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

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

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

But there is no rose without its thorn, nor dayspring unheralded by the darkness.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

Like molten silver, glowing with a lusciousness of light, soft and yet brilliant, so large and bright and seemingly so near—but just above the ridge yonder-shining with heavenly splendour in the very dayspring.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

In the morning, at the dayspring, I wakened, shivering; lo, The white garden that blossomed at my feet Was a garden hidden in snow.

From Goblins and Pagodas by Fletcher, John Gould