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Sentence Examples
Shopkeepers and stallholders preparing the Kingsland Market began to emerge at daybreak.
Three hairdressers appeared at daybreak in order to ready my hair for the wedding.
At daybreak, I found Jonathan hopping around the deck with halyards and ropes.
The event ends when it ends, sometime during the night, and by daybreak it's done for another year.
By daybreak the yards that back onto Ten-Mile Creek were filled with its overflow.
During the mid-day heat the animals take a siesta, so much of the wildlife activity takes place around daybreak and sundown.
At daybreak, as he awakened again and struggled to sit up, a crowd of peasants gathered around him.
Having survived the night, we woke to a daybreak as magical as any I can recall.
We fought all through the night until daybreak, where only three warriors remained standing.
Small puffs of cloud lay low in the east, like a flock of sheep at daybreak, waiting for the gate of the fold to open.
After midnight towards daybreak I expect the rain to become most steady with the warm front directly over southern New England.
At daybreak, Doune woke with a startled jolt of fear, looking around and telling himself it was only a dream.
At daybreak, her father went out looking for his daughter and at 10 am reported her missing.
At daybreak my socks and boots were frozen solid, but the valley warmed fast when the sun topped the snowcapped peaks.
At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment in the porch looking up at the sky.
Every morning at daybreak we would hear hauntingly long-drawn fluid birdcalls.
Evenings are cool, and it's misty at daybreak, but by midday the sun can still be punishingly hot.
We crossed the line of departure at daybreak in formation as a column of platoons.
At daybreak families emerge from their walled houses with cups and toothbrushes.
The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks.
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Many visitors, he said, preferred to see the ancient stone circles at daybreak or at sunset.
At daybreak on a chilly mid-October morning, Phipps' imposing fleet arrived in the harbour.
At daybreak they lay up together in a place she showed him deep within a spinney.
Five of us squashed rapidly into a two man tent and despite the odds slept until daybreak.
The eye of the storm was officially recorded as striking the tiny town of Buras, about 40 miles south-east of New Orleans, with 145 mph winds at daybreak.
At daybreak, they borrowed a small sum of money from a passing family, then called their families from an Internet cafe.
Consider the controversy over daybreak Ranger, a seemingly androgynous character.
His illustration daybreak was once the most reproduced work of art in the world.
By daybreak, over 1,000 police and paramilitary men had moved into place to prevent more trouble.
After feeding small birds for over 20 years, suddenly the pigeon fraternity found me, dozens of them took up residence, cooing loudly at daybreak and ruining my beauty sleep.
By daybreak, the elephants were gone, and in their place came a troupe of perhaps 60 baboons, some descending from the mopane trees to lift anything moveable.
The older adults played vingt-et-un or other card games while the young danced and engaged in flirtations until the party dispersed near daybreak.
At the daybreak of April 3, 1652, it mounted a surprise attack on the camp of Khabarov's troop at the outlet of the Uslee River in the lower Amur.
We even relocate daybreak and sunset, which, one might surmise, are logical ways to determine the beginning and end of a given day, within the compass of clock-time.
I may have had some brief conversation with my parents but the night's final conclusion was a dive for my bed, where I stayed unmoving until daybreak.
It was around midnight and I'd only completed four pitches since daybreak.
I had to ride out in the morning, so I planned to get up at daybreak.
At daybreak, Tamora woke Cleo and took her to wash in the river.
By daybreak, rucksacks are white with frost inside the tents.
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
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The show began officially on Thursday morning before daybreak.
Come daybreak, the atoll was about three miles away and had rough water.
At daybreak, preceded by a small boat taking soundings, Maynard's two sloops entered the channel.
At daybreak on 21 July the English fleet engaged the Armada off Plymouth near the Eddystone rocks.
Not long after daybreak, the Scots spearmen began to move towards the English.
Ordinary camp life began with a buccina call at daybreak, the first watch of the day.
Only before daybreak was she allowed to get on a horse and do the things jillaroos are supposed to do, like rounding up cattle for the market.
At daybreak on December 13, the youngest daughter dons a crown and serves her family S-shaped cardamon buns.
Even the unholiday drabness of the homespun dress could not dim the expectation with which she set out soon after daybreak.
At daybreak, satisfied the retreat was not a trap, Caesar sent cavalry to harass the rear guard, followed by three legions.
Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.
Beneath the marble canopy, any time between daybreak and moonrise, you will find kneeling figures dreamwrapt in adoration of their beloved Virgen del Pilar.
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At daybreak they were in the entrance of the Straits, but the enemy were not in sight.
