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)

Red Cloud Soft her arms about me bound me, First man of the Nishinam, Arms as soft as dew and dawnlight, Daughter of the Nishinam.

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

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

Amanda waited again; she blew out her lamp, for the early dawnlight strengthened.

From Jane Field A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins