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
From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
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
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
"To-morrow?" she exclaimed, a gleam of hope bursting upon her soul, like the dayspring.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
