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Sentences starting with dawn

Dawn came as I was fighting the mosquitoes,--a still, sultry dawn with thunder muttering in the distance. [9]
Dawn was already glimmering without when the supplicant at last rose and sought her couch. [10]
Dawn was not far away, and before daybreak he must have the hill which was the key to the whole position, which commanded the left flank of the foe. [11]
Dawn was just breaking; the grey moist light shone with a naked coldness on land and water; wild- fowl came fluttering, voiceless, past; night was still drenched in sleep. [11]
Dawn was just appearing, and I rang for the old maid-servant who waited on me. [10]
Dawn was approaching. [4]

Sentences ending with dawn

Didn't I tell you that it is always darkest just before the dawn? [4]
The fearful work went on until nearly dawn. [5]
Sacre, how I watched the dawn! [11]
After an hour's waiting, we dream on again, and, before we know it, come out of our cold doze into the cold dawn. [4]
They will be waiting for us, and you must be at your friend's house in the town before dawn. [10]
It was a vast emotion, fibre-drawn From all the elements since the first dawn. [11]
We will move upon the forts of the south bank to-morrow at dawn. [5]
And she cried to her lord, 'O my lord, O my life, From the desert I come; From the hills of the Dawn. [11]
And she cried to her lord, "O my lord, O my life, From the desert I come; From the hills of the Dawn. [11]
There was no time to see the interior of the building, for Pyrrhus expected his guest to join him at the harbour at sunrise, and the eastern sky was already brightening with the approach of dawn. [10]

Short sentences using dawn

It must be nearly dawn? [10]
We follow at dawn. [5]
We assault at dawn! [5]
See, the dawn comes up! [11]
Toward dawn the bird ceased. [5]
Dawn. [11]

Sentences containing dawn two or more times

Who is it passeth us by, Still in the dawn and the mist-- Tall seigneur of the dawn, A two-edged sword at his thigh, A shield of gold at his wrist? [11]
Hadrian's accurate memory cherished them all and now he had sat till dawn and from dawn till the sun had reached the meridian, repeating them again and again to him self. [10]
Where I swear by the stone of the corner, there am I from dark to dark and from dawn to dawn, pasha. [11]

