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
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
The dayspring from on high had not yet visited mankind.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
The word for dayspring in Greek means "springing up," and is translated Branch in Zech. iii.
From The Prayer Book Explained by Percival Jackson
Have you kept God’s common dayspring imprisoned among your garden trees and flowers?
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
