vesper
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Mr. Sidebottom divides the gladiator’s day into 12 segments—from vesper to vesper—and devotes a chapter of his book to each.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
When I read the news and grieve, my mind has more than once turned to vesper flights, to the strength and purpose that can arise from the collaboration of numberless frail and multitudinous souls.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
Me, I sang Laura Nyro’s “Buy and Sell,” which says, among other things, “death tolls like a vesper bell.”
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2019
On another occasion, I ordered a vesper and got a negroni.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2014
The grass had taken on its peculiar evening shade of green; the sunlight was yellow and amber, the stillness so universal and complete that all nature seemed to await in reverence the vesper hour.
From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.
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