dawnlight

Example Sentences

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The house was dusky with dawnlight creeping in around the edges of the blinds.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The drizzle was stopping, and the dawnlight of the newly-risen sun was sending sparkles through the light rainy haze that shrouded the fields and crowning the eastern fields with the arc of a rainbow.

From The Runaway Asteroid by Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]

Above the dining-table blazed and wheezed a single gas-jet, whose ragged bluish flame was yet sufficiently strong to turn to the colour of night the dull dawnlight outside the air-shaft windows.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

In the morning by the river Saw I first my maid of dew, Daughter of the dew and dawnlight, Of the dawn and honey-dew.

From The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916) by London, Jack

A golden radiance was spreading forth to him from the heart of those leaping flames, like the coming of the dawnlight over the dark earth.

From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)