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

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 Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

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

And like the dew each dayspring new That tender love shall onward lead me: My thirst shall slake, yet thirst awake Till every breath shall pant:—"I need Thee."

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

The scene of woe was gone, and the dayspring of hope had risen for the two girls.

From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine