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First book of Octavia Butler's "Lilith's Brood" series
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dawn
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. 2 (context countable English) The rising of the sun. 3 (context uncountable English) The time when the sun rises. 4 (context uncountable English) The beginning. vb. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, dauen , "to dawn, grow light," shortened or back-formed from dauinge , dauing "period between darkness and sunrise," (c.1200), from Old English dagung , from dagian "to become day," from Proto-Germanic *dagaz "day" (cognates: German tagen "to dawn;" ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click , get through , come home , get across , sink in , penetrate , fall into place ] appear or develop; "The ...
Usage examples of dawn.
I just sat back on my heels and let her tongue lash over me, until at last it dawned on me that the old abo must have gone running to her and she thought we were responsible for scaring him out of what wits he had.
WAS NEXT MORNING, about an hour before dawn, that I found myself, against my better judgment, riding escort for Miz Lewis as we headed off into the far western acreage of the Cottonwood ranch.
Their times were staggered so they would all be at the same distance from the admin center at the half hour before dawn.
In the hard red light of dawn the leaves and vines dandled in the current seemed to deliquesce, to be runoff streams of dye, matter adrip into meltwater.
Coming on deck just after dawn, Alec saw towering grey cliffs off the port bow and a cluster of islands lying close to shore ahead of them.
Now, with the swift coming of the jungle dawn, the plain had been transformed into a rippling sea of emerald, of malachite, alexandrite, and amazon-stone green, richly flecked with topaz and amethyst.
Bertrand, Amy noticed, with the dawning of delight, was visibly weakening.
They reached there just before dawn, three hours ago, and there was a great ship waiting for them, anchored in the bay.
Now that they had it, the slowly dawning understanding that still, even so, even with that knowledge they might not make it home, appalled them.
Through the window she saw the apse of the cathedral, almost white, and it seemed to her as if it were the reflection of this whiteness which entered her room, like the light of the dawn, fresh and pure.
Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians , Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, 1983.
If the arbitrator decides that Joe is innocent, Tannahelp agrees to pay Joe and Dawn Defense an indemnity to make up for their time and trouble.
For it was Arga, the farrier, who oversaw the hitching of the donkey cart in the gray-lit stableyard at dawn.
The Spaniards approached the island just before dawn, but through the ignorance of the pilot the whole armadilla was cast upon some reefs near the shore.
Chamberlain would scarcely have time to read it before the Nazi armies hurtled into Poland at dawn on the morrow - the X Day which still held?