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
No whit of harm had come upon them, but within the furnace it was most like as when in the summer season the sun shineth, and the dewfall cometh at dawn, scattered by the wind.
From Codex Junius 11 by Unknown
Roses with dewfall laden One garden grows for me; I call them kisses, maiden, And gather them from thee.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris
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 M. D. Haviland
The merriest part of the day with these birds is the later afternoon, during the hour preceding dewfall, and before the Robins and Thrushes commence their evening hymn.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
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