What is "predawn"

Usage examples of "predawn".

When in the predawn hours of January 27, a terrible fire ripped through the home and shop of the Philadelphia printer and publisher of the Federal Gazette, Andrew Brown, taking the lives of his wife and children, Adams was conspicuous among the men handing up buckets to fight the blaze.

Conner brought the news to him in the cool predawn hours that Thorne had surfaced in Ajo, southwest of their ranch.

On Saturday, December 16, 1944 the predawn stillness of the Ardennes was shattered abruptly by a thunderous cannonade from 1,900 German guns.

He had flung aside the bedcoverings and lay naked to the cold predawn wind blowing in from Cala Bay, silently cursing the day he had taken the moonstone sigil from the dead sorcerer.

At precisely the correct moment she rolled the lander on its back and commenced retrofire, falling toward the dark predawn.

Clad in whites that shimmered in the gray of predawn, Jeslek stepped from the tent.

Occasionally, the crystals made their way to ground in soft, predawn hazes, as unique a sign of winter as Wengel Star's flamboyant aurorae were to summer.

And when Venus arose, the Morning Star shining as brilliantly beautiful as anything human eyes could ever see, I heard Ava's sigh of pleasure in the predawn darkness.

And when Venus arose, the Moming Star shining as brilliantly beautiful as anything human eyes could ever see, I heard Ava's sigh of pleasure in the predawn darkness.

Through the predawn hours as paratroopers fought in the dark hedgerows of Normandy, the greatest armada the world had ever known began to assemble off those beaches—almost five thousand ships carrying more than two hundred thousand soldiers, sailors and coastguardmen.

Private audiences had ended many hours ago and word had spread that the Dalai Lama had gone to bed before midnight, but we last celebrants partied on -- Lhomo Dondrub, our flyer friend, laughing and pouring champagne and rice beer for everyone, Labsang Samten, the Dalai Lama's little brother, leaping over the ember-filled braziers at some point, the serious Tromo Trochi of Dhomu suddenly metamorphosing into a magician in one corner, doing tricks with fire and hoops and levitations, and then the Dorje Phamo singing one clear, slow a cappella solo in a voice so sweet that it haunts my dreams to this day, and finally the scores of others joining in the Oracle Song as the orchestra prepares to wrap up the evening's celebration before the predawn begins to fade the night sky.

Nice and atmospheric for the dumbs, but the clothes didn't give her nearly enough warmth for predawn in the high cedar scrub forest around Sedona.

He had done predawn surgery, visited half a dozen patients and then walked out of a Board of Directors* meeting at the hospital in order to fly to Athens for the trial.

She looked around her at the darkness crowding onto the blue witchlight and the velvet night beyond the window, charcoal black and still with the predawn drop of the wind, as if all the world held its breath.

No wonder Collingswood hadn't seen energy beams during the predawn raid.