Till I ring the vesper bell they will dance."
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
While she was yet standing on the terrace, the vesper-bell was rung from the neighbouring chapel.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Accordingly the excision was made; but upon inquiry it turned out that the monks had possessed a larger measure of good sense, as well as a better exegesis, than the Convention had attributed to them, for Levavi oculos, it appears, besides being a vesper psalm, stood assigned, in the Sarum Breviary, to Prime as well; the fact being that the psalm is alike adapted to morning and to evening use, and singularly appropriate both to the "going out" and the "coming in" of the daily life of man.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington