"Evening prayer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sounds of preparation. Some Brought driftwood for the fires, some gathered flowers To deck themselves, and all the fruitful earth Was robbed of its delights for beauty's sake. Before the feasting Chief Akau rose, Grave and majestic, for the evening prayer; Pouring libation from the kava bowl In a deep silence, to the ...
— The Rose of Dawn - A Tale of the South Sea • Helen Hay
... as soon as may be. Let me see; I will be asked i' the church of Sunday morning prayer, and again at evening prayer, and the next holyday that comes, I will be asked i' the forenoon and married i' the afternoon, for, do you mark, I am none of these sneaking fellows that will stand thrumming of caps and studying upon a matter, as ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various
... give your answer," said the President, "that we may finish our discussion before the hour of evening prayer. To help you to it, remember one thing—we ask no new conditions." Benoni glanced up quickly and the President added: "Those of which we have received a copy, that you swore to and signed in the presence of Marcus the Roman, ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... him to ride over to Ditton. At his lodgings there he found Sir John Berkeley. Major Legg shortly after arrived, and told them that the king had determined, when he went into his private room for evening prayer, to slip away, and make for the river side, where they were to be in readiness for him with horses. Harry had brought his followers with him, and had left them at an inn while he visited Lord Ashburnham. William Long at once rode back to Kingston, and there purchased ...
— Friends, though divided - A Tale of the Civil War • G. A. Henty
... Mr. Cole defines with considerable precision his latest editorial policy and his true attitude toward the United, revealing only the more strongly, however, his remarkable and ineradicable prejudice against our association in favor of the National. "Evening Prayer", by Rheinhart Kleiner, is a poem of great beauty and real worth, couched in the alternating iambic pentameter and trimeter which this poet seems to have made his own particular medium of expression. Mr. Kleiner is rapidly assuming a very ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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