Citations:advesperate

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English citations of advesperate

Verb: to draw towards evening

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  • 1809, Joseph Hutton, School for Prodigals, published in The English and American Stage, Volume 30:
    See the red gleaming of the western skies, proclaims that day begins to advesperate, and nature to sink into repose!
  • 1840, Baker Peter Smith, Trip to the Far West:
    The day advesperated, ere I left the church yard of Tregony; and I pursued, in the shades of evening, my route to St. AUSTLE.
  • 1870s, J.E.L. Seneker, edited by Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience, or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident (2008 edited reprint):
    Ultimately, as the day began to advesperate, but prior to the cadence of Phœbus,—with pedal envelopes and the inferior portion of my femoral habiliments subjected to quite an illutation…
  • 1874, Kellet Rigbye, The Poetical Works of Kellet Rigbye:
    Then when the day advesperates they meet
    Within some neighbour’s cot to hold debate;
    They talk of village news and future toil,
    And then repair to Slumber’s arms awhile.