More example sentences with the word dawn in them

Youth answering to youth had claimed its own; love springing from the dawn, brave and bright-eyed, had waved its wand towards that good country called Home. [11]
Eagles, spread out your wings,-- Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
Eagles spread out your wings, Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
In fact, the young mother had waited from early dawn with increasing anxiety for her husband. [10]
It was not yet dawn, however, for the clocks were only striking three as the assembly, in winter coats and soft wraps, fluttered out to its carriages, chattering and laughing, with endless good-nights in the languages of France, Germany, and Spain. [4]
There was the world of the Old Testament, of David and Samson, and of those dim figures in the dawn of history, called the Patriarchs. [4]
The sea, the winds of heaven, had aided others since the dawn of history. [9]
Before sunrise a wind came from the northern spruces; the dawn was cloudless, fiery red, and the air had an autumn sharpness. [9]
It was Joan who, at last, as dawn drew up, discovered the hollow between two great rocks where the treasure lay. [11]
The early dawn, which was now crimsoning the east, reminded her of the blood which, as an avenger, she must yet shed. [10]
Many a time, when he has ridden all night, he has said to me at dawn, "Take the watch, Boy; if the trail freshens, call me. [5]
Before dawn we were with our army again, and with us the Constable and nearly all his men, for we left only a small garrison in Beaugency castle. [5]
At dawn we were at the city gate again; this time with a hope which our wearied bodies and fevered minds magnified into a large probability. [5]
After that, for weeks, he spent all his midnights in his magnificent mine, inspecting it in security, gloating over its marvels at his leisure, and always slipping back to his obscure lodgings before dawn, with a duke's ransom under his cloak. [5]
No one showed weariness, and when the dawn broke slow and soft over the eastern hills, I motioned my good boatmen towards the shore, and landed safely. [11]
The next morning we took up our march silently with the dawn, the prairie grouse whirring ahead of us. [9]
How at dawn we found them gone, and Kenton and Harrod and brave Captain Montgomery set out in pursuit, with Cowan and Tom and Ray. [9]
By dawn he was tricked out for his raid, but he caught a glimpse of Pudd'nhead Wilson through the window over the way, and knew that Pudd'nhead had caught a glimpse of him. [5]
She, whose nature was so hopeful that, when the glow of the sunset faded, she already anticipated with delight the rosy dawn of the next day, now beheld in Cleopatra's hand the reed which was to sign the death-sentence of Dion and herself. [10]
Furthermore, Colonel Clark was off the next morning at dawn to buy a Mississippi keel-boat. [9]
If his prayer was heard, and his Majesty should decide to battle for the holiest cause, sorrowful anxieties would vanish from his pathway as the mists of dawn scatter before the rising sun. [10]
The daring act was committed just at dawn, by six masked men, who sprang up alongside the coaches, presented revolvers at the heads of the drivers and passengers, and commanded a general dismount. [5]
The grey dawn was already glimmering, yet neither the expected vehicle nor Jorg had come. [10]
The dawn which waked her seemed like a deliverance, and directly after mass she hurried out of the gate and into the open country. [10]
How could she wait until the dawn of another day?... [9]
Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth--on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life--to gather round her tomb. [12]
We got up very much jaded, at dawn, and stepped out at a way station; and, while we were taking a cup of coffee, that Englishman ranged up alongside, and somebody said to him: "So you didn't stop off, after all? [5]
The troop of vagabonds turned out at early dawn, and set forward on their march. [5]
After I had used her up pretty well, I came dawn upon my poor relations. [6]
The rest of us took the road at dawn, next morning, July 20th. [5]
Two sentinels marched up and down, relieved every half hour until the early dawn of the summer Sunday brightened the eastern sky. [10]
I will ride under guard to Beaugency and make so quick work there that Ii and the Constable of France will join you before dawn with his men. [5]
The weather clears, toward dawn, and leaves a brisk pure atmosphere and a sky without a shred of cloud in it--and everything is still, there is not a breath of wind. [5]
At dawn she took her place at the head of the storming force and the bugles blew the assault. [5]
Then Atossa began to rage again, until at last her mother was forced to command silence, and as morning had already began to dawn, sent her to her sleeping-room. [10]
He then began to pace the room in deep thought, often going to the opening which served as a window, to cool his burning forehead and see if dawn were near. [10]
The suspicion began to dawn on Hodder that the Scotch man's ideals were as high as his own. [9]
A light began to dawn on his mind, and he looked at Jen, who stood rigidly pale, her eyes fixed fearfully, anxiously, upon him. [11]
And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down, and she was there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep. [5]
We waited plumb till dawn for them to come back, and kept hoping they would, but they never did. [5]
As he stood thus, worried, exasperated, and perplexed, the fact that there was in her attitude something ominous, dangerous, was slow to dawn on him. [9]
The matter was this: He happened to be up very early--at dawn, in fact; and he crossed the hall, which divided his cottage through the center, and entered a room to get something there. [5]
That the best things he said in the House came to him at dawn. [9]
The dawn of the third morning was breaking. [5]
The next morning the sun relented, and the wine of his dawn was wine indeed to our flagging hopes. [9]
He watched beside the sick-bed till the dawn stared in and his patient stirred and waked, then he took Ingolby's hand, grown a little cooler, in both his own. [11]
The evening of the second day we set off again, and had a good night's run, and in the dawn, spying a snug little bay, we stood in, and went ashore. [11]
Yet not only the rude gaoler, but anyone would have marvelled what had brought this beautiful, aristocratic woman, in the grey light of dawn, out on the highway to meet the hapless man loaded with chains. [10]
The day followed the promise of the dawn. [9]
By the time the populace were fairly in bed, toward dawn, we were in the saddle and away toward Tours to report to the King. [5]
Three times during the past week he had heard it--once as he went by the market-place of Manitou; once as he returned in the dusk from Tekewani's Reservation, and once at dawn from the woods behind the house. [11]
