dewfall

• “We should also note the fact that the dewfall is a concomitant of cloudless skies.”

  Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography

• “When a priest prays over the Holy Communion bread and wine, he will ask God for blessings "by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewfall.”

  The Huffington Post: American Catholics Prep For New Mass Translation

• “In the revised version, he will instead say: "Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall.”

  The Huffington Post: Pope Urges 'Sensitivity' As Mass Changes Are Introduced

• “The dewfall has laid a faint silver over the grasses and the only sound to be heard is the tranquil background murmur of the sea.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Shetland

• “It carries me back to Cornish holidays in childhood; it always felt slightly autumnal there, even in high summer there was that yellow intensity to the sun and that sharp odour in the air, and the heavy, heavy dewfall each night.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight”

  Afterwards

• “Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.”

  Ulysses

• “With a touch imperceptible as dewfall, she touched her brother's mind and sharpened his inner longing with restlessness.”

  Stormwarden

• “Cool though the night air was they slept soundly and comfortably in the open and awoke a few hours later with the light dewfall feeling refreshed but hungry.”

  The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

• “Many species of insects are most active after dewfall, -- such, especially, as spend a great portion of their lifetime in the air.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859

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