They slept fairly and, at daybreak, got up the grapnel and hoisted the sail again.
Proclaim at daybreak that I myself will review the troops in the Vivarrambla.
I med him as snug as I could, and at daybreak we hed him took to the sugeon's tent.
It shows us primitive or primeval man, the dawn of civilization, the daybreak of religion, the upgrowth of national life.
I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough.
I had gone one morning at daybreak, with two assistants, into the adjacent wooded hills to botanize.
By daybreak we were again on the march, and riding up the banks of the San Carlos.
The last wire from railhead says that Pedro Montero and his men left at daybreak, after feeding on asado beef all night.
Jerez and another brave joyfully accepted the invitation, and at daybreak the waggon drove off.
The baron, with some of his retainers and all the foresters, halted at daybreak in Sherwood forest.
Two hours before daybreak they crossed the Killeen road and came to a wide brook.
We sailed at daybreak, and had the land breeze to take us out of the harbour.
We reached Santa Cruz shortly after daybreak, and so ended my first experience of a Tehuelche merry-making.
Each of these men who have gone the rounds at daybreak conveys the tesserae to the Tribune on duty.
Shortly after daybreak started for louden Springs, taking different courses, in search of more springs, but can find none.
He walked the plank at daybreak one grey stormy morning just off the Nethermost Ruff of the dogger.
A change of wind the next morning and an early shower checked the flames, and the column moved on again at daybreak.
It is not more than two hours' march to Coimbra, so that we shall be there by daybreak.
On the third morning the regiment marched off at daybreak, Julian taking his place in the ranks, with his knapsack and firelock.
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This we were to hold until daybreak and then, the danger being past, head off due west for Tutuila again.
It was sent at daybreak from the Forbidden City, and the distance is not long.
Boers began attack at daybreak with two or three guns and a pompom, shelling the position hard.
Neither Black Hoof nor the dales were with our party when we halted at daybreak.
He had been about the house since daybreak, and insisted on seeing Mrs. Bluebeard.
From daybreak until late at night the troops labored, unceasingly.
We left calli at daybreak, before the rest of the guests were astir.
On the morrow, before daybreak, there were three thousand at Durham's, and the police reserves had to be sent for to quell the riot.
One morning at daybreak I was awakened by Jim swinging back my door.
The column moved on again at midnight and halted at daybreak at salmi.
It dropped before daybreak, while sas was in the sweat-house.
Before daybreak, the doe always returned to suckle her little one.
Just after daybreak they caught Eastman as he was walking along the bank.
The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.
I tacked back and forth and wore for two solid hours, then hove to till daybreak, and cruised back and forth all day, two men at the mastheads.
The giantess is kept there by the gibes of Atli till the daybreak.
About daybreak, Hardin came upon them, and the battle commenced.
He made his journey safely, and arrived at Holyhead by daybreak.
The next morning at daybreak the household of Nathan 48 hornby was astir.
When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself.
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We inspan at daybreak, and trek on till about ten or eleven.
When kalong came on deck at daybreak, we once more stood in for the coast.
It was the thirty-fifth day of his imprisonment, an hour after daybreak.
Far better if makar had ordered them to be shot at daybreak.
At daybreak on the 9th the advance on the Marne was continued.
It was late at night when I reached Trieste, and I left it at daybreak.
I DO NOT REMEMBER our arrival at my grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses.
Vespasian prepared for the assault, which was to take place at daybreak.
From such halcyon dreams, they were startled one morning, at daybreak, by a savage yell.
They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell.
There, near a bubbling spring, puss had hidden since daybreak.
Reinecke was soon at work, and by daybreak every goose was strangled.
At daybreak of the fifteenth day of my search I was overjoyed to see the high trees that denoted the object of my search.
It was late, and she wished to set out for Valdivia at daybreak.
Why, a man I met at daybreak this morning, just as I was going to turn into the woods for my regular sleep.
At daybreak, on the following morning, Vaughn awakened the boys.
At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts.
It was one autumn morning, and as usual, an hour before daybreak our cavalry had turned out, ready caparisoned for the day's work, whether it might be fighting or waiting.
With every daybreak the rising sun had to wade through a crimson stream, luminous and sinister, like the spilt blood of celestial bodies murdered during the night.
They were obliged to keep concealed all day in the woody margins of the rivers, setting their traps after nightfall and taking them up before daybreak.
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From his oppressed slumber, Young Jerry in his closet was awakened after daybreak and before sunrise, by the presence of his father in the family room.
