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

With this admirable and original leader, Italian medicine of the fifteenth century closes gloriously, to slumber for some fifty years, till the dayspring of the new learning.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.

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 Arber, Edward

For in Scotland the dayspring was now risen upon men!

From John Knox by Innes, A. Taylor

The dayspring will glint its glory over thy pathway, and the lustre of morning will bathe thee in heaven.

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard