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The next morning, at day-break, I summoned sufficient courage, and unlocked the door of my laboratory.
Chapter 3 2010
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The next day ... we got up at day-break, in order to take our journey over Hottentots Holland's Mountain, in the cool of the morning.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Witness the day-break machinations of the crew over at MSNBC's Morning Joe.
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Then he and his wife took the child up there at day-break; and, as the sun rose, they passed it three times through the tree, from east to west.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Then he and his wife took the child up there at day-break; and, as the sun rose, they passed it three times through the tree, from east to west.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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A tenor, strong, ascending, with power and health, with glad notes of day-break
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At day-break set forwards, and about three miles east of
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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We departed long before day-break, crossed Fallaou, stopt at day-break at the Lake of Douro to take water; we went on, and arrived at nine A.M. at Medina.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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At day-break we again proceeded, and in stretching over to gain the middle of the river, we passed a Somoni fishing village on an island; the huts occupied the whole of the dry ground, and it appeared, even when close to it, like a floating village.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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The mists rolled from the hills soon after day-break; and the sun bursting in full splendour above their bare summits, discovered a morning highly favourable to their aquatic excursion.
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