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

In the gray dawnlight of the second morning Lafitte's messenger came up from the Mississippi River at New Orleans, and walked swiftly across the Place d'Armes into Conde Street.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by Patten, William

By the mingled dawnlight and firelight we could see figures running to the fields where the wreck of the great dirigible and the heroic little monoplane had come down.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

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)

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