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
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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
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