dayspring

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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

But there is no rose without its thorn, nor dayspring unheralded by the darkness.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

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 Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

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 Nicholson, Reynold

"To-morrow?" she exclaimed, a gleam of hope bursting upon her soul, like the dayspring.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William