I wetted down the paper Saturdays, I turned it Sundays--for this was a country weekly; I rolled, I washed the rollers, I washed the forms, I folded the papers, I carried them around at dawn Thursday mornings. [5]
Once, twice, during the next hour, a low, anguished voice filled the room; but just as dawn came, Parpon stooped and tenderly wiped a soft moisture from the face, lying so quiet and peaceful now against the pillow. [11]
The body of the Muse had already taken a definite form and he could begin to work out the head with the earliest dawn of day. [10]
At dawn in the morning we breakfasted and made ready to start. [5]
Who saileth into the morn, Out of the wind of the dawn? [11]
There was only the light of the fire, with the gleam of the slow-coming dawn. [11]
As he travelled the intervening space, shrugging his shoulders, staggering serenely, he told himself in confidence that he would leave the church at dawn, go to the tavern, purchase a horse as soon as might be, and get back to his wagon. [11]
Cassian had seen the gold pieces which had been placed in Erasmus's hand, to pay his travelling expenses, glitter in the rosy light of dawn. [10]
In front of the gate of the king's palace sat a crowd of petitioners who were accustomed to stay here from early dawn till late at night, until they were called into the palace to receive the answer to the petition they had drawn up. [10]
The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist of early dawn, hundreds of feet splashing through the mud. [2]
At last, before the dawn, she fell asleep. [11]
It was like the dawn creeping over white hills and spreading into day. [11]
And just as the dawn come in through the tall windows, a cat crawl out from somewhere, all ver' thin and shy, and walk across the floor; it make the room look so much alone. [11]
Just before dawn the curtain of Nahoum's room was drawn aside, the Armenian entered stealthily, and moved a step towards the couch where David lay. [11]
But at dawn the bugles and the drums burst through the dreamy hush of the morning, and it was turn out all! [5]
Apparently some of the aspects of this now significant omission on Austen's part were beginning to dawn on Tom. [9]
But that ship, that captain, and that pregnant instant had had their work appointed for them in the dawn of time and could not fail of the performance. [5]
At dawn the terrific fight began. [5]
Within the little temple is a portion of the very stone which was rolled away from the door of the Sepulchre, and on which the angel was sitting when Mary came thither "at early dawn. [5]
If I ever take such a trip again, I will have myself called at the first tinge of dawn and get to sea as soon after as possible. [5]
Upon the heavy tables were costly, illuminated volumes; luxurious chairs and ottomans invited to easy rest; and upon the ceiling Aurora led forth all the flower-strewing daughters of the dawn in brilliant frescoes. [4]
With the first suspicion of dawn, every pilgrim took off his clothes and waded into the dark torrent, singing: "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wistful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. [5]
Her dreams were suddenly disturbed by a loud noise, and she clapped her hands directly to warn the lovers and call Sappho, as she perceived by the stars that the dawn was not far off. [10]
In Brandenburg, verily, such frays were common at the drinking-bouts of the lords and gentlemen, and by dawn all offence given over-night in their cups was wiped out of mind. [10]
What he and still more his brave warriors needed was rest until the grey dawn of early morning. [10]
He had to stay there and stand it--awake and suffering--until toward dawn, when sleep again fell upon him for an hour. [5]
Next morning he stated that just at dawn the same spider raised his window and was coming in to get a shirt, but saw him and fled. [5]
Even the voyageurs' song,-- 'Brothers, we go to the Scarlet Hills, (Little gold sun, come out of the dawn! [11]
There is always some new miracle in the view, a new and exquisite variation in the show, a variation which occurs every 15 minutes between dawn and night. [5]
I feared inflammation; so in the dead of night I walked back to the village, roused a trader of the Company, got some liniment and other trifles, and arrived again at St. Saviour's before dawn. [11]
Are your eyes so drowsy that they don't see the dawn shining in upon us more and more brightly? [10]
Sleep had long since overpowered her husband, while Maria lay gazing at the glimmering dawn, as wakeful as if it were broad day. [10]
In the morning she waved me a brave farewell from the block where she had stood so often as I rode afield, when the dawn was in the sky. [9]
In the evening she said to me: "I leave before dawn. [5]
When it passed, she lay still and nerveless between the coarse sheets, and sank into a deep sleep just as the dawn crept through the cracks of the blind. [11]
By these repeals several of the most rigorous laws that ever had passed in England were annulled; and some dawn, both of civil and religious liberty, began to appear to the people. [5]
The sages who served the Pharaohs in the gray dawn of time succeeded in fathoming the mystery of these names given to the everlasting ones at their birth, and their wisdom has come down to him through the generations as a priceless secret. [10]
He began his series of tales of the middle ages and the dawn of the modern era in 1881 with The Burgomaster's Wife. [10]
She also had seen the great peaks lift themselves out of the gray dawn, and Monte Rosa catch the first rays. [4]
It could be seen from her signals that the ship was living throughout the night, but at dawn she foundered before the Sally's boats could be put in the water; one of them was ground to pieces on the falls. [9]
They did not see each other's faces till dawn. [11]
The unfortunate Paulus sat on a stone bench in front of the senator's door, and shivered; for, as dawn approached, the night-air grew cooler, and he was accustomed to the warmth of the sheepskin, which he had now given to Hermas. [10]
Toward dawn we rode deep into a forest, and soon all but the sentries were sound asleep in spite of the cold ground and the frosty air. [5]
All that now retrained for them was death--destruction, with all things living; and she looked forward to this, as a man watches for the dawn after a sleepless night. [10]
I fell asleep, repeating the query, as the dawn was sifting through the blinds. [9]
Upon her complete recovery of strength she always rose with the dawn. [13]
In the fine rain that came at dawn to hide the crests, the company rode wearily homeward through the notches. [9]
You can be quite sure there'll be a search-party out from Tralee, too, at the first streak of dawn. [11]
There is a quality of refinement in their granite robustness; their desolate, bare heights and sky-scraping ridges are rosy in the dawn and violet at sunset, and their profound green gulfs are still mysterious. [4]

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