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

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

From Jane Field A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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

A golden radiance was spreading forth to him from the heart of those leaping flames, like the coming of the dawnlight over the dark earth.

From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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