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Definition of Dawnlike
1. suggestive of daybreak [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawnlike
Literary usage of Dawnlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows by Josephine Preston Peabody (1911)
"... dawnlike flute; And you, gloom over, viols of the night With colors lost in
umber, — with sweet pain Of richest world's desire, — prevail, sing down All ..."
2. A New England Childhood by Margaret Fuller (1916)
"Her cheek too was dawnlike. The minutes were long, and the minutes were slow.
He filched Anna's pencil furtively, beguiled by the bare surface of the slate. ..."
3. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1903)
"Earth, as though In f oref east of delight, and dimly limned Grandeurs to come,
looks wistful of a change Brightening, dawnlike, man's mind, ..."
4. Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs (1906)
"... again, a pathos and tenderness that suggest the influence of Perugino, and a
quality of youth and freshness, something dawnlike and springlike, ..."
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