It began dawning on me that we were the band. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I feel like it’s many hours before dawn. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and find the stars fading in the pale light of dawn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Already it wore that drab deserted air of a vanished evening and the dawn of a tired day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, she rose and began cutting buttonholes and adding buttons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me the pharmacist would know, but as I went around the last aisle to wait in line for him, I nearly bumped into Vinny's mom. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The doors of the house, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed during siesta time under the pretext that the sun heated up the bedrooms and in the end they were closed for good. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He tapped for attention, and this time the dawn proceeded perfectly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn she had taken a hoe from the wall and she called the children and she took a little cold food wrapped up in a cabbage leaf and she had not returned. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Milkman fished for another cigarette and watched dawn eclipse the electric light over the sink. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Antain donned his freshly laundered robe and headed into the Council Hall well before dawn. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The next morning, with the dawn, there came her uncle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the car immediately filled up with that scent, the scent of a golden dawn. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have always said my mother’s prayers at dawn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As dawn slowly turned the dense jungle from pitch-black to gray, birds began their melodic calls. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Better, I think, to sneak up here at dawn and send the nest into my enemies. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Buford’s pickets saw the dawn come high in the sky, a gray blush, a bleak rose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corsairs had come aboard in the darkness before the dawn, as the Meadowlark was anchored off the coast of the Disputed Lands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He felt a dawn emotion, with a lovely day to slip golden and quiet over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It dawns on me that he hasn’t got the foggiest notion of what he just said. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The other wears a shoe that has been constructed since the dawn of time. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the half-light of dawn, I plunge my hand deeper into the darkness inside the wall, searching for honey, dreaming, as always, of golden treasures. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was dawn and the gate was locked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The daytime birds slept At dawn the Catskill Mountains were white and silent. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He’d just woken up, the first traces of dawn leaking through the cracks of the stacked logs that made up the wall of his small hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How many days could he work from dawn until midnight without getting sick? Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn a cramped and aching Lupita listened in spite of herself to the conversation of the two men sitting on the bench to her right. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the gray dawn of the following morning, a noisy and riotous dream disturbed my sleep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And this sailor, tall, dark and crowlike, marked his ship's papers with a circle that night and was on deck at dawn when the ship sailed out of the harbor in the morning mist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He woke, not knowing where he had been or where he was or what was the faint grey light in the air about him, which was the light of dawn coming to the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotise her; but she lay in a deep and sudden sleep, from which I could not wake her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened that night worse than a brief drizzle of rain an hour before dawn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Beyond his tree, as he slept, the first blood light of dawn was rising up the sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are glimmers of light in the sky as the sun gets set to rise, the road pointing right toward it, the river, too, rushing toward the dawn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours after dawn, they came and got her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Chances of us flying my kite on the beach at the crack of dawn? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was still dark, although the crowing of a rooster told her dawn was not far away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been up since before dawn, and her body needed rest. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He glanced outside the window, where the first vague light of dawn was just brushing the towers of Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn I went back to the ravine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Monday morning and it’s dawn in the railway station. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As the day dawned, the mountain had transformed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, we were in the street, ready to leave. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began to move, urged forward by the increasing breezes of the dawn. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon watched as understanding dawned on his brother’s face, as his mouth and eyes simultaneously widened in horror. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Waiting for dawn would be twelve hours lost and she didn’t have any more water. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A trace of dawn had brightened the eastern sky, the darkness fading into light purple over the houses and trees in the distance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When her body finally settled, somewhere around dawn, she returned home. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I leave a note on my bed for my grandparents and sneak out of the apartment while they're still snoring away like a couple of elephants. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The ride is bumpy and loud, but the cool dawn air keeps us reasonably comfortable. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, it is dawn, and the crowds have grown even larger. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, he laid out a feast for them, and they danced and sang until dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Coming out in the gray light before dawn, the first creature Bigwig saw was Kehaar, foraging between the elders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving at dawn, he travels immediately to the War Department, where he meets with Stanton. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They could talk from dusk to dawn, arguing about books. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And it dawned on me, the reason why—because people our age go on dates at the movies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, a week and a half after the rally, a day dawned that was so clear and dry, Luke knew Dad would be in the fields all day. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each dawn, when residents head out for their jobs, they worry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He could see her now, as the sky lightened into a dawn grey. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dark blue light of dawn was starting to creep in through the laundry room window. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Birds started to chirp and sing in the trees and as the dawn came up we saw strange creatures in the fields, standing, looking at us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It never dawned on me that it might be just as hard to keep being a magician a secret. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

All round him was the quiet summer night, luminous with starlight but paling to dawn on one side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the light outside grew gray with the approaching dawn, Klaus had found out all he needed to know. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the woman blew out the flame, and she was just a shadow in the thin darkness of early dawn. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He squatted down by the pool and watched the dawn spreading across the sky like yellow wings. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At what I judge to be about three hours before dawn, I begin final preparations. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It snowed before dawn, a light dusting of snowflakes, a presentiment of the deep snows that would come further into the winter. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But one woman woke everybody up at dawn on Wednesday because she found the tracks of a biped with a cloven hoof. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I would wake up long before dawn and leave with my shotgun on my shoulder, with my game bag and my partridge hound. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow’s music and eagerly awaited the dawn. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The night had barely ended; the first streaks of dawn rose above the glade. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She awoke at dawn to hear Lady calling and glanced up. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It finally dawned on me that what the feller meant was their ‘rights,’ only, the way they talk, it came out ‘rats.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally came out here and waited for dawn, rocking and rocking like I was bringing the day on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked, coughing, until just before dawn, when they spotted a road sign with Indio and the number 25 beside it. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He went to bed thoroughly exhausted and woke at dawn, stopping just long enough to eat a meager breakfast in the kitchen before riding off to supervise the work in the fields. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When dawn broke, Jan looked up into a cloudless sky and saw a speck moving through the blue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By dawn the fire had burned itself out, but none of them slept very well that night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He got up at dawn just for the chance to sit on the stairs and watch the rest of his family eat breakfast. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

And at dawn there was the sudden sound of hail, like stones tossed against the barn. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

He hurried down the Street of the Crooked Dog and into the dusty thoroughfare, which was stained pink with dawn and already dotted with the scurrying figures of men on their way to work. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was just shy of 6:52 a.m., minutes after dawn, when an emergency medical technician took the phone from Kaiserman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She walked back to Asgard in the dawn and did not stay to watch the stranger build the foundations of his wall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The light began to dawn in Butler’s eyes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘No, not many. They stood up—just a handful. The British fired on them. It was dawn.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Work, more work, then a few hours of exhausted sleep before returning to the museum at dawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On weekdays, their parents left their apartments soon after dawn for their long commutes to work. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But the dawn is coming. At least we’ve bought some time.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that her childishness would increase her value, for a while anyway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly it seemed to dawn on her that he was apologizing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have slept any more than he had—he’d heard her leave for the barn in the middle of the night, and she hadn’t come back until nearly dawn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, a blanket had been thrown over me, and the room was blue with a cold dawn light. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If you have a good buddy, grandchildren, do you not look forward to seeing him when each new day dawns? Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on him that Octavian was calling him a spy—a traitor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

With only a couple of hours of walking ahead of me, and it being hours before dawn, I take time out to look at the mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I saw dawn for the first time. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to wait until dawn, when it would be twilight in Uganda, and tried the call again. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was stop by the surf shop or show up at the beach at dawn, and I'd be handed free Mollusk shirts and thermoses full of tea. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A blustery dawn was breaking over the basalt fortress as the intention craft flew in from the south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The dawn is angry crimson, and the sun—which has now risen enough to peer out from behind the mountains—is practically maroon, looking more like a blood moon than the sun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the armchair by the open window, watching the slow turn from indigo to periwinkle dawn to light gray morning. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Slow recognition dawned on his face and he smiled down affectionately though his gaze looked through and beyond them. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were up at dawn, but somehow they still seemed to have a great deal to do. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The light of dawn began to appear in the sky. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

High on a hill, perched in a tree, watching the dawn come. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The electric bulb suspended from the ceiling burned with ugly sharpness in the dawn. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she narrowed her eyes and snapped her fingers at his face, it dawned on him that the woman might be crazy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at all the restaurant options, it dawns on me that Grandma doesn’t really like to eat out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But before he asked why we were acting weird, something else important dawned on me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Waking up to a phone call at dawn was more jarring than an alarm clock interrupting my dream. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn, a frog began croaking belligerently from the streambed. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Tuesday of the armistice dawned warm and rainy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They’d been together, they said, since before the dawn of time. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A few brave souls had risen with the dawn. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I made my way to the end, carefully skirting an officer chewing out a guy with a badly knotted tie, it dawned on me that I had reported to boot camp. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the gray dawn he built up the fire and found more wood for die day, feeling almost chipper because his ribs were much better now. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day had dawned clear, but now there were clouds beginning to patch the sky with hazy blots of cottony white, and not even any motion there, just the white silence against the blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t say nothing more, just me and Viola by the riverside, resting ourselves as another dawn comes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me then, clear and loud as a siren, that it mattered to Amari what Holly thought about him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I woke up before dawn with an inspiration: an idea how to make a salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A short while before dawn he visited the condemned man in the room used as a cell. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At dawn, worn out by the tormented vigil, he appeared in the cell an hour before the execution. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At dawn I was asleep in the aft cabin when suddenly I was thrown out of my bunk and onto the floor. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Not a morning dawned that she didn’t wake up eager to get to the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, toward dawn, she called the newspaper and told them she had changed her mind. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then one dawn the birds took off for the south, and Drum went with them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The surprise attack—at dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941—killed over twenty-four hundred Americans and put most of the Pacific Fleet out of action. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The drone and clop of Mr. Cooper’s horse-drawn dray in the street outside used to awaken us in the dawn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, as innocent as dawn on winter hills. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s just dawned on everyone that opening night is in less than a month. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Every morning she awoke, if possible by dawn, and got the farm chores finished immediately. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I slaved from dawn until the stars shone: house chores in the morning, serving coffee in the afternoon, and cleaning after supper. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For ten hours they walked, and by dawn everyone was exhausted. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edwin looked out at the horizon glowing red with early dawn. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As I ran the sound of my footfalls was pitched off short in the vast immobile dawn, as though there was no room amid so many glittering sights for any sound to intrude. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, we were hearing that people had begun forming lines at the National Mall before dawn, bundled up as they waited for the inaugural activities to begin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One moment it was so dark he couldn’t see Derek on the raft and the next he could make out the bank, see the trees in the gray light of dawn. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But we have tiger bone wine and dawn wine and wine of fragrant rice—why need you drink tea?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I say, and Uncle Robert turns back and sneers, “We were here at dawn. Shawn is in the first group,” and I go back to my application and finish up. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

