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
Not even the soul-benumbing visits of his clerical minister could repress the swell of the slow-mounting dayspring in the soul of the hard, commonplace, business-worshiping man, Hector Crathie.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
"To-morrow?" she exclaimed, a gleam of hope bursting upon her soul, like the dayspring.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
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
Looking to the dayspring, there is what we have waited for, there the end of our hope, prone and shrouded.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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