Etymology
Origin of dewfall
Example Sentences
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I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
He insisted, for instance, upon putting wraps about her shoulders after dewfall and refused to believe that she never caught cold.
From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
The dewfall had been very heavy, and soaked them from nose tip to tail, and the bats wheeled overhead.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.
Roses with dewfall laden One garden grows for me; I call them kisses, maiden, And gather them from thee.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur
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