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

In the morning by the river Saw I first my maid of dew, Daughter of the dew and dawnlight, Of the dawn and honey-dew.

From The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916) by London, Jack

That night I watched the poppling brew, With bended back and hand on knee: I stirred it till the dawnlight grew, And the wind whiffled wailfully.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

But the grey, grey company  Stood every man alone In the chilly dawnlight,  Scarcely had they known Ere the day they perished,  That their beacon-star Was not glint of marsh-light  In the shadows far.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

This it was that transformed that man of the early dawnlight named Enoch, the seventh from Adam.

From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)