Adjective : vespertine stillness. From Dictionary.com.
The Halictidae is one of the four bee families that contains some species that are crepuscular; these halictids are active only at dusk or in the early evening, and therefore technically considered "vespertine". From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Entires armies were destroyed as they rested, for the evening was when the vespertine enemy was most cruel. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Whether they are matinal or vespertine, crepuscular animals are responding primarily to selection pressure. From Wordnik.com. [The crepuscular life] Reference
Up Broadway Chandler moved with the vespertine dress parade. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Million] Reference
Cary's "bright vespertine ray" is only a trifle better; but Mr. Wright's "splendour of the evening ray" is, in its simplicity, far preferable. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World, and Other Essays] Reference
Mr. Cary's "bright vespertine ray" is only a trifle better; but Mr. Wright's "splendour of the evening ray" is, in its simplicity, far preferable. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
Fernando Arias vespertine.com.ar. From Wordnik.com. [Reinvigorated] Reference
This fact, being absolutely contrary to life’s rules, provoked enormous and, in the circumstances, perfectly justifiable anxiety in people’s minds, for we have only to consider that in the entire forty volumes of universal history there is no mention, not even one exemplary case, of such a phenomenon ever having occurred, for a whole day to go by, with its generous allowance of twenty-four hours, diurnal and nocturnal, matutinal and vespertine, without one death from illness, a fatal fall, or a successful suicide, not one, not a single one. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
THIS FACT, BEING absolutely contrary to life’s rules, provoked enormous and, in the circumstances, perfectly justifiable anxiety in people’s minds, for we have only to consider that in the entire forty volumes of universal history there is no mention, not even one exemplary case, of such a phenomenon ever having occurred, for a whole day to go by, with its generous allowance of twenty-four hours, diurnal and nocturnal, matutinal and vespertine, without one death from an illness, a fatal fall, or a successful suicide, not one, not a single one. From Wordnik.com. [August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Certainly not all of them have experiences akin to a Templar revelation, but there are many smaller stories within their frames, conversations with lovers and enemies, dreams of wealth and betterment, secret passions and activities unseen, techniques for bargaining with vendors and ways to deal with corrupt policemen, multiple travelogues of places visited, foreign words and phrases that mean more than their connotations, vespertine romances and remarkable dalliances, jeremiads of lost loved ones and the usual megillah about ungrateful friends – most seemingly prosaic, but beneath the superficies are narratives of the human condition. From Wordnik.com. [character development: duality] Reference
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