dayspring
Example Sentences
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Little old Uncle Saltiel worshiped him, his disreputable cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was pacing it, round and round, like a caged beast, when the stars grew faint and the silver ripple of the dayspring broke over the sea.
From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
But there is no rose without its thorn, nor dayspring unheralded by the darkness.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
The word anatole is translated dayspring in the last couplet, because it is treated here as giving light to those who sit in darkness.
From The Prayer Book Explained by Percival Jackson
Looking to the dayspring, there is what we have waited for, there the end of our hope, prone and shrouded.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
