What is "dawnings"

Usage examples of "dawnings".

Livingstone first, and after him, Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, Stanley, are the heroes whose names will ever be linked with the first dawnings of a brighter age upon the dark wilds of Equatorial Africa.

Those who stole the High Princess and her daughter rode by two dawnings ago.

The weather was excellent, from the cool clarity of the dawnings, through the cloudless mornings and bright afternoons, into the mild evenings where they all sat outside and listened to Christina singing along to an inlaid guitar that she'd bought from a traveling pack­man a few weeks earlier.

The dawnings of thy safety shall be shown From whence thou least shalt hope, a Grecian town.

He realized his mouth was hanging open, in what must seem an idiot's gape, became aware of the slight sneers, the dawnings of contempt on the faces that looked up at him.

A stir of interest from the crowd, the dawnings his message might be of hostility.