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After that I manifestly knew the will of the God Osiris, when mattins was ended, I went from one to another, to find him out which had the halting marke on his foote, according as I learned by my vision; at length I found it true: for I perceived one of the company of the
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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It was the time when, as the lax monks say, the birds say mattins (but the strict observants call it compline), but there was neither mattins nor compline then in the green wood.
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Deedy ruins her already feeble health with early mattins (she insists on the double t) and frequent fasts.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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I have sat up to say my mattins and finish this diary.
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Ane Frier Paule, of Sylva, an eremit of muckle godliness who wond in a cell neir, by this kirk, whar daily he went to mattins, seid that for ten zeirs, one the eighth of September, tweye hours before day, he saw a light descende from heaven upon it, whelk he seyd was the B.
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On St. St.phen's day she heard mattins in the queen's closet adjoining to the chapel, where she was attired in
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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The Most Rev. Colin Johnson, Anglican archbishop of Toronto, welcomed her to the cathedral for choral mattins.
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The Most Rev. Colin Johnson, Anglican archbishop of Toronto, welcomed her to the cathedral for choral mattins.
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After that I manifestly knew the will of the God Osiris, when mattins was ended, I went from one to another, to find him out which had the halting marke on his foote, according as I learned by my vision; at length
The Golden Asse 1566
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And drowfy Chanters to their mattins calL Their Chief was troubled with a frightful dream.
A select collection of poems; with notes, biographical and historical .. 1780
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