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

Where he had wandered in the darkness to meet his doom we did not know, but in the frosty dawnlight he dragged himself home to die.

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Oh, love is like the dawnlight That turns the dark to day, And love is like the deep night With secrets hid away.

From Three Women by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

All in the dawnlight, white as a snowdrift Lies the wool a-waiting the spindle and the wheel.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

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