Etymology
Origin of dewfall
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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
Yet, though this facile moment flies, Close is your tone, And ere to-morrow's dewfall dries I plough the unknown.
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy
Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
The dewfall on each side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most prolific.
From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by J. L. Kennon
Heavy dew was falling and condensing on all vegetation, and on some other objects, with the curious capriciousness which the dewfall seems to show.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish
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