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
I saw where the sun's hand pointed, I knew what the bird's note said; By the dawn and the dewfall anointed, You were queen by the gold on your head.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sweet as the dewfall, splendid as the south, Love touched with speech Boccaccio's golden mouth, Joy thrilled and filled its utterance full with song, And sorrow smiled on doom that wrought no wrong.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
One soweth—unaware Cometh a reaper stealthily while he dreams— Bindeth the golden sheaf, and in his bosom As 't were between the dewfall and the dawn Bears it away.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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