peep of day
Example Sentences
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Milford heard him sit upon the edge of his bed, heard his heavy shoes drop upon the floor, heard him stretch out upon the creaking slats to lie a log till the peep of day.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
A moment in the British camp— A moment—and away, Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day.
From America First Patriotic Readings by McBrien, Jasper Leonidas
By peep of day I went down to the grave, and thar sat the old mother.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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
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
