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

In the morning, at the dayspring, I wakened, shivering; lo, The white garden that blossomed at my feet Was a garden hidden in snow.

From Goblins and Pagodas by Fletcher, John Gould

And like the dew each dayspring new That tender love shall onward lead me: My thirst shall slake, yet thirst awake Till every breath shall pant:—"I need Thee."

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

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)