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
Inshore the one sustained and solemn toll of bell at the pier-head measures out time to the sum of a dismal dayspring.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
Light spreads from the dayspring in the west, and may it shine more and more until the perfect day!
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
The dayspring had begun to streak the east when MacWhirlie, with a chosen band of Brownies, stood again before the closed trap-door of Cteniza's cave.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
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 Richard Jefferies
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