dayspring
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Little old Uncle Saltiel worshiped him, his disreputable cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people.
From Time Magazine Archive
My Child, of might indwelling, My sweet, all sweets excelling, Of bliss the fountain flowing, The dayspring ever glowing My darling, etc.
From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
The scene of woe was gone, and the dayspring of hope had risen for the two girls.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green
His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
We cannot afford, in one sense, to give up even the semblances and shows of religion, and these will survive until the new dayspring from on high shall supersede the necessity of their existence.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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