So I was still awake when the dawn started to think about showing herself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’d love to have a Court dress like the ones I have seen in Oriana’s wardrobe, opulent patterns intricately stitched on skirts of gold and silver, each as beautiful as the dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lay there early in the morning and watched the high small window above the bed; dark gray gradually became lighter until it cast a white square on the opposite wall at dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three and a half years of nights like these, unable to sleep, thinking of another vanished boy, another vanished life that was once his own, and waiting for dawn, and slop-out and another wasted day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dawn comes early and remains dawn until the sun is high. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, or I’ll make your dying last until the dawn.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next day, at the crack of dawn, the old man was opening his toy booth when Hugo approached. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When day broke, Jon walked to the kitchens as he did every dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The next dawn, Willis was at the dock with him, loading in a jug, some cheese sandwiches, and some corn muffins, then casting him loose, waving him out into the incoming tide. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He fades as quickly as a star into the dawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The fabric gave a kind of answer but it was no more than a flutter, like a breeze across her that she would not remember when she woke at dawn. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was winter, and outside the dawn was cold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my own opening remarks, I said that with the dawn of CO-DESA, progress in South Africa had at last become irreversible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale pink light of dawn found her still out on her terrace, asleep upon the grass beneath a blanket of fine dew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As yet another silence engulfs us, it dawns on me that unless I want to try leaping across train cars drunk and in the dead of night, I’ll be sleeping right where I am. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re well enough to go home now. Girls, we leave at dawn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The morning of March 3, 1913, dawned to ideal conditions—cloudless skies, a light breeze, and temperatures expected to reach the mid-fifties. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She did not know if it was dawn or twilight, an in-between time. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most expire quietly, like a campfire at dawn. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then the real beauty of the situation dawns on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Smoke began to rise eerily from the ground over a wide area, like steam off a lake at dawn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite cold in the room now; the chimes would ring for one any time now; the chill had a compounded, a gathered quality, as though preparing for the dead moment before dawn. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he could labour no more, he cast his cloak about him, and slipped out of the City, and went to his tent just ere dawn and slept for a little. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs at the crack of dawn this morning and saw Dadi in the kitchen, stress cooking and baking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was almost dawn before they saw the Wall again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But at night, in the middle of the night, she woke up without any defenses and cried hopelessly until dawn showed in the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in the still cool hour before dawn they rested for a brief space. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When we arrived in Rochester, dawn was breaking. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The dawn was breaking over the uneven roofs and crooked chimneys of the city. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He agreed with enthusiasm to spend the feast day with his two friends, from dawn to dark, and thought no more of tombs or goblets until they parted on the thoroughfare. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She looked like a young girl with the light of dawn on her face, but as soon as Mo had woken her all her weariness, anxiety, and fear came rushing back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’ve never understood those movies that show families up at the crack of dawn, all cheerful because, “Yay, Christmas!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From it in the early dawn two young men came and stealthily found their way to the temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the horses I’d ridden into this dawn were still caught in there like bugs, whinnying at the shift. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We spent the next few minutes watching the fishermen pull up their nets in the subtle darkness before dawn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he awoke the next time, dawn had crept into the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I said out loud, as it dawned on me that it was heading straight for the high school! All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A servant, torch in hand, showed them out and they slept there in comfort until the dawn appeared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they were gone he still wondered what it was about this mute—and in the early dawn when he lay in bed he turned over questions and solutions in his mind without satisfaction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the forests and fisheries and farmlands of an Arcadian state dawned a powerful military capital, a nerve center that had welcomed residents by the hundreds of thousands since the start of the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I liked how she woke us up every morning at dawn, shouting, “Rise and shine, everybody!” and insisted we wash our hands and comb our hair before eating breakfast. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had done so already, once, at dawn, on the lower rocks, when it was still easy to stand and rearrange her pack. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The next day started well enough, with a sunny dawn that promised another hot day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had a nightmare just before dawn and wasn’t able to get back to sleep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

For them, it was a dawning, the first real hint of hope. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel has a setback one morning before dawn as she is swimming across the Rio Grande into Texas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about waking up before dawn is you get to see the sunrise. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But what if that light that dawned in the eastern Mediterranean 2,500 years ago had not flickered out? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His letters arrived in Berkeley on Friday, January 26; at dawn the following Monday, Ernest was on the long-distance line, making an emotional plea for the Rockefeller Foundation to fund the cyclotron without delay. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the picnic she had to start in at the very crack of dawn, to get all those hens killed and fried up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to dawn the rain stopped and there was a softness after the rain, almost a warmth, and that brought the mosquitoes back for one more run. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the gray light before dawn, Thor met Hymir on the dock. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And every one of those days, from dawn to dusk, had been more or less the same. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It dawns on me that if I don’t get out of this office right now, I’m going to slug him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As dawn breaks, I open the windows to my bedroom and let the last of the cool night air flow in as I strip off my Court dress. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The following dawn, Celaena’s bedroom door opened, and a familiar stalking gait echoed through the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was just peeping over the rim of the boat now, although she had no memory of a dawn. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are wet and her chin shakes, just barely, just a tremble in the dawn sunlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost dawn when we went outside, Joseph and me. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

After Darren does the check-in with Imani’s mom, and he heads out to the gym, it dawns on me: I have four full hours to just be me! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Starting with that night the dull, inconsequential battles began again and would go on until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We docked in Imre a few hours after dawn, and I went straightaway to Devi’s. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m parched, and it dawns on me that I shouldn’t stray far from the trailer without water. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was then that a light dawned in my intricate mind. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the horizon, looking out across the sea, she could see a thin pink line of dawn emerge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thursday morning, the day of the Olympic all-around competition, dawned bright and clear. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He hardly got any sleep because at the end of the day, after taking care of the clocks and working at the booth, he would stay up until dawn working on the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

For five days, I walked from dawn to dusk, never coming in contact with any human being. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I like to see the coming of dawn, the change between night and day, which is always majestic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new day dawned in a haze of soft sunlight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As the sleeping Muslims woke up, when dawn had broken, they almost instantly became aware of me, and we watched each other while they went about their business. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his tree, from which he had watched die dawn. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting, shaved and in full uniform, on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am so filled with fear about going to the bathroom alone at night that I force myself to hold it until dawn when I make a mad run into the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a second realization broke as clearly and bleakly as dawn at the beach. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last an evening came when from the walls the pavilions could be seen upon the field, and all night lights were burning as men watched for the dawn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, as exhausted almost by the telling as she had been when she reached the top of the cliff that long-ago dawn, she described the terrible trade she had made. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A bird perched just a few feet from me alerts me that a new day is dawning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They had been out at dawn and sunset to watch the geese, and he had gone to his rest very tired. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how his gut had clenched when he was kicked awake at dawn with the big man looming over him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Pickett doesn’t like staff on the property after dark or before dawn,” he answered. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But dawns here came on as suddenly as sunsets, and it wasn’t too long before the trail was bright enough for me to walk at normal speed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I listened to what she was saying, the enormity of it dawned on me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that the color of the sunlight was wrong. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dusk seemed to have started at dawn that day, and now the sky was almost black. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

‘But dawn will not help us, I fear.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At dawn he crept forward a foot at a time, hoping he would catch her asleep. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still night, though dawn can’t be too many hours away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the stones of Blackcliff are gentled by the dawn, and the cool air warms quickly, promising a scorching day. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The king’s host departed Deepwood Motte by the light of a golden dawn, uncoiling from behind the log palisades like a long, steel serpent emerging from its nest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because it dawned on me that I had told Joey about the Gatorade bottle when we were on the bus coming back to Pine Mountain from Salem. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before dawn rolls across the city, they are asleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

No more sounds of bark beaters everywhere, pounding out bark cloth from dawn until after dusk every day! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was past dawn when he woke, his feeling of contentment still in him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crack of dawn the next morning we made our way down to the creek, where a thick mist rose above the still, dark waters. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that a clearer trajectory through this morass would consist of zooming in from a bird’s-eye view to increasingly microscopic components. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to usher the remaining patrons out as the dawn creeps up, and they are only consoled by assurances that they may return when the sun sets again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Coraline walked out into the dawn and down the stone stairs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And two days later, as a red dawn broke across a windswept sky, Bran found himself in the yard beneath the gatehouse, strapped atop Dancer as he said his farewells to his brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By an hour after dawn the first flats were mounded over, and the foreman, a white man, stood writing Roman numerals in a black book beside the name of each picker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was not the dawn, for that was still some hours off. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Three lawns a day, once a week, twenty-one lawns if I worked seven days, dawn till dark, no days off. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was only then that recognition dawned on Mr. Jacobs’s face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn the air vibrated with something that was almost—but not quite—a sound. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been riding since dawn, everyone was tired and cold, surely they should refresh themselves first. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At noon not a drip had fallen, the ice was as tight as it had been at dawn. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t dawn on me till after he left that I still didn’t know any more about ladies having babies than I did yesterday when I was just nine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Candlelight spilled from only a few windows, and the stars were faint and distant, as far away as hope or the dawn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had friends aplenty and work to do from dawn till dusk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

An hour before dawn, a long, timber-loaded train that smelled sweetly of pine resin stopped them at a country crossing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment he came awake, it was just dawn, and he remembered, and then he knew, quite suddenly, what to do. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The police arrested a steady stream of protesters through the night, with the last ones being processed and released just before dawn. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he thought again of the raven that had tried to sing the dawn in. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them dark in the dawn the great mountains reached up to roofs of smoke and cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lili got up with the break of dawn the next day. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Instead he had climbed the Wall and walked, restless, until he saw the light of the dawn off to the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With a dawning lightheadedness, the feeling that he was dreaming but awake at the same time, he stood up and looked around for the cat, his guide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From dawn to dawn there was not a cloud, and at night the stars hung out of the sky, golden and cruel in their beauty. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Long before dawn the market space was lit by dozens of oil lamps as potters and their assistants rushed about in an anxious, eerie silence, preparing their stalls. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that he was waiting for me to kill him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself this, over and over, until dawn comes, and a patch of weak morning sunlight seeps through the high-up windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday after Monday dawns bright and clear like some kind of baseball spell. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold, but perhaps just a trifle warmer than the day before, and a low dawn sun burning through the trees looked cautiously promising. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the prayer rug with her legs curled beneath her, as the thread of dawn appears against the horizon. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t thinking in these larger terms as I drove “up the river” at dawn on that Monday in late April, my first day at Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I been bailing Rose for months, getting up before dawn to pump out the bilge and keep her floating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They spent many hours talking together about the changing world and the dawning of independence and liberation movements across the African Diaspora. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It took a long time to admit that I could no longer feel his presence and sometimes I lay awake until dawn listening desperately to the silence and trying to remember his face. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before dawn, southeast of the village, the bells would announce their approach, the sound shimmering across the sand hills, followed by the clacking of turtle-shell rattles—all these sounds gathering with the dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Monday and dawn and the alarm clock. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the camp, they work from dawn until dusk in the rice fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just after dawn on the morning of our fourth day on Cape Torokina I was at the command tent when one of our Marine medics rushed in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the dawn birds were scampering in the bushes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appointed day dawned full of clouds, but so many people had turned out that Marcos did not want to disappoint them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around them animals were stirring: horses stamped, birds began, waking, to sing the dawn in, and here and there across the market meadow, those in the tents were beginning to rise and move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Below her the world turned from black to indigo to green as dawn crept across fields and forests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The answer dawns on his face before I can say it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He left the house before dawn, pushing before him a cart he had fashioned from pieces of plywood and bicycle parts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It slowly dawned on me that it already was her room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So Lazlo didn’t ask himself What could I do? that morning as the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon dawned in the city of Weep, but “What will I do?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They would motor back to the shore and bring the sardines to the fish broker in the market before dawn. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Migrants arrested in a dawn sweep at the Tapachula rail yard are behind bars before their probable deportation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he’d climbed into bed again, curled up like an autumn leaf, every blanket in the house thrown over him, and lain without sleeping until dawn came. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Saturday dawned without any more outbursts from Mrs. Weasley, though she seemed very tense at breakfast. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It suddenly dawns on me that I have to get up again in six hours in order to get to the university by nine o’clock. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They he morning had dawned clear and cold, with a set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I used to have a neighbor, a sleek and thoughtful seal, who could balance a ball on her nose from dawn till dusk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The days were long, beginning before dawn when the sea was purple black, ending with the sunset when the sea was burning red. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But the eye of Cuckoo marked it first and she saw the maid slipping at dawn out of his court and she laid hold on the girl and laughed, and her old hawk’s eyes glittered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It only dawned on me later, I should have told him “blonde.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fateful day had dawned, the tribe numbered forty-two men, counting those who were too old to fight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after Grandpa went off to Jefferson in the buggy with Miss Love, it dawned on me that now Granny’s passing wasn’t so plain after all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Excitement robbed him of appetite and he was impatient for dawn. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As I continued down the street, it dawned on me that I was only blocks from the Arbeiter-Zeitung’s office. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the East there was a dull red glare under the lowering cloud: it was not the red of dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the gloom of dawn they appear like fantasmas, phantoms, and wait—in parking lots, on street corners—looking their best, hoping for work from people who drive by. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, Layla can chill there for a while until she can at least stand straight. You can sneak back home with her before dawn.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At dawn, solitude had greeted her, but not this time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The rain had finally stopped and dawn light was seep-ing through the wet cloth over his eyes when Catelyn Stark gave the command to dismount. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was clean when I awoke before dawn the next morning. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The first period of hegemony was that of Chavin, which from about 700 b.c. to the dawn of the Christian era controlled the central coast of Peru and the adjacent mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Next day at dawn, Akhilleus, we picked your pale bones from the char to keep in wine and oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is not that about three rooms and two meals a day to keep busy a woman who has been a slave in a great house and who has worked from dawn until midnight. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She nods, grimly acknowledging the dawning horror on my face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Women woke at dawn to stand in endless lines where they could purchase an emaciated chicken, half a dozen diapers, or a roll of toilet paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest had vanished along the way; every dawn when they arose, there had been fewer of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then Kelton points ahead, where the light of dawn crests the distant mountaintop. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Koffi watched the fractured sky above her pale as night yielded to dawn. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The morning dawned bright and fair; the air was clean, and the light pale and clear in a rain-washed sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I bang into the room before the oddity of the situation dawns on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But it dawns on me now that, in the end, Mother carried every last one of our possessions outside as a farewell gift to Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As dawn approached, it seemed that it would be a peaceful day. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere just before dawn, when the first light of false dawn was making the western side of the lake come into view, Brian finally accepted it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our silence is broken by the echo of the dawn drums. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our father offered comfort with his standard noncommittal phrases, reminding Penny that there were two sides to every coin and that it's always darkest before the dawn. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We left the movie house at dawn and walked to the port. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was available in any market, at any hour, from dawn until midnight. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And inside the hospital, there’s a different kind of dawn, a rustling of covers, a clearing of the eyes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had suffered a concussion but gradually regained consciousness through the dawn and staggered about half-blinded into the open, with no more sense of direction than an insect rushing at flame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

City buses and trolleys circulated from morning till night, swelling with riders before the orange and pink of dawn, as employees punching out from the graveyard shift met early birds just starting their day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Send back for them. But hurry. I want to be gone before dawn.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn sky was a pale rosy pink. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The cloudy yellow sandstone of Enchanted Mesa was still smoky blue before dawn, and only a faint hint of yellow light touched the highest point of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it never dawned on me then that another woman was about to come in and take over. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The final day of the Year of the Dog lasted until dawn. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We would have to stay there in the room until the tide went out, until dawn came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They studied the night skies from the mountain- tops and listened to the winds at dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes Wang Lung saw him come creeping home at dawn, panting and spent, and his great knotty shoulders drooping. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He sat alone to await the dawn, and let them sleep a little longer. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked from dawn until seven or eight at night for his sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be away from that area before dawn, since I feared that if I stayed I might run into the wild pigs again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I think they’ll be attacking us at dawn. We ought to be able to stop them for a couple of hours.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the seventh night, Saturday, he guards until dawn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By now the first faint streaks of dawn were appearing in the east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby is empty and there's nobody at the desk to tell me I can't be visiting patients at the crack of dawn. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was dawn when the two horsemen reined in at the hilltop. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a day not unlike thirty others, with many neat holes dug in the dawn hours, seeds dropped in, and water brought from the bright canals. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slow horror was dawning on me through the haze of fear and pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not terrible because of how much of a loser I was, but terrible because it dawned on me exactly why I was so sweaty and my voice wasn’t working.“Are you okay, Ryan Dean?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At dawn, discouraged and afraid after being unable to find a boat ride, they slipped back home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Who would chant every morning at dawn for her? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Swiftly Jason lifted the golden wonder from the tree it hung on, and hurrying back they reached the ship as dawn was breaking. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold, gray trickle of dawn had already begun to seep into the tent. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was twilight: the cold dawn was at hand again, and chill grey mists were about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There I am: the One and Only Ivan, bathed in the pink light of dawn. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But by the time day had dawned and the flock gathering at the entrance woke the Cyclops up, no idea at all had come to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oil for their little slutlamp to light the long gray dusks, the long gray dawns. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Koffi's expression abruptly changed, as though something had just dawned on her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They left the shore at dawn in their skin canoes and did not return until night, towing after them the slain otter. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound, just before dawn, was a night watchman, far away down a lonely street, walking along in the darkness, humming a very strange song.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stumbled and fell through the woods the night long and long before dawn the boy fell and would not get up again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Not long after dawn the Aleuts took down their skin tents and carried them to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My lady," Ser Robar said gently, "pardon, but our time is at an end. We must be back before the dawn breaks." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Just after dawn they drove through the streets of the ghetto in trucks with big speakers on them, yelling at us to come out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Consider the conditions in which, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I knew that darkness would soon be broken before the dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, just before dawn, there is no color to be seen in Le Cirque des Rêves save for their small splashes of scarlet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As I stand there holding onto the counter, it dawns on me that I didn’t have to step over Mango’s bowls to get there. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Just before dawn the ground trembled, and it woke me up.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before dawn, they both understood, the game ended. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was up at dawn and woke everyone with him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And standing there during the blue pastel moments before dawn, Joe harbored feelings he hadn’t had since he was a kid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Let us adjourn. The members of the quest must prepare themselves. Tomorrow at dawn, we send you into the Labyrinth.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but despite all their talk and my resolve to stay awake, we all fell asleep before dawn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

That day, May 21, Mollie had risen close to dawn, a habit ingrained from when her father used to pray every morning to the sun. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me then what a strain it must have been on Mr. Pignati to have trudged all the way down to see the baboon. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They traveled dawn to dusk, past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"His Grace works late into the night and is up again before dawn. The man has far too much to do to be asleep at this hour." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I woke at dawn as usual, moved my blanket and sleeping bag to the cave, and ate the rest of the fish for breakfast—cold, but cooked, not so bad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before dawn Mrs. Ortiz awakened me from a deep sleep, hugged me against her pillow-soft chest that had a lavender scent, and whispered, “Don’t forget us!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Here the Company decided to stay and await the dawn: it was useless to attempt to move further by night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It dawned on Leo that the guy had been talking to himself. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing like a Biafran woman in a forest market at dawn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then we went out into the first light of dawn to catch the ponies from the fields where they grazed during the night. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The outlines of the huts are upon us in the dawn like a dark, deep sleep. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the pinging of wind chimes at dawn on the Gulf of Mexico combined with the sound of ocean waves against the shore. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She set off before dawn the next morning, her heart full of sadness, wondering whether she would ever be able to carry the calabashes all the way back from the river. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He stood and watched the rainy dawn, and he knew he would find her again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve almost given up when I’m waved down by a young man in jeans, a jacket, and a cap on my way home from work one morning at dawn. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose each morning, the fifteen roosters quit heralding dawn and started their mortal combat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn or my appeal would still be there. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of his life, the mules would be more or less dragging him across the field from shortly after dawn till evening, sometimes six days a week during planting season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I am the fire that bums against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And so, an hour before dawn, I crouched in shadows at the rocky sea-wall, foot of the giants’ work. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would be in the best position to take advantage of it? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Gradually it dawned on him that Lee was worried for him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, though, and with enormous relief, they communicated with one another on the docks at dawn. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dawn when he remembered Luna, alone in a cell in Azkaban, surrounded by dementors, and he suddenly felt ashamed of himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on me to wonder, How in the world would he get American cigarettes in a country where you can’t even buy toilet paper? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roosters were crowing and the dawn was not far off. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could only be an hour or so from dawn, yet it was pitch-black. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the light dawned in the morning, they were like a company of ghosts, their faces drained and pale with strain, their beards and hair white with snow and salt spray. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was dawn but not yet day when Thor, hungrier, angrier, and still sleepless, resolved to strike one final blow that would silence the snoring forever. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The moon moved from one window to the other, and as dawn came, the thing scurried off, climbing quickly down the foot of the bed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning we were to leave, she was up before dawn, a greedy smile on her face as if she were about to take a big bite of something tasty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn three lords of Stormhold rode down the craggy mountain road in a coach pulled by six black horses. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window he sees that dawn is creeping into the sky, only a handful of stars still visible, the shapes of the surrounding pines and cabins growing distinct. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked down at my mom and dad, it dawned on me that a house doesn't make a home without the people who live inside it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the material P. D. had placed on the two bed tables fascinated me so that I studied it and made notes without sleeping until dawn. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that perhaps she had offered too much information was only now dawning on her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were bloodred blossoms, and their floral manes were the luminous pink of dawn. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We had left home in the gray of dawn, and we had all been quiet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As morning approached, the wolves began to melt away, and when dawn finally broke and there was light enough to see beyond their campfire, there was no sign of them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up at dawn covered from head to toe in a living fur blanket. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As though back onshore, all of France is left to bite its fingernails and flee and stumble and weep and wake to a numb, gray dawn, unable to believe what is happening. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One morning at dawn, I’m in the dark bus, bumping down the steep, dusty dirt road to Otavalo. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Previous failures will mean that your brother will work extra shifts and come home at dawn so that he doesn't have to see you anymore. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I drift away from the fire to find a place to throw down my sleeping bag, the first faint smear of dawn is already bleaching the rim of the northeastern sky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The messenger of Mordor. The storm is coming. The Nazgûl have crossed the River! Ride, ride! Wait not for the dawn! Let not the swift wait for the slow! Ride!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was semidark, not long before dawn, and planes were regularly taking off and landing, their landing lights sweeping the runways, or their wing and tail lights blinking in the sky. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voyage took all of one day, from dawn until night. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The companions took turns watching the cottage and it was not until almost dawn that the candle finally winked out. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When it was ordered that the soldiers should bathe in saltwater twice daily to fend off disease, I saw a regiment walk into the sea at dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Why did he—?” He paused, as though something was dawning on him; then his expression contorted with rage. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His first thought was that he must’ve gotten up earlier than usual, that dawn was still an hour away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The little birds called out repeatedly in the cold dawn air, and all of a sudden Omakayas heard something new in their voices. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was just turning dawn as they left the house. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the stars are receding, and he can see the first light of dawn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The dawn came slowly, so slowly and pausingly that it was impossible to determine when it really had dawned, as it does during the summer months. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cold hour before dawn, the bull terrier woke, then staggered painfully to his feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a place near my family and I would be at work by dawn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just like that, it dawns on me: My mother is speaking to Mrs. Washburn in code. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It’s almost dawn, the light outside is just beginning to tinge grey, and the rain of the last several days is still battering against the window. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood, side by side, four little sisters, holding our weapons at our sides ready to defend our baby sister as we watched him disappear into a new dawn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The bank building across the street was very pale in the dawn. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was still fog when they came into the open, but it had begun to drift and there was a gray dawn just beginning to break. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

