| Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common. |
| The early morning is my time of self-collection, my hour of prayer, my matins. |
| He has been with me a week, and every day we have had matins, compline, and evensong. |
| In the popular writings of Queen Anne's time constant allusion may be found to the early six-o'clock matins. |
| Birds were chanting matins as if all the jubilance of their short lives must be poured out at once. |
| The friars inhabited the cloister, sang the matins, fasted and prayed within the walls and lived their lives in Banada six centuries ago. |
