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

The dayspring from on high had but put to flight the lesser stars.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

So near, indeed, is that religious dayspring that I seemed momently to see it breaking over the desert where I brought this book to an end.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

Like molten silver, glowing with a lusciousness of light, soft and yet brilliant, so large and bright and seemingly so near—but just above the ridge yonder-shining with heavenly splendour in the very dayspring.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

Jaunting, journeying To his own dayspring, He unpacks the loaded pern Of all 'twas pain or joy to learn, Of all that he had made.

From The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)