dawing

Weel, there’s ane abune a’—but we’ll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning before day-dawing.

Chapter III 1917

We killed an ox, in Burgie, about the dawing of the day, and we brought the ox with us home to Aulderne, and did eat all amongst us in an house in

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

She led to the dawing-room: on the way, Tarrant felt a surprise that in so small a house the drawing-room should be correctly situated on the upper floor.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

Some very prominent persons of the present day are much given to "hum-dawing," which is often a species of conversational hedging.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

If any one hacks and haws in speaking, it is called "hum-dawing."

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

The cawing and dawing rises to a pitch, and then declines; the wood is silent, and it is suddenly night.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

English -- ergo, both of us ought to box away the insult with our fists; so "they set a combat us between, to fecht it in the dawing" -- that is, just after breakfast, in the school-room.

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

Weel, there's Ane abune a '; but we'll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning before day-dawing.'

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

Weel, there's Ane abune a '; but we'll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning before day-dawing.'

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Weel, there's Ane abune a '; but we'll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning before day-dawing.'

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801