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
For years we thought vesper flights were simply swifts flying higher up to sleep on the wind.
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 hour approacheth, when, as their stems incline, The flowers evaporate like an incense urn, And sounds and scents in the vesper breezes turn; A melancholy waltz—and a drowsiness divine.
From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles
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