dayspring
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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
The scene of woe was gone, and the dayspring of hope had risen for the two girls.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green
From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
The dayspring had begun to streak the east when MacWhirlie, with a chosen band of Brownies, stood again before the closed trap-door of Cteniza's cave.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
But in the meane season we trudge and we trot, From dayspring to midnyght, I sit not, nor rest not.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
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