matinal
Example Sentences
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"The sidewalks are swept, there is no refuse piled up, and a matinal sprinkler truck comes through, washing down the streets."
From Time Magazine Archive
He look'd up, and saw That sad serene countenance, mournful as law And tender as pity, bow'd o'er him: and heard In some thicket the matinal chirp of a bird.
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
He forbade the matinal visit to church, to which she clung so ardently.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
Presently, glancing from his south window, he observed several matinal smokes rising from the chimneys of a country-house a mile away, on a slope fronting the river.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
Then Poppy, her exercises done, majestically trod the coverlet to salute her mistress with the accustomed matinal salutation which Missy called a kiss.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
