vigil
守夜
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my birdwatching vigils lasted for hours
a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.
The Christmas pageant involving the children from Culleens and Kilglass N.S. will take place during the Gospel at the Christmas night vigil Mass in Kilglass Church.
(in the Christian Church) the eve of a festival or holy day as an occasion of religious observance.
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While she spent her evenings preparing, he maintained an intermittent 'vigil' at the bedroom window, offering some grudging help between observing sessions.
The Senior Traditional Group will perform at the 'vigil' Mass on the third Saturday of every month.
A loyal dog kept 'vigil' for more than a week beside a woman who died in her Bolton home.
Parents kept 'vigil' , wrapped in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe amid the silence of those buried under the mountain of masonry.
On the eve of the ceremony hundreds of Rome's Jews and Catholics protested against the beatification in a candlelight 'vigil' .
Several shoppers and passers-by paused to observe the 'vigil' .
In the old days families kept 'vigil' and ate little ‘Soul’ cakes.
The Christmas pageant involving the children from Culleens and Kilglass N.S. will take place during the Gospel at the Christmas night 'vigil' Mass in Kilglass Church.
Two nights before she died, there was an all-night 'vigil' at her bedside.
The 'vigil' Mass for Christmas will take place in Rathdowney Church on Christmas Eve at 9pm.
Over 300 people attended the 'vigil' in support of the family, with about 150 joining a subsequent march on New Scotland Yard.
She was later transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where her parents were this morning keeping a bedside 'vigil' .
On March 27, about 200 teachers and students from the Wellington and Hutt Valley regions staged a protest 'vigil' outside parliament.
as he lay in a coma the family kept 'vigil'
They have welcomed the family into the church where parishioners and the vicar are keeping a round-the-clock 'vigil' over them.
His travels were circular, he and his companions returning each year to celebrate the Easter 'vigil' on the back of an enormous fish, Jasconius.
Abandoned by their father, forsaken by neighbors, Bolas and the children kept 'vigil' over their mother.
N.O.W. was planning to hold a candlelight 'vigil' outside the jail where Yates is being held.
A mourner, fallen asleep in a late-night 'vigil' , awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing, but the corpse has been stolen as well.
On Holy Saturday they visit Jasconius the whale to keep the Easter 'vigil' , and sing the first mass of Easter on his back.
as he lay in a coma the family kept 'vigil'
the group held a candlelight 'vigil' outside the jail
It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely 'vigil' on the mountain, or a combination of these.
Take her to an Easter 'vigil' or to an Eastern Orthodox Easter midnight service: dramatic-and she gets to stay up late.
Across town the 74 year old archbishop had organised a 'vigil' in support of those arrested, which saw loads of young and old people pack into the cathedral.
We kept 'vigil' by his bedside for hours until for me three in the morning and for my mother four in the morning.
The Easter Offering for the support of the priests of the parish will be taken up at the Easter 'vigil' and Easter Sunday morning.
Some fans were seen weeping and praying for his fast recovery while others kept 'vigil' in a nearby church.
Now parents will be able to take a break from their bedside 'vigil' happy they can watch their child's every movement on a TV screen in a private room downstairs.
The 'vigil' Mass on Christmas was 9 pm and a large congregation was present.
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