dawnlight

Example Sentences

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The house was dusky with dawnlight creeping in around the edges of the blinds.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

There was a flicker of dawnlight in the sky, now, however; and he made out others behind, ready for just such a move.

From Police Your Planet by Del Rey, Lester

Amanda waited again; she blew out her lamp, for the early dawnlight strengthened.

From Jane Field A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Above the dining-table blazed and wheezed a single gas-jet, whose ragged bluish flame was yet sufficiently strong to turn to the colour of night the dull dawnlight outside the air-shaft windows.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

Oh, love is like the dawnlight That turns the dark to day, And love is like the deep night With secrets hid away.

From Three Women by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler