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

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)

His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

The scene of woe was gone, and the dayspring of hope had risen for the two girls.

From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine

Like molten silver, glowing with a lusciousness of light, soft and yet brilliant, so large and bright and seemingly so near—but just above the ridge yonder-shining with heavenly splendour in the very dayspring.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard