morning-time

When my father brought the sorceress into the house, my mother was sitting up in bed, giving her hair its morning-time one hundred strokes with her ivory-handled brush.

Wild Orchid Cameron Dokey 2009

When my father brought the sorceress into the house, my mother was sitting up in bed, giving her hair its morning-time one hundred strokes with her ivory-handled brush.

Wild Orchid Cameron Dokey 2009

I shudder to think what we morning-time Protestants — we who abstain from the pageantry and pomp of morning TV — are doing, pop-liturgy-wise, with our RSS feeds and blogs and Art & Letters Daily and Poetry Daily . . .

Philocrites: November 2003 Archives 2003

I shudder to think what we morning-time Protestants — we who abstain from the pageantry and pomp of morning TV — are doing, pop-liturgy-wise, with our RSS feeds and blogs and Art & Letters Daily and Poetry Daily . . .

Philocrites: Matins America. 2003

The course of this narrative, steadily flowing on, bears me away from the morning-time of our married life, and carries me forward to the end.

The Woman in White 2003

Yes, I would stake my life it will hold for a morning-time.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

This, however, is not taken as proving the identity of race, but as proving that in this morning-time of man's existence he had nowhere advanced beyond a low state of savagism.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

England ever since it was fought, and bear in mind that the English race, great as it is, can scarcely be said to have got beyond the morning-time of its existence, we find it difficult to exaggerate the importance of a conflict by which its career for eight hundred years has been deeply and permanently colored.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

In the morning-time one lives, but death always come in the afternoon.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Though the whole life of those ancient races seemed hopelessly lost in the night of time, the gloom is irradiated by the light of modern science, which lays before our astonished vision the remains of arts and industries of the primitive tribes that occupied Europe during the morning-time of human life.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen