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

Then the ascent began: five minutes later they were out of sight, and their vesper flights took them to heights of up to 6,000 feet.

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

My branches poise upon the air, Like soft and level wings; My trembling leaves the wind awakes To a harp of emerald strings— Or thro' the violet silences A golden vesper sings.

From A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart by Various