What is "dawning"

Usage examples of "dawning".

Bertrand, Amy noticed, with the dawning of delight, was visibly weakening.

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.

On the dawning light hung, trembling, the notes of a pastoral aubade somebody was picking out on a guitar.

I cried as well as the apostle, and in my dawning piety I told him that I insisted not only upon remaining unknown to his pupil, but also upon ignoring the amount of the sums he might take out of my purse to forward to him, and I therefore begged that he would help himself without rendering me any account.

She blinked in the dimness, willing her eyes to adjust, and as they did, she saw him standing there, staring at her in dawning wonder.

This command, laid upon me by the only woman who had complete authority over me, and whose orders I was accustomed to obey blindly, caused me to remember the vision, and to store it, with the seal of secrecy, in the inmost corner of my dawning memory.

Cecilia and Marina were two sweet rosebuds, which, to bloom in all their beauty, required only the inspiration of love, and they would certainly have had the preference over Bellino if I had seen in him only the miserable outcast of mankind, or rather the pitiful victim of sacerdotal cruelty, for, in spite of their youth, the two amiable girls offered on their dawning bosom the precious image of womanhood.

He must be one himself to wield hieratic power, but there was no dawning welcome in his face.

The atmosphere, the dawning day, the infantine grace of these little girls in their long frocks and shiny coiffures--all is redundant with freshness and youth.

When he clamped both hands to the sides of his barrel-round stomach, Joc tilde lyn watched with dawning comprehension.

His study of the Chinese phonograms at length resulted in the transformation of his careworn face by a slowly dawning smile, the gleeful smile of a mischief-loving child.

Instead of answering, Scoggin stared in dawning horror and even backed a step.

He was leaning on his cane, chuckling at sight of the arrivals, while the golden rays of the dawning sun gave his shocky hair a glow of silver.

When fore I have prayed unto the most high gods, that they will deign to accept me as thy hostage to misfortune, and set me as a bar between thy life and dawning peril, so that I, long valueless, may serve at least awhile to avert doom from thee who art unparagoned throughout the world!

Though hatless and overcoatless, he was not conspicuous, for the day was dawning mild.