peep of day
Example Sentences
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Isabel ran to her boy with the first peep of day.
From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart
Bill and I always had our lunch packed and ready to take up the trail at the first peep of day.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
The morning set apart for their departure came at last, and Claus and his companions put off at the first peep of day.
From The Haunted Mine by Castlemon, Harry
We were off Akaba at peep of day, and two armed cutters raced each other to the beach.
From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)
Having caused a bed to be made for her on deck, she wept herself asleep, previously enjoining her attendants to waken her at the first peep of day, if the French coast was still visible.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
