Vigil , Op. 37, Vespers: Bless the Lord, O my soul.
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Vespers, that is, the capitulum, hymn, antiphon of the "Magnificat", is taken from the Sanctorale.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Entires armies were destroyed as they rested, for the evening was when the vespertine enemy was most cruel.
Archive 2004-03-01
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As the vesper bells rang, the Witch was summoned from her room by a Munchkinlander maid.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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I bought 5 new cds since last entry - Bjork's vespertine, Jamiroquai's Funk Oddyssey, Ben Folds Suburbs, Orbitals 'Altogether and the new Stereolab.
Fengh Diary Entry
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Whether they are matinal or vespertine, crepuscular animals are responding primarily to selection pressure.
Archive 2006-11-01
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But … throughout Lent, through the poetic piercing stanzas of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and in the presanctified liturgies and Vespers services always ending every service was the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian:
Stones Cry Out
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In the traditional Roman Rite, this Psalm was sung each Sunday night at Vespers, and it has a special tone that is normally reserved for it alone: the tonus peregrinus, or "pilgrim tone," music well suited to this Psalm of the wandering of God's People in their search for the Holy Land.
Archive 2006-08-01
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All that stayed with me after Keane was an unhappy impression of all-abiding tonal uniformity in the hush-tone vespers of dialogues, unhandsome, shallow mise-en-scène, and rigidly adhered-to aesthetic tenets.
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VESPERUGO TICKELLI. HABITAT.--Chybassa, Jashpur, and Sirguja. DESCRIPTION.--Head broad and flat; labial glands developed; ears moderate, rounded above; outer edge straight, emarginate opposite base of tragus, terminating in a small lobe; tragus lunate; tail long; last vertebra free. The face is more clad with fur than in other species of this genus; fur of the body pale, straw brown above, pale buff beneath.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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This will be a male choir which will meet on a Thursday evening in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, for sung Latin Vespers and rehearsal with half a dozen chanted Masses spread among the deaneries each year.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The five tribes of the order are completed, the vespertilionidae being shifted (provisionally) into the natatorial place, for which their appropriateness is so far evidenced by the aquatic habits of several of the tribe, and the lemuridae into the suctorial, to which their length of muzzle and remarkable saltatory power are highly suitable.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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More recently, I watched as seminarians filed into the main chapel on a Sunday afternoon to sing vespers.
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Very few people, even inside the church, know what vespers really means.
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Morning and evening prayer are structured after the traditional offices of lauds and vespers.
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We looked about and could see neither her nor Alice; and as it was nearly the hour they call vesper, though the days were still pretty long, we were greatly alarmed at their disappearance.
Jacques Bonneval
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He came from hearing vespers in his chapel, and shut himself early into his private chamber.
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According to Kamran Safi, one of the authors of the study, "According to the model, the probability for the vespertilionid bats to loose or gain their residential habitat is the same as becoming a short or long distance migrant".
Daily News & Analysis
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In the Roman office the threefold division of Matins was re-introduced even after the vigil service had split into Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, and the divisions came to be known as nightwatches or nocturns.
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Like many vespertilionid bats, females of some rhinolophid species mate during the fall and store the sperm over the winter, conceiving and gestating young beginning in the spring.
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After dinner there is an hour and a half of solitary recreation, which may be spent in garden, ambulacrum, or cell at will, and is followed by None; spiritual reading, study, and manual labour till half-past two, when Vespers de
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The Magnificat is the Evening Canticle, sung each day at the end of the Vespers Office; the text comes from the Gospel of Luke 1:41-55.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Luckier still, we might find a vespers service at 7 p.m., and a much anticipated pilgrims' meal in a local restaurant.
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“ego ius iurandum verbis conceptis dedi, daturum id me hodie mulieri ante vesperum, prius quam a me abiret. nunc, pater, ne perierem 1030 cura atque abduce me hinc ab hac quantum potest, quam propter tantum damni feci et flagiti. cave tibi ducenti nummi dividiae fuant; sescenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi. vale atque haec cura.” quid nunc censes, Chrysale?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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After vespers (an evening service), the celebration continues outside the church.
