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If possible, meditate in four sessions every daydawn, morning, afternoon, and evening.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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If possible, meditate in four sessions every daydawn, morning, afternoon, and evening.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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Mists, fitful in rain, came at daydawn, they spread in one mantle the skies,
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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The breeze might have toyed with that mist of golden hair, and the great dark eyes -- softly luminous -- had the expectancy of a gazelle awaiting the joy of the daydawn.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull
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The morrow comes, and at daydawn she heaves in sight, just halting as she nears the flagship, to report herself returned all right, and then down toward us -- with a mail, we trust.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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And because she had graduated from girl to woman between sunset and daydawn of that Death Watch, she kissed the last signature, right in the midst of the German cook's dishes, set all higgeldy-piggeldy on the oilcloth top instead of the linen cover, owing to the distraction of the night's tragedy.
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They had had no food since the night before, nor a drink of water since daydawn.
Winning the Wilderness Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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And on rising in the morning, at daydawn, so actual was the sense of what he had seen and heard, and so powerful the impression of it, that he straightway set himself to carry out the injunction it had made, without question of its reality or doubt of its authority.
The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Hall Caine 1892
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Ages that seemed prehistoric step suddenly forth into the daydawn of history; personages whom a sceptical criticism had consigned to the land of myth or fable are clothed once more with flesh and blood, and events which had been long forgotten demand to be recorded and described.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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Now, wherefore is it, that if man be rare sweet, gent, and tender, beyond other men, he shall sure as daydawn go and wed with woman that could hold castle or govern army if need were?
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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