vesper-bell

While they stepped carefully on, they heard the vesper-bell of a convent.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

“Then why should you shackle poor Gurth, uncle, for the fault of his dog Fangs? for I dare be sworn we lost not a minute by the way, when we had got our herd together, which Fangs did not manage until we heard the vesper-bell.”

Ivanhoe 2004

The vesper-bell, at length, summoned her to prepare for mass, and she descended to her cell to await the arrival of her conductress.

The Italian 2004

New England, and may be said to bear some relation to the vesper-bell, in Roman Catholic countries.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

Through the deepening dusk he beheld the lights of the little town below him: across the solemn silence floated the clear notes of the vesper-bell.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

At our meetings he was like a vesper-bell chiming above a battle-field.

The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

At our meetings he was like a vesper-bell chiming above a battle-field.

The Story of a Pioneer 1915

Every day, through the long monotonous hours, the song of his little guest would come up in snatches to the lonely watcher, and at evening, when the vesper-bell was ringing and the great grey bats slid out of their hiding-places in the belfry roof, the bright-eyed bird would return, twitter a few sleepy notes, and nestle into the arms that were waiting for him.

The Toys of Peace, and other papers 1870-1916 Saki 1893

` ` Then why should you shackle poor Gurth, uncle, for the fault of his dog Fangs? for I dare be sworn we lost not a minute by the way, when we had got our herd together, which Fangs did not manage until we heard the vesper-bell. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

And the vesper-bell, lulling the earth into peace,

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892