Crossword-Solution: MATINAL 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Then Poppy, who always slept at the foot of her bed, awoke with a tremendous yawning and stretching--exactly the kind of “exercises” that young Doc Alison prescribed for father, who hated to get up in the mornings! Then Poppy, her exercises done, majestically trod the coverlet to salute her mistress with the accustomed matinal salutation which Missy called a kiss.

Perched on the steps of the church stood the stooped sable figure of the king, just coming from his matinal devotions.

Saved! I shall never forget a day when my bride and I sat on the edge of the lagoon after our matinal dip in its pellucid waters.

Almost always the fresh and matinal song of one awoke the song of the others, who, more lazy, did not leave their nests at so early an hour.

Awaking early, he made personal preparation for the day, and with the Brotherhood in the chapel, performed the matinal breviary services, consisting of lauds, psalms, lections and prayers.