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
Nilsson and her colleagues hypothesize that swifts on their vesper flights are working according to what is called the many-wrongs principle.
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
And thou hast heard the vesper hymn That stirred the balmy air, When, as the shadows grew more dim, The pious met in prayer.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George
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