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
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
The dayspring will glint its glory over thy pathway, and the lustre of morning will bathe thee in heaven.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
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
For in Scotland the dayspring was now risen upon men!
From John Knox by A. Taylor Innes