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Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
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In the Bell Tower a fine chime of bells is placed the playing of which at noon and sunset recalls the matins and vespers of the
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California
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A deputada Beatriz Salucombo, eleita nas listas do MPLA pelo círculo Nacional (foi a 105ª), foi alvejada a tiro na noite de quarta e terá falecido hoje na sequência dos disparos; deplora-se, veementemente, este assassinato, não só porque coloca em causa a ideia de segurança que se deseja para o País, nomeadamente, em vésperas do CAN 2010 como pelo facto de ter ocorrido na véspera de mais um Dia da Mulher Africana.
Global Voices in English » Angola: The assassination of a ruling party MP
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I’m going to something called vespers at five-fifteen and then meeting Father Samuel for dinner.
Still Waters
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As vespers drew to a close the pilgrims began to file quietly out and I was left alone at the back of the church with my rucksack.
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The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.
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Vesper : Submarine Hunter T 2, submerged antinaval unit is effective against both surface vessels and submerged units.
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Wikipedia:Bond seeks revenge for the death of Vesper Lynddoesn't this movie and its title ask, what will Mr. Bond do for his quantum of solace?
Just...look up the words...
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Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Kerry Blasts Boehner Over Troop Deaths "Small Price" Remark
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Kevin, ninthly enthroned, in the concentric centre of the trans-lated water, whereamid, when violet vesper vailed, Saint Kevin,
Finnegans Wake
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Poetry has been the key for me, try www.spreadtheword.org.uk : Threads Started By: vesper..
Now "blogging as a Catholic layman"
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Forests of bur oak serve as breeding sites for numerous songbirds, including indigo bunting, vesper sparrow, and yellow-throated vireo, which breed in these areas exclusively.
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The researchers discovered that the migratory behaviour over long and short distances evolved repeatedly and for the most part independently within the family of vespertilionid bats.
Daily News & Analysis
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In St. Benedict we find the name vespera which has prevailed, whence the French word vêpres and the English vespers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Most importantly they had to pray seven times a day from the matins in the early morning to the vespers in the evening.
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Nec plura elocutus hominem dimittit, qui, non solum injuriae tantae morsu perculsus, sed monitis regis incitatus, quae ille tanquam ignaviae exprobationem si injuriam ferret accipiebat, protinus domum revolat, summo silentio, ut Bussium lateret: astuque per uxorem ad Bussium literas dari curat, quibus ei horam ad secretum Coustanteriae condicebat; ea erat arx voluptuaria et venationibus opportuna; ad quam cum Bussius cum Colladone conscio sub vesperam XIV Kal.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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His vesper psalms were important for establishing the practice of writing for double choir, which was to become a special feature of Venetian music.
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Vespers consists of five psalms with their antiphons as usual, and the Magnificat, with an antiphon from the Gospel of the day.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
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Ili ne volis gxeni la nigre vestitan virinon, kiu sencxese, kvazaux senspirite, la funebrajn cxambrojn trapasxis; de frua mateno gxis malfrua vespero, en pensojn profundigxinta, sxi travagis la logxejon, senripoze kiel la pendolo de l'horlogxo, kvazaux sxi eterne iun aux ion sercxus.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
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Just about two years ago this column was born after I had the idea to mix up a few Vesper Martinis , having just seen Casino Royale.
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The hermeneutic of continuity recently published an update of my FARE 2008/9 professional work which as you are aware has now reached a critical legal juncture here in London : vesper has left a new comment on the post "Mass at St Peter's".
Rinunce e nomine
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This prose or "conductus", however, was not a part of the office, but only a preliminary to Vespers sung while the procession of subdeacons moved from the church door to the choir.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The Cecilian Vespers are comprised of five psalm settings with their accompanying antiphons.
