keep vigil the night, except a little

Keep vigil the night long, save a little

She kept an all night vigil over her sick child.

Stand vigil through the night, except for a little of it ,

The vigil of night is more effective, and better suited for recitation.

SPACESHlP WHlRRlNG Now, suddenly, after endless nights of vigil in the Carver Fields,

If they continued their vigil, what might these hypothetical aliens witness in the next hundred years?

Lo! the vigil of the night is (a time) when impression is more keen and speech more certain.

And keep vigil with it during parts of the night, as an extra prayer. Perhaps your Lord will raise you to a laudable position.

And of the night keep the vigil therein, as an act of supererogation for thee belike thy Lord will raise thee up in a station praised.

As for the night there is a voluntary deed for you to keep vigil in part it. Perhaps your Lord will raise you to a praiseworthy station.

And keep vigil for a part of the night, as a supererogatory devotion for you. It may be that your Lord will raise you to a praiseworthy station.

Those who have kept vigil by a sick bed have heard such faint sounds in the stillness of the night watches, sounds wrung from a racked body, from a weary soul.

And as for the night, keep vigil a part of it, as a work of supererogation for thee it may be that thy Lord will raise thee up to a laudable station.

And Fildes was so taken by the physician who held vigil at the bedside for two, three nights, that he decided that he would try and depict the physician in our time almost a tribute to this physician.

And then there was Luke, who washed the floor in a comatose young man's room twice because the man's father, who had been keeping a vigil for six months, didn't see Luke do it the first time, and his father was angry.