dayspring
Example Sentences
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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
His solemnly low implorations were drenched with agonizing tears, and they only ceased when the dayspring came and drove the somber terrors of the night before it.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
At a first hearing of "Also Sprach Zarathustra," it seemed as though the very dayspring had descended into the orchestra to make that famous, brassy opening passage.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
But there is no rose without its thorn, nor dayspring unheralded by the darkness.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
He was pacing it, round and round, like a caged beast, when the stars grew faint and the silver ripple of the dayspring broke over the sea.
From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