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As I mentioned, last night there were three singers the choir - two basses and a soprano - off singing in a performance of the Rachmaninov Vespers.
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The daily liturgical cycle began in the evening with vespers, following the Jewish reckoning by which the day begins at sunset.
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He went to a Catholic school, he did his vespers, he did his mass, he did his religious studies, but he lost his faith.
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Incapable of finding any satisfaction in mercenary intrigues, they succumb to an indefinable sort of languor, which is called home-sickness, though, in reality, love with them is indissolubly associated with their native village, with its steeple and vesper bells, and with the familiar scenes of home.
Recollections of My Youth
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In 1282 a popular uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers ended the subsequent French rule.
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As I mentioned, last night there were three singers the choir - two basses and a soprano - off singing in a performance of the Rachmaninov Vespers.
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What did I, a lapsed Episcopalian, know about vespers?
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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
Nature
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In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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To be sure the recitation in concert, where the names of the asteroids, only four in number (instead of a million and four) were brought out by some of us, as "vesper,
Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
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After hitting a few wrong notes, Jedidah was able to copy the notes Vespera played perfectly.
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With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
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For comparison, respirometric data were also obtained from Nyctalus noctula, a hibernating vespertilionid bat of similar body size and convergent foraging habits.
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The chants set were Vespers responsories, Mass graduals, and alleluias, and perhaps some processional antiphons.
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One evening following vespers mass, Emmanuelle robed and veiled all in black so that she remained completely incognito stepped into the dark confessional, knowing Father Connor was on the opposite side.
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Stoles for festivals are generally ornamented with embroidery, especially what are called vesper stoles ".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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It is now ready for on-line viewing, minus the Vespers and one motet but it still comes in at 200 pages.
Colloquium Packet (Prelim) is done (for now)
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After hearing the complin vespers in the temporary chapel fitted up in that unfinished abbey of Westminster, which occupied the site of the temple of Apollo [53], the King and his guests repaired to their evening meal in the great hall of the palace.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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(At S. John Lateran's the Cardinals assist at Vespers, and afterwards venerate the relics preserved there) At night the cupola is illuminated, and on the following night there are fireworks or _girandola_ at Castle S. Angelo.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
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We assume that the evolution of migratory behaviour in the vespertilionid bats is an answer to sinking temperatures in their habitats, which made a temporary migration into warmer areas necessary," he said.
Daily News & Analysis
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Neckar breeze, laid down his awl and went to "vespers," -- a "maas" of cool beer and a "pretzel.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
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At prime, tierce, sext, none, vespers, complin, and the midnight office, they daily sung the whole psalter, which every sister was obliged to know by heart.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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One room in particular is dedicated to a display of the 58 illuminated Choir books that were in use in the cathedral until 1930: graduals, antiphonaries and vesperals, carried out on parchment between 1508 and 1530 but unfortunately seriously damaged in the flood of 1966.
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She and a friend go to Sunday morning services, share a leisurely lunch they bring from home, and afterwards attend the vespers.
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He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones.
Là-bas
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Half an hour after supper was read a brief evening service called vespers, and then the boys 'study hours commenced.
Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
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The latter is a sober and vespertine work, set to Verdi arias and performed by three men and one woman with a plaid, bow-shaped pillow attached to her back, suggestive perhaps of wings.
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Vesper led Imite on a series of terrifying whirls, wheeling through the starry sky.
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Last season hermeneutic of continuity published an update of my FARE 2008/9 professional work which as has now reached a critical legal juncture here in London : vesper has left a new comment on the post "Mass at St Peter's".
Fr Edward Houghton RIP
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There are the bouquets of roses on Mother's Day, and the standing ovation she received during a Greek Week vespers service.
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The persons who take part in a Solemn Mass or Vespers are named as follows: The priest who says or celebrates the Mass is called the celebrant; those who assist him as deacon and sub-deacon are called the ministers; those who serve are called acolytes, and the one who directs the ceremonies is called the master of ceremonies.
Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
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There were at least two native mammals in the ecoregion, the Critically Endangered Bonin fruit bat (Pteropus pselaphon), and now Extinct vespertilionid bat Pipistrellus sturdeei.
Ogasawara subtropical moist forests
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Among the community of iPhone developers it is a reasonably safe bet that not too many of them wear wimples and sing vespers on a regular basis, which makes Sister Catherine Wybourne who tweets as @Digitalnun, Benedictine nun, HTML coder and now iPhone developer, something of special case.
How Many iPhone Developers Wear Wimples?
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In 1243 a Ferrara writer was at Padua, and while attending vespers at the tomb where the sainted body of the Minorite
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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The Halictidae is one of the four bee families that contains some species that are crepuscular; these halictids are active only at dusk or in the early evening, and therefore technically considered "vespertine".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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John McCain needs to get his old behind on the battle field to see what these young men and women are going through. vesper
Several protesters interrupt McCain speech
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Lady's office, of the psalms in the office for the dead, of the gradual and seven penitential psalms, and of the psalms sung at vespers and complin, is excellent.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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The office is a pattern of nonsacramental prayer services that are celebrated at regular times of the day or night, primarily lauds in the morning and vespers at night.
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Two glass showcases at the center of the room protect some illuminated incunables: missals, antiphonaries, graduals and vesperals.
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The lights were on in the church, and the choir was making last-minute preparations for Christmas vespers.
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His religious conversion came on Christmas Eve, when he went to Notre Dame during vespers in search of what he called ‘decadent exercises’: the quasi-religious tropes of which the symbolist poets were fond.
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Every soul within the enclave came dutifully to Vespers, and supper in the guest-hall as in the refectory was a devout and tranquil feast.
The Pilgrim of Hate
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Many vespertilionids live in caves, but these bats can also be found in mine shafts, tunnels, tree roosts, rock crevices, buildings, etc.
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This is another example of a long hymn broken up into shorter ones for use at the various Office hours of a particular feast or season; the Ut queant laxis section about the first third of the hymn is used at Vespers; the Antra deserti teneris sub annis section is used at Matins; and the O nimis felix, meritique celsi section is used at Lauds.
Archive 2008-06-01
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In the "Antiphonary of Bangor", an Irish document of the sixth century, Vespers are called hora duodecima, which corresponds to six o'clock in the evening, or hora incensi, or again ad cereum benedicendum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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The hermeneutic of continuity recently published an update of my professional work which has now reached a critical legal juncture here in London : vesper has left a new comment on the post "Mass at St Peter's".
"... this blog is now a Roman Catholic blog..."
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Devoted to her faith, she attended both laud and vesper masses daily whereas the king avoided religious duties, delegating them whenever possible.
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The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast.
The Station at St Paul
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These "vespers," said the spokesman, usher in the start of "the Newman event.
EWTNews - 7/29/2010
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Her dress was of black velvet, simple yet with the touch of splendour that only half a dozen couturiers in the world can achieve," wrote Fleming of Vesper's evening gown in Casino Royale.
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After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
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Some distant bell tolled the hour of Vespers, causing an expression of immense relief to come over Stephen's face.
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a vain spectacle, to ceremonies: going to mass, the sermon and vespers, which is all very well; but confession, the communion, fasting, doing without meat, is not common anywhere ....
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
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Also, we are given only the "vespers" portion of the Rachmaninoff
Audiophile Audition Headlines
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After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
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Vespertilionids have the longest span, largest wing area and lowest wing loading in relation to body mass of the bat groups for which regression lines were calculated.
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Gurth and Harold were seated in close commune in the Earl's chamber, at an hour long after the complin (or second vespers), when Alred entered unexpectedly.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
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Approaching the monastery on a Friday evening, we turned south instead of north and arrived too late for vespers.
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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In addition to these morning Masses, catechism was taught at three o'clock in the afternoon and early evening services at six-thirty featured Vespers and Benediction.