There were no footsteps in the snow to say her pack had been there and she knew the Arctic dawn had tricked her eyes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, all day long, and at midnight, Phineas always had a steady and formidable flow of usable energy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Errhg,” said Pinch as she stepped over him and out into the fresh dawn world. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The next thing Sam knew, a rooster was crowing to the dawn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then Charlie snuck out of the tree house and didn’t come back until dawn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One hot dawn they both woke up in alarm at an urgent knocking on the street door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The moment they had dawned, he was a creature from Edgar Allan Poe. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think if I had told Mrs. Baker, she would have said that it was a miracle, that all dawns were miracles—miracles being much on her mind lately, as you can understand. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As dawn came, the black sky turned gray, then clouded over, and it began to drizzle. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

By dawn, people’s faces were covered with white spots of frostbite and their hands were bleeding. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And when the bleak dawn broke over an empty horizon, Dany knew that he was truly lost to her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It just dawned on me all of a sudden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided I would climb to the main deck and catch the dawn. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had gotten up before dawn and made coffee and turned the radio on, just to make sure it was working. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the wan light that might have been evening and might have been dawn I contemplated the clean amber liquid. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In his dawn tours, Burnham faced a hard pale world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Now, just before dawn, the officers start moving in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

An interminable dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was walking along a mountain road in the cool blue light of dawn. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After her first sunburn, Tally stuck a sunblock patch onto her skin every morning at dawn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At dawn Van Helsing hypnotised me; he says I answered “darkness, creaking wood and roaring water,” so the river is changing as they ascend. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Your phone voice always sounds like it’s the break of dawn, like you’re just waking up, she says playfully. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

And it dawns on me that Garrett just had that burst of energy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gold or chartreuse, or pink as the dawn sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By dawn the dwarf’s legs were aching and his cheeks were chafed and raw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So that last summer, before the war, he got up before dawn and rode the bay mare south to the spring in the narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They entered the dairy, and at dawn the milk was sour and full of minuscule cadavers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouldn’t emerge until dawn, especially since I spiked her tea with kheb leaf—a scentless, tasteless herb Pop used to help patients rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At dawn, the sunlight went straight up in a hazy column. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They brought all the prisoners into the courtyard at dawn and forced them to watch, because this was also a personal matter between the colonel and his prisoner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, sleepless at dawn, she had watched from the window of her cubicle and seen four Products, tucked into baskets, loaded into a two-wheeled cart attached to the back of a bicycle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It's dawn and the birds have come alive, chasing each other from maple to pine and back to maple again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But we must beware of overconfidence—we have had false dawns before! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day, at dawn, we were driven out of the barrack. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he leaves at dawn, I sit outside and smoke a dry tobacco leaf. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Before dawn, men rose to exercise the horses, polish weapons, or move out with bows in search of deer. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn on the first of May, a young woman approached me. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At dawn, when the stars were still in the sky, we began our preparations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when some older men tipped their cowboy hats, mumbling, “Buenos dias, como le ha ido, amigo?” it suddenly dawned on Herbie that maybe these people he had come to help spoke Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sisters children picked them today at dawn near Adada lake.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after dawn, while I was thinking of this strange place and what it would look like, the canoe began to leak again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dobby coming to work here, I mean. The other elves will see how happy he is, being free, and slowly it’ll dawn on them that they want that too!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall came back at dawn, to tell them that he had again escaped. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The cool pulse of dawn was beginning to give way to the beating heat of midmorning when the two curacas arrived, as expected. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The riders were not, however, content merely to wait for the dawn and let their enemies rest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Matthew and Mark stayed out of school to help Dad bring the crops in, the three of them working some days from dawn until midnight. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We Marines always began our battles at dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Lady Stark," Lucas said when he saw her, "Mollen says it is to be battle at dawn." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And just after dawn, guess who paid me a visit? Four deer. They practically knocked on the door.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Where you see smoke, you find fire, Country. Don’t worry. The day of our liberty will soon dawn. This country is going to be free, and you and me with it.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

You may see the first glimmer of dawn upon the golden roof of the house of Eorl. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

About seven thousand years elapsed between the dawn of the Middle Eastern Neolithic and the establishment of Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Vaguely, it dawned on me that he wasn’t speaking in Yiddish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It dawns on me that he could be an old man just pretending to be a fourteen-year-old kid. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They start well before dawn—around 5 A.M. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Turns out it was the night of the massacre when Trujillo had decreed that all black Haitians on our side of the island would be executed by dawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Beneath this colossal fortress, fires glared and furnaces smoked in the darkness of early dawn, and from many miles away Ruta Skadi heard the clang of hammers and the pounding of great mills. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before dawn he felt her breathing close to his face, and when he opened his eyes, she was smiling at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They flew right through the night and arrived in England just as dawn was breaking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Helene kneels, offering her sword, repeating the vow, her voice singing out across the field as clearly as a bell at dawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure whether it’s somewhere around midnight, or closer to dawn. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could tell that it was almost dawn by the stillness and the quality of the cold, flat light beyond the canvas ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yet awareness of the fact that insects possess an effective counterweapon to aggressive chemical attack seems to have dawned slowly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His voice vibrated through my body as the realization dawned on me—Nabila had played me again. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The dawn drums thunder out and begin listing the names of the dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The blackness of the sky began to lighten and an old peddler came out of a doorway, the creaking of his cart echoing in the silence of the upcoming dawn. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hacking moved to Beaver Corners, dawn of the 26th. Go to church. Bate.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dawn when Robin felt himself lifted onto Brother Luke’s back, for he had fallen asleep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He wakes before dawn and finds Jutta asleep in her cot in the girls’ dormitory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We cleaned up our camp at dawn, folded the linens and returned them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stars wheeled around them, and faded and vanished as the dawn seeped up from the east. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was awake before dawn, with Pantalaimon shivering at her breast, and she got up to walk about and warm herself up as the gray light seeped into the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But then it dawned on me that she wasn’t missing the occasion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day dawned, and already the time of youth was fleeing the house which the three giants of my dreams had built on the hill of juniper tree and yucca and mesquite bush. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the Halfhand slept, Jon sat with his back to the cave wall, listening to the water and waiting for the dawn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He is later than he’d wanted to be, though dawn is some time away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And so I spent my nights waiting for that dawn. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their flight is at dawn and so they must leave in darkness, driving through streets so empty they are unrecognizable, a tram with its small single headlight the only other thing that moves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A haze blotted out the stars, and when dawn came, the sky turned a milky pink. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two old people led me in exercises that began at dawn and ended at sunset so that I could watch our shadows grow and shrink and grow again, rooted to the earth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared at dawn on Sunday like a prince in a fairy tale, riding a horse with silver stirrups and a velvet blanket, and he left town after mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At dawn, when everything had been moved, I went back to the house for the last time. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn we find two overturned carts in the road, grains of wheat spilled everywhere and a few empty baskets rolled on their sides across the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He walked out into the smoky brightness of River Street which was beginning to shake off the inertia of the dawn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Castle Black seemed a bleak and forlorn place in the pale dawn light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Come dawn, he dressed and went outside, to walk along the outer walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

