And furthermore, notwithstanding that the ancient fathers have divided the Psalms into seven portions, whereof every one was called a Nocturn, now of late time a few of them have been daily said and the rest utterly omitted .
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
Across the sleeping lake hurried a north wind, on its long journey to blow open the snowy camellias folded close in the heart of the South, and under his winged sandals the waters crimped, rippled, swelled into wavelets that played their minor adagio in nature's Nocturn, as their foam fingers fell on the pebbles that fringed the beach.
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson
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.
"The Garden Of Allah"
Robert Hichens