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
With this admirable and original leader, Italian medicine of the fifteenth century closes gloriously, to slumber for some fifty years, till the dayspring of the new learning.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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 Jules Michelet
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
His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