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As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers.
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By its eerie light he looked at Vesper, wondering which incarnation he was seeing.
FLOATING CITY
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And Mr. C.E.B., in the summertime they had what they called a vesper services up on Park Hill.
Oral History Interview with Margaret Skinner Parker, March 7, 1976. Interview H-0278. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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The vespertilionid genus Myotis has the widest distribution of all bat genera.
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As to a dear friend Mother Church bids farewell to her beloved Alleluia on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday, when at the end of Vespers the acclamation is sung twice after the Benedicamus Domino and the choir responds with its twofold repetition following the Deo gratias.
From the Mail
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Throughout the 1770s, nevertheless, dramatic works took second place to liturgical demands, including mass settings of increasing intensity, litanies, vespers, and a series of church sonatas.
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Homer calls her Callisto the Beautiful; Cicero names her Vesper, the evening star, and Lucifer, the star of the morning -- for it was with this divinity as with Mercury.
Astronomy for Amateurs
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Poor little girl; one day to be called a vesper Vole, the next to be forgotten altogether, the next to be remembered after this fashion.
The Divine Fire
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The mammal fauna consists of seventy-six species, of which two vespertilionid bats are endemic to this ecoregion (Table 1).
Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
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And the city began to take fire, and to burn very direfully; and it burned all that night and all the next day, till vesper-time.
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It extended from the _prima luce_, from the earliest dawn of radiance that streaked the "severing clouds in yonder east," through the sun's matin, meridian, postmeridian, and vesper circuit; from the disappearance of Lucifer in the re-illumined skies, to his evening entree in the character of Hesperus.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast.
The Station at St Paul
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During vespers one day, the crucifix lit up and a voice spoke: ‘Francis, do you not see how my house is falling into ruin?’
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Between superior and inferior conjunction, Mercury is vespertine: an evening star seen setting just after sunset; it is also waning and decelerating.
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The official celebration of the saint's feast day began the evening before at vespers and was followed by an early morning mass in the baptistery.
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By extreme, she is referring to roles such as a flying witch in "The Golden Compass" (2007), a psychotic and murderous lesbian school teacher in "Cracks" (2009) and, of course, her portrayal of Vesper Lynd, the double agent who ensnares and breaks the heart of James Bond in "Casino Royale" (2006).
Actress Eva Green's Perfect Sense of Character
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In the past it was broken into three hymns, Aurora lucis rutilat, Tristes erant Apostoli, and Claro Paschali gaudio, which were altered by Pope Urban VIII to Aurora caelum purpurat (Lauds), Tristes erant Apostoli (Vespers and Matins for Apostles and Evangelists in Eastertide), and Paschale mundo gaudium (Lauds for Apostles and Evangelists in Eastertide).
Archive 2008-04-01
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Another class of sacred song in exactly the same style as the Sicilian conductus has a text wherein were introduced the closing words of Matins, Lauds, and Vespers: ‘Benedicamus Domino’, ‘Deo gratias’.
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For instance, here's the "grail"-Verse/Response pair for Thursday Vespers in the Octave of Easter.
Office Hymns of the Octave of Easter
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Note: the Vespers service, one Psalm, and one motet are missing, so the packet will be more than 200 pages once complete.
Colloquium Packet (Prelim) is done (for now)
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There was also what they call vespers at night which went for an hour or two hours, so you were actually in session for a minimum of four hours every day, more likely five or six hours every day.
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The illusion that the viewer shares this vespertine light with the painting evokes not merely a sense of spatial unity (viewer and painted scene both under the ‘same’ lighting) but a temporal unity as well.
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The most valuable aspect of this section of the book is his exploration of other contemporary collections of music for vespers.
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I cringed away from the man, from the way he looked at me—now patiently, as if encouraging a slow learner; now furiously; now with a pregnant, vespertine calm.
Little Bee
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After vespers and meditation the monks sit down to evening supper which is eaten in silence while they listen to readings from scripture.
