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

She dressed herself as the man, and in the dawnlight I was deceived.

From Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain by Haggard, Henry Rider

I have only tried to make the most of the best in me, remembering the little verse we had for a motto: 'No robin but may thrill some heart, His dawnlight gladness voicing.

From The Lilac Lady by Brown, Ruth Alberta

Oh, love is like the dawnlight That turns the dark to day, And love is like the deep night With secrets hid away.

From Three Women by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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