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
His solemnly low implorations were drenched with agonizing tears, and they only ceased when the dayspring came and drove the somber terrors of the night before it.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Walsh, James J.
The dayspring from on high had but put to flight the lesser stars.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
