Sentence example with the word 'nocturn'

nocturn

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The lessons read at the third nocturn are patristic homilies on the Gospels, and together form a rough summary of theological instruction.   [Please select]

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Statius says-- Nocturnæque gemunt striges, et feralla bubo _Damna canens_.   [Please select]

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Swinburne called this "the most sonorous nocturn ever chanted in the church of the world."   [Please select]

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Domini thought that perhaps they dared not sing lest they might wake the sun from its golden reveries, but afterwards, when she knew the garden better, she often heard them twittering with a subdued, yet happy, languor, as if joining in a nocturn upon the edge of sleep.   [Please select]

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