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

From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

My Child, of might indwelling, My sweet, all sweets excelling, Of bliss the fountain flowing, The dayspring ever glowing My darling, etc.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir