peep of day
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Saturday morning, the 5th of August, broke clear and cloudless, and at the very peep of day the hillsides re-echoed to the stirring music of our reveille.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
At the time of the harvest, from the first peep of day to sunrise, before beginning to work, they sing or chant certain songs, the men and women taking alternate verses.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew A baptism o'er the flowers.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Bill and I always had our lunch packed and ready to take up the trail at the first peep of day.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
A moment in the British camp— A moment—and away, Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day.
From America First Patriotic Readings by Jasper Leonidas McBrien
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