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

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

Silent the otter, stealing by thy moon, Through the fluttered heron, hears the cry of the loon; Motionless the setter in thy dawnlight gray Shows the happy hidden cove where the wild duck play.

From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred

By the mingled dawnlight and firelight we could see figures running to the fields where the wreck of the great dirigible and the heroic little monoplane had come down.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

Red Cloud Soft her arms about me bound me, First man of the Nishinam, Arms as soft as dew and dawnlight, Daughter of the Nishinam.

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