"Evensong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moth on filmy wings Into his solitary lair; Shrill evensong the cricket sings From some still shadow ...
— Songs of Childhood • Walter de la Mare
... superstitious; the censing of those remaining had ceased. The peculiar ceremonies of Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, and Palm Sunday had been omitted in many places. A chapter of the Bible in English was being read after the lessons at Mattins, and at Evensong after Magnificat. ...
— The Acts of Uniformity - Their Scope and Effect • T.A. Lacey
... the aspect of three honours in their hand, and some good court-cards, more beautiful than the loveliest scene of nature; and so the sun went behind the elms, and still they were at their cards; and the rooks came home cawing their evensong, and they never stirred except to change partners; and the chapel clock tolled hour after hour unheeded, so delightfully were they spent over the pasteboard; and the moon and stars came out; and it was nine o'clock, and ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... this scheme of economy included the abolition of the week-day morning-service, but at three o'clock in the afternoon evensong was still rehearsed in Cullerne Church. It was the thin and vanishing shadow of a cathedral service, and Canon Parkyn hoped that it might gradually dwindle away until it was dispersed to nought. Such formalism must certainly ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner
... evensong imminent, and the most needful act at the moment was to compose the harmonium-player sufficiently for her to take her part. Miss Headworth was really glad of the necessity, since it put off the discussion, and made a reason for silencing Nuttie until all ...
— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge
... meet at Evensong in St. Paul's Chapel, and then Lady Charlton would come back and stay the night. On the next day she was due at the house ...
— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward
... on the horizon. The air was still. Not a cloud was visible anywhere in the sky. The world was silent. The drowsing birds, even, had finished their evensong. ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum |
