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When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rush light or two burned in the room.

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 Meanings and Examples of DAWN
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dawn
 n.  time each morning at which daylight first begins; beginning; start
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
4  Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
5  A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their hinges.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
6  He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, but without seeing them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
7  A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
8  The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
9  The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
10  These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
11  Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there leaps out from them a little being.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—PARVULUS
12  That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING
13  This appellation, Patron-Minette, was probably derived from the hour at which their work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the separation of ruffians.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
14  Not a single bat can resist the dawn.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
15  The remains of beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you.
2  The enemy troops moved in on the city and began to attack at dawn.
3  To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
4  The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
5  However long the night, the dawn will break.
6  Missile attacks on the capital resumed at dawn.
7  In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding.
8  In the east we could see the first faint glimmer of dawn.
9  The UN rescue operation started shortly after dawn.
10  The dawn was filled with the sound of birds.
11  When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rush light or two burned in the room.
12  We saw the sky flush pink at dawn.
13  The dulcet sounds of the birds at dawn were soon drowned out by the roar of traffic passing our motel.
14  It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
15  The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.