dawn on

The disaster struck at dawn on Wednesday -- late evening in mainland France -- in the eastern village of Afaahiti after a week of heavy rain.

My friend Lloyd the lawyer, in his sixties, cited three special objects of gratitude this year: old college friends who show how they care through their candor, his Shabbat morning bible study group—“they are sharp, warm and skeptical”—and what happens when he walks the dogs each day just before dawn on the Westchester shore.

And so, at an hour past dawn on the day of the Celebrate Alumnae Knowledge Exposition, Miss Penelope Lumley found herself in the kitchen of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, persuading the cook to make Hungarian goulash for dinner.

Only then did the import of the situation dawn on her fully.

Before dawn on March 1, 1954, a Japanese fishing boat named Lucky Dragon drifted in calm South Pacific waters.