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
Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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
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
They walked on over grass that sobbed in the dewfall beneath their footsteps.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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