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

Blow to the dayspring of Liberty, to the new nation rising calmly above the dangers that beset her dawn.

From The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre by Chapman, John Jay

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 dayspring from on high had but put to flight the lesser stars.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

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.