January dawned frosty and gray and stayed that way, and Alyce stayed, too. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if understanding had dawned, even for her, that the end was here. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I reached the town at dawn, and encouraged by the returning light, and coffee in a thick white cup, I accepted a hopeful interpretation. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the twenty-sixth of June, an hour before dawn, Albert makes six ham sandwiches and wraps them in foil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So the days slipped away, as each morning dawned bright and fair, and each evening followed cool and clear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they only emerged through the long grass at dawn. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain began at dawn, abruptly, as if the sky had turned to water. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Up before dawn, she would use anybody available, even the children. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Green dawns gave way to orange dusks in half a heartbeat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn a taxi is called to ferry them through deserted Cambridge streets, up Massachusetts Avenue and past Harvard Yard, to Mount Auburn Hospital. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our second night out, two hours before dawn, I was steering from the flying bridge when the head of a mule deer materialized in the spotlight's glare. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until dawn, when the stars went out one by one, and the grey light changed the sculptured figures back into immobility. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he fell back to sleep, it was almost dawn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We stood there outside for a moment, blinking in the dawn. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As dawn emerges in streaks of yellow, he finally falls asleep, his head on Dutchy’s curled leg and his feet in my lap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that this was what it was like to be dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In a few hours, the light of dawn would illuminate the manhunters and make them into perfect, visible targets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert was persistent about announcing dawn’s first—and very early—light. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They liked that I went all the way to the market every day before dawn to get them a taste of the outside country, away from their protected bourgeois life. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When he woke, now, there was an enormous moon, so that at first, he thought it was already dawn, and that he had missed his chance. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It’s odd but when it first dawned on me the tape wasn’t there any more, my main thought was that I mustn’t give away how panicked I was. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They returned at dawn with news of the world. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early dawn light, I tried to distinguish between the living and those who were no more. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit and talk until just before dawn, and he leaves her only when the circus is about to close. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The day of the coup the sun was shining, a rare event in the timid spring that was just dawning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time that exercise was terminated, day had fully dawned. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But instead I sit, as motionless as the rock beneath me, while the dawn begins to lighten the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We managed to catch one,” said Gawaine, the wonder of their achievement beginning to dawn on him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mossflower country shimmered gently in a peaceful haze, bathing delicately at each dew-laden dawn, blossoming through high sunny noontides, languishing in each crimson-tinted twilight that heralded the soft darkness of June nights. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the cornets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I finally drifted off close to dawn, still hunched over from the pain in my gut. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gardening at dawn in a thin shift and with loose hair was nearly fun. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Call,” I would say, watching dawn break crimson over the Chesapeake Bay, “I hope I have a sky like this the day I get married.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward dawn, I saw a chap come out, look both ways, and stand at one end of the veranda to urinate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d woken up at the crack of dawn, bleary-eyed and disoriented, my head crowded with thoughts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day of the actual competition dawns bright and chilly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was dark on the road, the dawn barely stirring on the hills beyond. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It dawned on them that the camp needed to be entirely “self-sufficient.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He went below in the darkness, drank two glasses of water to celebrate finding land, then went back up to the cockpit to sit and wait for dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly slept, and when dawn came, I knew I needed to make a plan. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn the rain began: fine misty rain blowing cold and clean in soft mountain air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fully dawned on me, I would never see Yakov again after this. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And at dawn, as light spread across the sea, my first glance was toward the little harbor of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mama said this, it dawned on me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her—the light which, showing the way, forbids it. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, the first day of May, Maeve joined me at dawn. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the deep gray of a motel room dawn, with my imagination in overdrive, it was difficult not to confuse her with the dead girl in the dream. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I made special note of which two trees the dawning sun appeared between and set my sights for the opposite direction. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The messenger, bored and scratching at an insect bite on his neck, came to Kira in the dawn and told her that she must report to the Council of Guardians at late morning. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about time you got here! I was just about ready to start talking to myself—I’ve been reading since before dawn.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And because Momly gets to Ma's house at the butt crack of dawn, Ma goes to bed dumb early on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays so she can be up and ready to go. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The warmth of her body was comforting, for the dawn air was cool and slightly damp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to dawn on him that what he had done might be considered unusual. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an author wanted a character to be awoken at dawn, Colin figured the author just used the literary tradition of the crowing rooster to make it happen. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The police radio was quiet as well; not much happened in Coconut Cove before dawn. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At every dawn and every dusk they saw the eagle soaring between the peaks, no more than a speck in the vastness of the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He spied the raven, dark in the dawn sky, and turned briskly toward the maze of shelves at the far end of the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on him: the way he had felt back then, for a few days, was probably how Annabeth had felt for the six months he had been missing with amnesia. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I reach the sidewalk something else dawns on me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Quietly, between midnight and dawn, a dozen police cars flanked a hearse that went the twenty-odd blocks farther uptown to the Faith Temple. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As dawn approached, we finished up this work and prepared for our next experiment. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the meaning of the strange sailing time dawned on the crew. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that those things don’t seem to have the weight, the measureless beauty of countless sunsets and dawns, the simple grace and clear glory of nature. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was close to dawn when they first saw the Armada. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beowulf smiled, and gazed to the east where dawn was in the wind. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sleep was restless, and when dawn came I saw that Charley had not moved. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would go very early, even before they did, he would go at dawn. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was dusk, or dawn, I’m not quite sure, but there was someone else there with me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old photograph, fading away like a dawn that leaves you little by little, and it was of a child. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the light dawning in his eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scant dawn glowed through the tiny window. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The red priest rested by day but kept vigil through the dark horns, to tend his sacred flames so that the sun might return to them at dawn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She thought about climbing a tree to wait for dawn, but something caught her eye in the darkness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the children grew, Ethel woke them at dawn to clean the house, cook, shop, and do the laundry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She even asked Brother Quang to bless the house right after midnight, so I couldn’t beat him to it by touching my big toe to the carpet before dawn. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And he kept on talking until dawn, so tired that the big feet would often almost stumble in their pacing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was still fierce—strong enough to knock me down several times— but it was a bright, clear dawn, and the visibility was perfect. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of King Joffrey's name day dawned bright and windy, with the long tail of the great comet visible through the high scuttling clouds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By then I was just barely listening, because it had dawned on me that our time of mourning must be about over. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He’s up at daylight because no one should sleep beyond the dawn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays, Baba woke me up at dawn. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of the demonstration the sky dawned pale blue, with easy rolling clouds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Helene and I are bleary-eyed and exhausted the next morning, but we start out well before dawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She is woken just after dawn by the sound of rain beating against the bedroom window, pelting it with such ferocity that she almost expects the glass to shatter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life she wasn’t burdened with chores from dawn to dusk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this late hour there are no patrons lingering in this particular tent, and it is unlikely that any other visitors to the circus will stumble upon it in the remaining hours before dawn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We were both silent for a while; and as I looked towards the window I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus’s procedure for measuring parallax ideally involved comparing the apparent position of a celestial object soon after dark with its apparent position not long before dawn, thus maximizing the parallax to be measured. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I think of another dawn, the one after my grandparents were killed and Darin was taken. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Matt did not sleep the night after Jethro’s return from Newton; and the next morning he was up at dawn moving aimlessly about the cabin and out around the dooryard and woodlot. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dawn Dessie was awakened by the chill of pain that came to her at intervals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They started at dawn, pulling up the old, rotten wood and digging new, deeper holes to anchor the posts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not until the grey of dawn did he allow them to halt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So important that as it dawns fully I have to stand up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Although it was just after dawn, several people were already waiting outside the small store. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In summertime this event occurred around sunrise; in the winter, of course, it happened well before dawn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still a long dark hour till dawn. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cooler in the park at dawn now. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two old folks were so pleased and excited by the success of their hospitality that only very slowly a strange thing dawned upon them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“G.’s note?” he says, something dawning in his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Everything was faded and silent in the dawn—dirty teacups, unmade bed, snowflakes floating past the window with an airy, dangerous calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even when Buttercup was awake again, at dawn, with fifty-seven days to go till her marriage, she could not stop gasping. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was past dawn by the time Sefia and Archer were let out of the great cabin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When dawn finally arrived, he hiked to the opening of the bay instead of going to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Finally, she heard an officer reading the actual order for British troops to march from the city at dawn on December 4 and head for Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realization started to dawn on me, and I closed my eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Matty woke at dawn to find himself still curled next to Kira in the place where they had collapsed together after struggling as far as they could into the evening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

One morning, just as dawn broke and they hurried to find a hiding place for the day, Tidbit cried out in alarm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only with the arrival of pale dawn that he stopped, slumping down under some bushes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I was awake when the picture flickered back on and an announcer said to stand by. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She rose before dawn each day and lifted sacks weighted with stones many times with each arm before she put the kettle over the fire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The train pulled out before dawn on a journey of about 174 miles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Day after day passed, and Edward was aware of time passing only because every morning he could hear Ernest performing his dawn ritual, cackling and crowing about being king of the world. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said with unconscious simplicity, in a different voice, and with the naïveté of a child: “That’s quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’m just about to text back when it dawns on me that the person I’m texting could be a mass murderer or something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It dawned on him—finally—that she wasn’t in a romantic mood and probably wouldn’t be for a while. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A light rain had fallen just before dawn, soothing my leaves, if not my mood. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then a horn blast bursts through the silent dawn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The great day dawned misty and over-cast but the glass was high and we had no fears. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And like the spirits who roam the night, I return before the dawn. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They will not give way now for dusk or dawn, until Théoden is taken, or they themselves are slain.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

December 12, the day of the first ball, dawned clear and mild, but by noon clouds had gathered and the wind had become sharp and cold. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the east the sky was smoky gray, and I was glad for the approaching dawn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

With the first glints of dawn the caretaker appeared again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn on Thanksgiving Day, Papa, Roberto, and I drove in our Carcachita for miles, looking for cotton fields that were being picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the cop moves on to Donna, who has, unbeknownst to all of us, a fake ID, it begins to dawn on me that I am completely up Claire Creek without a paddle. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

At dawn, they left the school scrubbed, shiny, warm and ready for the daytime janitor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The implications of what he was saying slowly dawned on me, and it was like someone had pulled my heart out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then little by little it dawned on me that the eyes that seemed to bore into my body were in fact gazing through it, wearily indifferent to my slight obstruction of the darkness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Career pack sets off at a run just as dawn begins to break, and birdsong fills the air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Although we had left just after dawn, the sun was hot enough by our arrival to make me wish for a hat. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“When we took off at dawn, a frosty mist shrouded the ground. Below, settlements flashed and trucks moved along roads,” said Zhenya. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it seemed to dawn on her that Mrs. Baylor was asking all these questions because she was worried. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

To Colin's mind, the rooster crowing at dawn was nothing more than a literary and cinematic trope. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Artemis assured us that dawn was coming, but you could’ve fooled me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

That Saturday dawn found them riding to yet another field of crookneck squash. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mama rises shortly after for the dawn prayers, and I also hear Thaya Jaan running the water in the hall bathroom. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was awakened every dawn for prayer by the distant cry of azan, after which she crawled back into bed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

