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 gray dawnlight of the second morning Lafitte's messenger came up from the Mississippi River at New Orleans, and walked swiftly across the Place d'Armes into Conde Street.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by Patten, William

It was best seen from the island of Vanuatu in the south Pacific from just after dusk to the hour before dawn when its glow was overwhelmed by the dawnlight.

From The Runaway Asteroid by Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]

These secret hassles were continuing as the dawnlight moved over Italy and made Naples and its harbor quite the most beautiful place in the world.

From The Invaders by Leinster, Murray

Where he had wandered in the darkness to meet his doom we did not know, but in the frosty dawnlight he dragged himself home to die.

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)