sunrise

• The first cold light of dawn is just stealing into the room, and everything is grey and mournful I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world. —  The First Men In The Moon
• This morning, the sunrise was all purples and magentas and pinks and blues. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
• When the time for study comes, that study should be simple and sound--no Babel of words, but a wholesome knowledge of things; he may have learnt little, but he will know that little aright; a sunrise will be his first lesson in cosmography; he may watch the workman in his workshop; he may practise the carpenter's trade; he may read Robinson Crusoe_, and learn the lesson of self-help. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• He himself is up at sunrise, for the sunrise is to him signal to new life. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
• Yet this should be done in such a manner that the beginning of the day is not to be taken from midnight; nor from sunrise, that is, when the substance of the sun appears above the earth; but when the dawn begins to show: because then the sun is said to be risen when the brightness of his beams appears. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

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