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

Moonlight and dawnlight lent an air of mystery and beauty to the solitary country; there was a sort of vast stillness over the land, as the boat glided to her moorings in the early morning.

From Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)

But the grey, grey company  Stood every man alone In the chilly dawnlight,  Scarcely had they known Ere the day they perished,  That their beacon-star Was not glint of marsh-light  In the shadows far.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

When the first dawnlight touched the sea, Karnes was watching it out the east window.

From Instant of Decision by Garrett, Randall

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)