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
My Child, of might indwelling, My sweet, all sweets excelling, Of bliss the fountain flowing, The dayspring ever glowing My darling, etc.
From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
Looking to the dayspring, there is what we have waited for, there the end of our hope, prone and shrouded.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
At a first hearing of "Also Sprach Zarathustra," it seemed as though the very dayspring had descended into the orchestra to make that famous, brassy opening passage.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
Blow to the dayspring of Liberty, to the new nation rising calmly above the dangers that beset her dawn.
From The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre by John Jay Chapman
