"Eventide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... care of her uncle (old Paolo, the caretaker of St. Mark's), Luisa would go each morning to the lace factory, returning just in time to prepare the simple dinner, at eventide. ...
— Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon • Lucy M. Blanchard
... all day long Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various
... and tearing to the nerves—than anything that in my experience ever followed it was the stand to itself. The moments, minutes, even hours, that followed that old familiar order, "stand to," were the worst I ever went through. As every eventide comes on I still feel just a little—just a very little—of what I felt then. Even now: and I fear me I always shall till ...
— A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire • Harold Harvey
... fair, by Arno's bridged gleam,[A] Than Florence, viewed from San Miniato's slope At eventide, when west along the stream, The last of day reflects a silver hope!— Lo, all else softened in the twilight beam:— The city's mass blent in one hazy cream, The brown Dome midst it, and the Lily tower, And stern ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall
... watched, and he gnaws his nether lip; Prince Eugene has cursed as he saw his chances slip: 'Call off! Call off!' he cried, 'It is nearing eventide, And I fear our work is finished ...
— Songs of Action • Arthur Conan Doyle
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