On July 10, 2015, at dawn, a chief and two dozen members of the Osage Nation gathered beneath the windmills for a prayer to Wah’Kon-Tah. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jesper had watched it make slow progress from Ketterdam in the early dawn light, a tiny black dot that grew into a hulking blot on the horizon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Since it always died down when the night was half over, I knew how long I had been traveling and how far away the dawn was. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I AM IN my bed in Windemere, in the early light of dawn. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was no moonlight, and no time to wait for dawn. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The dawn breeze came up from off the sea and the black night turned gray. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming closer to the river, faintly at first, faint as the pale yellow light emerging across the southeast horizon, the sounds gathered intensity from the swelling colors of dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed awake to drive me out to the car barn at four-thirty in the mornings, or to pick me up when I was relieved just before dawn. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No!” whispered Montag, “The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at. dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I took her out at dawn with the other dogs.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early when Amakas movements woke me up the next morning; the room was not yet touched by the lavender rays of dawn. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn, the advancing soldiers could see figures all around them in the half-light, armed men running through the surrounding fields, outpacing the British in their rush to get to Lexington. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors had until dawn to find the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ash woke up, Gwen was still asleep, and the early dawn light was sliding through the gaps in the shutters over the dormer window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said he used to rip the heads off goats with his teeth and fillet blue-eyed babies before dawn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw him in a dream, and . . .” Suddenly a horrible thought dawned on me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotise me at all, and that all I could say was: “dark and quiet.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At last, understanding dawned on Baaz’s face, followed by something else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We're still sitting underneath the pier, but it's probably a couple hours before dawn, and the skyline has already gone dark. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He flopped onto his back, stared up at the branches and the stars above.There wasn’t even the slightest hint of dawn creeping into the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sometime around four in the morning it dawns on me that it’s not just that I’m a wimp. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn they reached the outskirts of Savannah, but they made a wide detour to avoid the populated areas. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the second morning, silflay did not begin until some time after dawn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, close to dawn, the shooting and explosions stopped. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Eurynome her housekeeper, put in: “He and no other? If all we pray for came to pass, not one would live till dawn!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towards dawn, the boys went to their mother’s house where Johnny fell into a troubled sleep. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still there at dawn, sleeping, when the police arrived. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I walked into the forest and kept going until dawn began to brighten the eastern edges of the sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not cloudy, not twilight, not the early minutes of dawn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Blue and white and black and gray and a burst of color at dawn,” the Beast said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I just didn’t know. It never dawned on me that music was like this. I think I was eleven or twelve, and that was that. Music opened the door.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He hated to break the lovely stillness of dawn by using his voice, but he couldn’t think of any other way to locate the mysterious new friend who was nowhere to be seen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She tells me about meeting August—she was seventeen, and it had just dawned on her that the recent spate of bachelors joining her family for dinner were actually being presented as potential husbands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They don’t compare to this empty, sparsely lit road called American Street where only a dog barks and an old man sings before the break of dawn. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was at the mill at dawn the next morning and saw men lifting huge logs with tackle blocks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then the sky opened up, all jagged along the edges, and the light just pourin’ through it, bright as dawn. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The train will be ready before dawn, though it would be better if you could come earlier than that. Leaving can get a bit...complicated.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the next day there came no dawn, and the Grey Company passed on into the darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were lost to mortal sight; but the Dead followed them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The air was coldest at this hour, a couple of hours before dawn. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint glow of dawn showed over the trees and dimmed the stars as Cole started to pull on his tennis shoes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The door that led to the verandah was half open, and the purplish tinge of early dawn trickled into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams, and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Aghast, the two scholars waited for their deaths at dawn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She could not be more than half an hour from the house, and there was still no hint of dawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At dawn we dragged our ships to the lordly water, stowed aboard all our plunder and the slave women in their low hip girdles. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn sky is a smudge of gray flecked with pink, like a picture drawn with two crayons. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The smell of the coking plant coming in under the dawn, the first reliable smell of every day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At dawn the funeral drums begin, and soon after our friends and neighbours come. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn they were all in their hut, peering through a small crack that there was in the wall. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Race day, Saturday, June 16, dawned clear and warm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At dawn I arose and created a long, slow, time-wasting breakfast. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry whiled away the hours until dawn in front of the fire, getting up every now and then to stop Crookshanks from sneaking up the boys’ staircase again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This meant that six days a week, long before dawn he was in his boat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to rest until dawn and then cover the three miles back by evening of the following day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the days he worked, Papi left the house before dawn and sometimes joked that he woke the roosters to sing the barrio awake. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But it’s almost dawn, and I think when there’s light, someone will surely find us. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Around me, people cough and spit in the blue dawn. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Our queen is the embodiment of our land. It has been this way since the dawn of time, and it will be so until our last queen dies.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At dawn Kira could hear the sounds, even from her room on the opposite side of the building, as the people started to gather. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that I was smiling, and I couldn’t stop. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We would get up with them before dawn and come right back here to work, without a full night’s sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it dawned on Stella that he couldn’t read very well! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We had a short circuit last night, and besides that, the guns were booming away until dawn. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That was the last she knew until she heard Fritz give a little honk at dawn. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason it hadn’t dawned on me earlier that I was cooking a very difficult meal for a group of very picky food experts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He gets the orders from customers, tells the farmers what he needs, and they arrive with their trucks at Polyface at dawn on Thursday. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As the enormity of my helplessness dawned on me, my position began to slip. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Taran, his head pillowed on his saddle, his hand on his new sword, was impatient for dawn and eager to resume the journey. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Another gray morning was already dawning when the children left Ida Spavento's house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took a while to get reacquainted with my old habit, but while I scooped up my rice with a spoon, it dawned on me: I am a spork. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I settled in a few feet onshore, held Otto to my chest, and rocked him through his complaining hunger while we waited for the dawn. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on me—that wasn’t mud at all. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see much in the dawn light—the sun was rising behind the house—but with the curtained windows glowing, it looked warm and cozy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Briony wedged herself in, with her back to the books to show them how her sister was positioned, and saw the first mid-blue touches of dawn in the panes of the library’s high windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Speechless at first with surprise, he then looks from me to my son until recognition dawns on him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the darkness just before dawn, they called us to rise. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The old dog was so exhausted that he slept until dawn. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were supposed to start at dawn today, head out to the southern valley and scout for another branch location. A few more weeks of this overcrowding and I might get snippy.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At dawn she hastily took down her tent, hoisted her pack to her back, and stepped onto the frozen river where walking was easier. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but right then it finally dawned on me that Papa had wanted to please Grandpa out of respect and gratitude, not from kowtowing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

C.P. arrived home a couple of hours before dawn to find his wife, Mary, still awake, sitting up in bed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned upon me that they were trying to treat me as an equal, which made it even more impossible for me ever to tell them that I had lied, why I had lied. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1781 a company of Blackfoot stumbled across a Shoshone camp at dawn near the Red Deer River in Alberta. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned it off and listened to the silence of dawn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He would spend hours up there on the rooftop, watching the Levee District’s inhabitants begin their drunken, violent stumble toward dawn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The captain gathers us around the table in the map room at dawn. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, as dawn approached, Bobby went to sleep and Zita awoke a few hours later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonetheless,” the Augur says as we arrive at my room, “you will have it. Your door will be sealed until dawn. No one will disturb you. Not even the Commandant.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When this news reached the city, all who heard it came at dawn. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn breeze brought him hints of the world hidden behind the walls: flowers, dogs, cut grass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on him that they needed a different strategy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rowan was awakened at dawn by a towel hurled at his face. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At dawn, German lookouts spotted Allied ships filling the Normandy coast. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Together the three headed out single file in the gathering dawn. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was already awake—she believed in waking up with the dawn whenever possible—when she heard the bells of a Buddhist monastery chime from her phone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She said softly, “The water broke at dawn.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She walked him to Ninth Avenue, stood with him at dawn, her hair uncombed, her face still thick with sleep, her coat and a pair of boots slipped on over her pajamas. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the next four days, Celaena awoke before dawn to train in her room, using whatever she could to exercise—chairs, the doorway, even her billiards table and cue sticks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"As you will. Ser Robar, give Lady Stark safe escort to this sept . . . but see that she returns to us by dawn." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on her: of course, Frank was embarrassed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He got up, dressed in the pale dawn light, left the dormitory without waking Ron, and went back down to the deserted common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At dawn the villagers on their way to the fields would stand around the fence and look. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, ’tis an eerie feeling to be out in the cheerless dawn, not knowing at what moment an enemy may appear out of the fog,” agreed Brother Luke. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The gorge beside the mill would be too dangerous to navigate in the dark, so he’d sleep there, then make the descent at dawn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The moon had long since disappeared and now the dawn was breaking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of spent hand-flare shells, and prayers at dawn, and the killing of turtles, and the biology of algae, for example. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When dawn finally came—which we were all ready for, let me tell you—every bit of ground around the campsite was wet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Hanneke, stop playing dumb. I'm not the one whose mother is waiting for her at home, worried about curfew. I can have this conversation until dawn or we’re arrested. Whichever you prefer." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the dawn the sun, through the crystal pillars, melted the fog that supported Ylla as she slept. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed and rolled in bed, and at dawn he got up and dressed and crept out of the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hunger was now the ruling instinct in the Labrador and it drove him out to forage in the early dawn. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well after dawn they were still sleeping, undisturbed in a silence deeper than they had ever known. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in the City were oppressed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The tiny crystals disappeared gradually, the way stars did at dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind ran quickly back to the reddish dust of the road that led to Ziavi, the shrieking of the blue turaco birds at dawn, the taste of her mother’s groundnut stew. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for my shivers dawned on me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stop to look at the emptiness beyond the Commandant’s window, miles of whispering dunes, rippling like waves in the dawn wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Slant's eyes were not open; for several steps he walked with them closed—praying, I suppose, or blotting out that dawn, that pitiless approach. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

With the dawn of the industrial era the world became a place of continuous, ever-accelerating change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This day had dawned cold, Chup was out hunting, and she had to brood the eyas. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The morning of the fourth day dawned low and dark. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently they stamp out yards in the valleys where they feed during the dawn and dusk, but many of them climb back to the hemlock grove to hide and sleep for the day. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Tellers invitation, Lawrence and Alvarez flew into Albuquerque, landing before dawn and arriving in Los Alamos at ten in the morning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Crowing roosters and yapping dogs were the only creatures abroad at dawn today. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He led an assault before dawn the following morning. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We know only that in the earliest Greek poets a new point of view dawned, never dreamed of in the world before them, but never to leave the world after them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have risen before dawn to have the fire so hot by now. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall speak with each of you later and at more length. Now I have matters to discuss with Coll. At dawn tomorrow be ready to ride for Annuvin.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, our beloved Elf King—may he reign forever and so forth—will meet upon a nearby field with Ghohg the Evil One. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At dawn I ate my ration of bread, returned to the barracks, and fell exhausted into my bunk. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Magdalys and Mapper rose before dawn with the rest of the newly named Dactyl Hill Squad. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Who would—” But realization dawned on him almost immediately. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as dawn lightened the sky, we moved on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness became watered with light, with silver radiance, and then it was an eerie sight which dawned upon his vision. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed awake growing angrier about this; by dawn she had begun to feel murderous. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the early shifts at the Stock Yard ended midafternoon, those who’d arrived at the crack of dawn prepared to make their way home as usual. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Monday went by like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the bridge top in the cold dawn, watching Leon climb down from the tree and Jon Wood grab the iron bow and climb toward him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was after he said this that it suddenly dawned on me, with a real chill, where this was leading. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working from dawn to well after dark, and she had cooked a fresh meal at home as well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the first light of dawn, I poured the stream of black liquid into a small bottle and stopped it with a ball of wax. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Joaquin waited for her to continue, and when she didn’t, the realization dawned on him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“But you will, when the time comes. A new dawn is approaching, but you are very clever, very brave. You will not be blinded by his light.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

To make sure no one had a nightmare, all the beds in the House of Wong stood empty until the skies were lit by the dawn and the danger passed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She works for free, from dawn until late at night, seven days a week, to obtain money for food, units of blood, medicine, prostheses, and a scrap of land to build a permanent shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It’s full of fertilizer and I know he’ll need it at dawn tomorrow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At dawn the next day she returned to her mountain and the nest box on the steel pole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before dawn was in the sky he woke and rose. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on me what he really meant. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And so we remained till the red of the dawn to fall through the snow-gloom. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He has to get up before dawn to be painting by 6:30 a.m. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When she crawled back into her room at dawn, someone was waiting there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They taught me the tongues of the Greeks and the Romans and opened for me the colonnaded vistas of those long-forgotten empires, in this, the dawning of a new empire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And maybe the dawns will be less harrowing in that country for which I shortly depart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn one morning late in May came the lookout’s, “Land ho-o-o-o-o!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent nights awake shaking with fever, fighting against delirium, waiting until the house shook with the return of José Arcadio at dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn I heard her sigh loudly three times and finally grow quiet. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cultures that believe that the route to success lies in rising before dawn 360 days a year are scarcely going to give their children three straight months off in the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That night the sky cleared, and at dawn she crawled out of her skins. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They, too, clapped, just as they had done the night the Patriarch had given her an American name, at the dawn of the new year. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the magic of dawn had gone now, and in its place was a gray early morning, distinguished only by a summers mist which was sure to burn off soon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had woken the whole house at dawn, screaming, after he had realized that Ida had locked him into the room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Amber Alert, it's dawning on me, is a missing child notice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly it dawned on me that if Grandpa Blakeslee died and left Miss Love the store, she really could marry again and let her new husband run it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There is a moment of each dawn that appears disguised as dusk, Lourdes decides, and for that brief moment the day neither begins nor ends. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It now dawned on Harry, however, that the cup of cold tea on which he had trodden that morning might not have been a booby trap at all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was more than an hour and a half past dawn and the running lights had been left on. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The following dawn the sky was pink and orange with May’s morning light. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Before dawn were we summoned; we went to our companies and assembled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It's not yet dawn, but my stinging eyes can see it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most–99.99 percent–are no longer around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She worked from dawn to dusk, worked in the rain, in the heat of the sun. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely he did not have to wake up before dawn to fetch water. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first rays of dawn were sliding over the garden wall, and the window was empty. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When dawn came, she dressed and went into the sitting room. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The world had already gone to shades of gray as dawn approached, but now colors are starting to bloom. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

‘We don’t have time for chitchat. The Romans are attacking at dawn and I’ve got to -’ ‘We know,’ Will said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When Maniac slipped silently from the house at dawn — the only way he’d ever manage to get away — March pounced with cold and nasty paws. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

John saw that the sun was beginning to stir, somewhere in the sky; the silence of the dawn would soon give way to the trumpets of the morning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They stayed on the roof until dawn broke, and Piper started to believe they could have a fresh start. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ides of March dawned on Friday with a green and brown sky, the color of the water in a dying pond. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As I whisper my discovery of Snow’s plan to break me, it dawns on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Across the stalk land, into the pine woods, into the climbing, brightening glow of the dawn, the boy followed the dog, whose anxious pace slowed from age as they went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s cough rose querulously out of the dusky dawn and he said to her, “Take to my father first a bowl of hot water for his lungs.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

At this they both turn, Frank from the stove top and Byrd with a look on her face like it all just dawned on her, everything all at once. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn on Sunday, May 12, Stuart’s oxygen ran out. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it was still a long time until dawn, and I didn’t like the look of my sister. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew it was spring because that morning at dawn the sky was filled with flocks of darting birds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some time between midnight and dawn I was awakened by strangers, informed that I was under arrest, and taken by an armed guard to the Kundershaden Prison. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on overturned planters among climbing roses, a kerosene lantern on the grass between us, dawn not yet broken beyond the glass walls. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Leah came in the window before dawn and whispered to Mother awhile, but I don’t think she slept either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the headlines kept reminding us, we were fast approaching the dawn of a new millennium. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My dawn visits up the Commons had become the most ordinary of errands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn the next day she looked about. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now, however, when she had nothing to do and would go about with José Arcadio riding on her hip from dawn to dusk, this bad kind of time compelled her to leave things half done. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘It is a red dawn. Strange things await us by the eaves of the forest. Good or evil, I do not know; but we are called. Awake!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We passed down the Rappahannock, and at dawn, came to the Bay. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Light and dark groped for each other in the birthing of dawn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as dawn had begun to silver the sky, he’d fallen into a shivering sleep. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Another year ticked by in a single hour, and dawn waiting beyond the far bank of the river. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, waking as the train pulled through a city at dawn, Lefty had mistaken a pillared bank for the Parthenon, and thought he was in Athens again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She wriggled out when dawn was near and rubbed her body to get the stiffness out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” the witch whispered when dawn came, rosy and blithe. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the short chill of dawn the four boys gathered round the black smudge where the fire had been, while Ralph knelt and blew. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sword gleamed silvery grey in the dawn light, almost new. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the gray light of dawn the trio continued down the side of the road until they reached a point where it took a right-angled turn. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how long the knocking’s been going on when it dawns on me that the noise I’m hearing isn’t coming from my sewing machine acting up but from someone at the window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It suddenly dawned on me that if Michael were still around, Susan probably wouldn’t be “going out” with him anymore. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

What had taken Dunwing a single glance to recognize had finally dawned on the King. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The roosters were crowing in the chickenhouse and a gray rim of dawn lay on the east. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, he leaves, hoping to catch a bus back to the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It's slowly dawning on me that I'm not the object of everyone's attention. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It began to dawn on me that it was the kind of cheese catfish consider a delicacy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn the Frog should be well out of sight of land, well out to sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day’s dawn found us entering into Norfolk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were also many rabbits—large, gray ones with a mix of reddish fur, smaller fast gray ones that he saw only at dawn. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sky began to pale into dawn, Zeitoun realized he had not slept at all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I sat up, heart pounding, slapping at the blank wall for the light switch until the terrible realization dawned on me that I was not in my own room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wind blew hard and few bales of otter skins lay on the shore so probably the ship would leave at dawn. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday I got up before dawn, sat in my closet, and wrote some remarks to give at Dismay’s Life Service. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I drink three cups of tea and set out alone for the last person I must speak with before the banquet, my sister Vivienne. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By dawn, the bonfire had dwindled to a smoldering hill of ash. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Without speaking, the two left camp and hiked to the stream in the shadowy dawn. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was yet night, but July nights are short: soon after midnight, dawn comes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the still shadows of the false dawn the companions hastened to the chicken roost where Eilonwy ventured to light her bauble. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Too late, awareness and fear dawned in the giant’s face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They have risen before dawn and walked in the dark to witness this annual drama. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As the presidential election year of 1956 dawned, international pressure on the White House intensified. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the first blue light of dawn Matt forced himself to get up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up properly it was dawn and the sky was all orange and blue and purple and I could hear birds singing, which is called the Dawn Chorus. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the next day dawned on the blackened towers of the city, Selitos found he could move. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After another long silence, Carolina felt compelled to say: “Well, it’s always darkest before the dawn.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the nation, Black Easter dawned as a day of great mourning; to John Wilkes Booth, it began as a day of salvation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am woken at dawn by my sister shaking me, shouting my name, Valeria. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If it snowed, he would be up at dawn to trek over to his parents’ house and shovel out their driveway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The fire dance kept up till nearly dawn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I spent the night walking through Central Park, not coming home until dawn. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sky was pitch-black, but by now Tally could read the stars well enough to know that the first notes of dawn were only a couple of hours away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham’s mandatory muster of key men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He looked down at her for a moment, the light of dawn seeking out the color of his eyes and making him look almost human. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rim of dawn on the mountain-tops, but no light had penetrated into the cup of the ranch yet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does that mean he will get sleepy at dusk and wake up at dawn? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flicker of recognition dawned in his face. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘They are all going to London until this insurrection, as they call it, is over. The Unicorn leaves at dawn tomorrow. Gage has given permission.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They entered noiselessly before dawn, with two pieces of light artillery drawn by mules, and they set up their headquarters in the school. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Cole guessed that dawn was no more than an hour away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The first light of dawn found Otto and me sitting on the front step, staring into the jungle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its beauty did little to lighten her mood; it seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the answer dawned on Sam: the topmost chamber was reached by a trap-door in the roof of the passage. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I saw the slave-weavers of the Sudan; the child-warriors of the Moroccan sultan; Efik musketeers scampering at dawn into Ibo villages while women screamed alarm; forest wars declared simply to render up captives for sale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that I had more to work with than usual. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I waited until the tide was low, which was close to dawn, and filled a basket with sea water and abalones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will auction you at dawn on Monday. I’ll sell your demon sister, too, to the most cruel, heartless master I can find, the Devil himself if he wants.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fumbled for so long that Lord Roke thought the dawn would break before he got the catch undone, but finally he lifted the locket gently away and stood up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At dawn, the sheep began to eat; by 9:00 A.M., when Lavadie discovered what had happened, three of the sheep were already lying on their sides, dead and bloated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder for a moment why I didn’t just set my alarm at home and come over at dawn, but I know I have to do this right. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s been raining since dawn, and so Minerva’s plan of walking to the church on foot like Patria did and seeing all the campesinos she’s known since she was a little girl is out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comprehension dawned slowly on Colonel Cathcart; when it came, he was struck dumb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At first I am at a loss to understand, then it suddenly dawns on me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after I arrived, starting at dawn and ending well into the evening, I followed Farmer on his rounds, for the first of many times. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I looked out across the flat, dusty land and could see the slow glow of blue light over the horizon, the first sign of dawn. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Javier arrives before dawn in an unraveling tweed suit, his face sunken to flat angles, and collapses on his mother’s back porch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dawn he awakened, looked out through the windshield and saw that the water was already retreating down the bouldery flat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way she threw things in the boxes, though, it began to dawn on everybody that, underneath the smile, Miss Love was boiling mad. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It felt better than anything had ever hurt. park Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

By dawn it was obvious that the men were in for another storm, and by noon the gale had blown up into hurricane force, lashing them with snow, rain, hail, and sleet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Before dawn, he withdrew the last probe from the vacuum tank, scraped the flecks of Aquadag into a bottle, and deposited it at the Rat House for Ruben. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Davos would not be able to return to the Merry Midwife till dawn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He woke at dawn to the sound of falling rain and the timid knock of a serving man anxious to learn how his new lord would break his fast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At dawn one February morning, when they were in the Indian Ocean, the lookout’s cry gave warning, “Sail ho-o-o-o-o-o! On the starboard bow!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the dawn of the nineteenth of April. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn the next day Leon Longbridge wedged the .wooden scrape into a fork in the sycamore tree and wired it in place. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Phoebe always had a question, even at the crack of dawn. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

And whenever they stopped their chanting Wang Lung poured silver into their hands and they took breath again and chanted and did not cease until dawn rose. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Soon it became obvious that I could only do three or maybe four lawns a day if I worked from just before dawn to just after dark. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Often Bran woke shivering hours before the dawn, listening to the sound of them calling to one another in the distance as he waited for the sun to rise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When we woke in the morning, dawn was only just leaking in but he had already gone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But he was awake—suddenly—about an hour later, just before dawn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour past dawn on the following Monday, a thick, grandly muscled woman arrived on the back steps of the Meecham house and waited for the sleeping house to stir. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that the children of the forest had carved the faces in the trees during the dawn centuries before the coming of the First Men across the narrow sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Right then, I feel as though he sees everything—every hope of my heart, every stray thought I’ve had before falling into an exhausted sleep each dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The jubilatory sounds died away to an eerie silence as the rats toiled raggedly off down the road, raising a column of dust in the early dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t spoken more than four words to me in as many days, but since she’s been out in the greenhouse from dawn until dusk, it has been easy to avoid me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We catch this young girl at the dawn of her selfhood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped out into darkness and the chill of dawn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And, most telling of all: “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He’d lost the argument about driving and was pouting out the back window when it dawned on him to shout for his brother to stop: “Wait, wait, Mama must be having the baby!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey woke herself up early the next morning, before the first gray signals of dawn, when the air outside lay black over fields, marshes and the glistening water she could just see from her window. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk through the dawn, passing crops and meadows of wildflowers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He coughs and stands shakily, then looks down at Tristas’s body with dawning shock. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Timothy cooked a small fish, a pompano, that he’d speared at dawn down on the reef. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The understanding was beginning to dawn on Will and Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a night of struggling in my head, the purple light of dawn comes, and I’ve made a decision. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on Ishmael, in the coast guard record room, that perhaps something pertinent to Kabuo’s case could be found right here among these files. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I waited until I thought the coast was really clear, and then one Sunday, without telling anyone, I got up hours before dawn and took off for the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I read on into the night; then, toward dawn, I swung from bed and inserted paper into the typewriter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He was with the Lexington men. They stood up at dawn and the regulars killed quite a few of them.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel is young as the dawn—the perpetual dawn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been at the bakery at the crack of dawn to trade for it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Each morning I would rise at dawn, put my lunch in my pack, and drive over the Connecticut River to Vermont. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But neither prayer nor dawn had brought him certainty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Another squadron of German bombers appears on the crimson horizon, lit by the burning trees like a false dawn. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then again, Gaia hadn’t been awake since the dawn of humanity. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I noticed the loss of the raft at dawn. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If one forbade her to sleep beyond dawn, another insisted she remain in bed till noon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I do not go up on the roof at dawn because I’m not leaving my bedroom until Brian’s back at boarding school three thousand miles from here. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By dawn, all that's left of the vigil is a pile of flowers, some wrapped in bundles, some tossed alone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A golden dawn was breaking in the east, but behind Lady Melisandre’s window in the King’s Tower a reddish light still flickered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two hours before dawn, he awoke one of the boys who slept in his tent, and asked him to show him where Fatima lived. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They set out at gray dawn, driving between the grape trees, which hunched like dwarfs in the fields. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked on, beginning to tire, beginning to worry that dawn was not far away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With Teller’s dawning realization that he might not be slotted in for the role of supreme authority at Livermore, his old habit of undermine-and-conquer returned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

About dawn, however, I know what I got to do. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I don't have until dawn!" he says. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was gloomy in the room, either dusk or dawn. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn on Tuesday, April 16, after resting for two U days at Base Camp, we headed up into the Icefall to begin our second acclimatization excursion. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was up before dawn today, waiting for the news. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the night it swam across the sky, and when dawn came, the whale dove into the sea again to repeat the cycle: through the water by day, through the sky by night. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coin-op classics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At around dawn, the two scholars stumbled out of a broken tower on top of the Bonecruel Mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And even faster as it dawned on me just how much I didn’t want to see Lightfoot McLendon with lint in her hair. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Aureliano put him up several times in the silver workshop, but he would spend his nights awake, disturbed by the noise of the dead people who walked through the bedrooms until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the black hour before dawn, they stopped to let the horses drink and fed than each a handful of oats and a twist or two of hay. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s just me up here with the fading fathead moon and every screaming seagull from far and wide visiting Lost Cove for a dawn concert. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The midsummer sky was already beginning to lighten in the east, and that was the way that Bod began to walk: down the hill, towards the living people, and the city, and the dawn. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Every day during those two springs and two summers I had gone to the headland and watched, always at dawn and again at dusk. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on her that Mrs. Grayson was trying to distract them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sun peeks across the horizon, shading the world gray as dawn approaches. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The uncomfortable assumption had begun to dawn on me that maybe this was all some sex-related thing I was better off not knowing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn I saw it from the headland far out on the horizon. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn the bombers were long gone, the fires dying, the final stragglers rounded up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, just before dawn, he gently shook her arm. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours he kept blinking, but by dawn, staying conscious seemed less important. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At the first signs of dawn, the first pink glimmers, the first watery bird songs, Dicey opened her eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think her screams echoed up and down the halls of Camillo Junior High until dawn. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The prince and the farmer's daughter held each other close in the growing dawn. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Immediately above rose the Lhotse Face, a vast, tilted sea of ice that gleamed like dirty chrome in the dawn’s slanting light. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Muokelu did not come by to call her before dawn and was not there among the crowd. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The villagers waited patiently as the sun painted the dawn clouds over Resthaven, and gradually Tendai became aware that all was not right with the situation. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama! You’re so early! You must’ve gotten up at the crack of dawn this morning, I hope you didn’t tire yourself out! ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the dawn light I also saw families of Pygmies moving among the shadows, wearing nothing but necklaces of feathers and animal teeth, and on rainy days, hats made of leaves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So soon they struggled on once more, until the dawn began to spread slowly in the wide grey solitude. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But at the crack of dawn the next day I would be up to catch the first bus to the ranch. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether I was an officer or inmate was unclear, but it suddenly dawned on me, as I sat in my cell, that I’d missed the twenty-four-hour deadline for appealing the charges against me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think of what was required of me just before dawn. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Wolleck appeared at dawn to request my permission to declare his intentions to you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As dawn broke I ate my pork and beans, feeling dopey, sleepy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped paddling, looked at the sky and was amazed at how fast the dawn came. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are three old aunts who all squawk together like crows at dawn. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Spring, summer, and fall— save certain holy days—my mother and I, like every other Stromford villager, worked his fields from dawn to dusk. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they came to the buffalo pen, dawn was showing through the trees. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day ended, and the night passed with cold rain whispering over the sea all through the dark hours, and a grey dawn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Six mornings a week he wakes her before dawn, and she holds her arms in the air while he dresses her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At last they reached the crest of the grey hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The world was quiet and cold, as if dawn were near. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The dawn breeze that came from the land was full of the scent of strange flowers and a moist earth that my feet had yet to walk upon. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all feels like a dream that's held on and lingered past the dawn. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When dawn finally lit up the world, I saw that I was surrounded by a large crowd. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As he climbed the steps to his chambers, Tyrion felt a deal more hopeful than he had at dawn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She saw it dawn on him: what she was, if not who. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was just starting to dawn on me that I would never see him again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the dawn of a beautiful day in the Pacific Ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung came home before dawn, gasping and too broken for food until he had slept. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

An hour before dawn we moved in for the last phase. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, just after dawn, the British attacked. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn and according to the strict schedule Colonel Meecham had plotted in Atlanta, they had come within sixty-five miles of the Marine Corps air station at Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, just before dawn, the travelers heard a soft whooshing noise above their heads and they glanced up and saw an immense gray batlike creature swooping down toward them out of the dark. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood on deck, waiting, ready to climb into the LST, I got my first look at Iwo Jima appearing in the faint light before dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone else made a speech showing how by careful planning we could break all the others before dawn. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the fifth door closed in my face, it dawned on me that come tomorrow, I might finally find out whether Frankie’s description of the textile mills had been true. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That history was erased with the dawn of slavery. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes; she could see the smoky light of dawn through the curtains. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And next time he wouldn’t wait until the precise strike of dawn before drawing her close. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She curled up in a ball beside him the way she used to when she was little, and waited for the light of dawn to come in under the door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I did not mask the fact that I believed a new day was dawning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, Harry saw comprehension dawn on a few of their faces. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me that she knew I’d been hanging out with Rachel, and I felt guilty. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Heck, I figured the stream wouldn’t likely slow down before dawn, anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Inej was ready for dawn, ready for this long night to be over, and the journey, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The night before I was so excited I couldn’t sleep till dawn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear was accustomed to rise at first light, so Jon had until dawn to put as many leagues as he could between him and the Wall ... if Sam Tarly did not betray him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’s particularly infuriating on Sundays, when he switches on the light at the crack of dawn to exercise for ten minutes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A long time passed; when at last I rose, my limbs were stiff and prickling, and darkness had given way to the first grey beginnings of dawn. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

This fact is now generally accepted; and we do not have to try to find in every mythological heroine the moon or the dawn and in every hero’s life a sun myth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s sing the song of the birds and the rain and stay away from the dark places on this map. With any luck, we’ll get to Abuelita’s house before dawn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We sat and talked until dawn, and I insisted on seeing Alice home. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I descended the stairwell, it dawned on me that except for Danny, I was almost alone. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the dawn of the OASIS, thousands of elderly users had come here and painstakingly coded virtual replicas of local arcades they remembered from their childhood, thus making them a permanent part of the museum. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As day dawned on Friday, streetcar service resumed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered how it could see without light, and it dawned on me, that the darkness was probably natural to the aliens. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But a time had come when Steve came just before dawn to tell them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s first rays flung wide the gates of dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Hey, let's get up at the crack of dawn. We'll try it out down on the beach! Just you and me, right? Before all the little tourists stake out every square inch, right?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This time the explosions came during the deep sleep before the dawn. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

You'd have thought . . . and slowly it begins to dawn on me . . . you'd have thought the very ground was going to explode. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Send your men over the river at dawn and attack the enemy’s left flank,” Bigger ordered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not till the first stripes of dawn start appearing down the valley in front of us do we stop to take on more water. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I decided to wake before dawn and tap my big toe to the tile floor first. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My big brother reaches home in the dark hours before dawn, when even ghosts take their rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They are to collect us again in the morning before dawn. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His soldiers would attack just before dawn, but he ordered the artillery fire to begin immediately. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, when the dawn started breaking over the horizon outside my window, I did as La Llorona advised. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But that feeling washed away as it also dawned on him that he was part of reason the tradition could continue. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We planned to take a carriage to the train, and we had to leave before dawn so no one would see us leaving. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I forget to go to bed, and find that it has become dawn and I have to change into my work clothes and go to work. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the c *rk, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was two hours after dawn when he reached the steep ravine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow at dawn, we will be roused and prepared for the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, a term I use loosely since it was not yet dawn, the Colonel shook me awake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He waited for the light to dawn, for her to smile, smack her forehead, and say, Of course! When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was nearly lunchtime and as Harry had only had one bit of treacle toffee since dawn, he was keen to go back to school to eat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was no more to be said, so we waited in patience until the dawn; at which time we might learn more from Mrs. Harker. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Though dawn was just a few hours away, the Slat was wide awake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I think now that if Aunt Loma hadn’t wanted the live mouse, it never would of dawned on me to mess up the play. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As she stepped into the hall, it dawned on me that all this time, she had been ready to lend a hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We arose before dawn and danced our way out to the fields. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At dawn they made ready to go on. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The candle in the cresset still burned dimly, but the lack of windows in the stone walls made it impossible to tell whether it was dawn or the middle of the night. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The first red streaks of dawn were lightening the sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At dawn, light filled my windows so quickly that my eyes hurt. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lender the opening fingers of the dawn; Alkinoos, the sacred prince, arose, and then arose Odysseus, raider of cities. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawning realization that spread across his face was adorable. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was no space left, and ten little ones still stood anxiously on the deck of the Ocarrion, realization dawning on their faces. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At last the dawn came and as the beasts crowding through the entrance passed out Polyphemus felt them over to be sure no one carried a man on his back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph continued to blow till his ears were singing with the effort, but then the first breeze of dawn took the job off his hands and blinded him with ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The grey dawn creeps in through the windows, casting soft shadows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He went to sleep quickly and didn’t awaken until dawn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me dawn and dusk are quiet times, and here in the redwoods nearly the whole of daylight is a quiet time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the long silence would return, lasting until dawn, when the city reawakened and the sun seemed to erase the terrors of the night. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no blue, no black, no stars, no purplish fan of a creeping dawn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I watched in slow, dawning horror as a dozen girls jumped down from their bunks and gathered in a buzzing huddle at the center of the room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She rose from her bedroll as the first rays of dawn touched the still-dark sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, the singed calf that “Peg Leg” Sullivan had helped escape came and stood by the Lees until dawn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first glimmer of dawn shone on their faces. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, wrapped in the colors of the nation that sought their death, they slept until well past dawn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Now skedaddle. I want lights out in two minutes. So good night and I’ll see you at dawn.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Every dawn he left his quarters and inspected the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He evidently fears discovery or interference, in the state of helplessness in which he must be—confined as he is between dawn and sunset in his wooden box. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The glad days that dawned gave me liberty for the free play of impulse and, from anxiety and restraint, I leaped to license and thoughtless action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There is a way through the heart of the mountain. Come dawn, if they have not found us, we will press on. The first watch is mine, brother." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rab standing un afraid in the cool gray of earliest dawn, the musket in his hands, the ‘look’ in his eyes—that fierce sudden look. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back by dawn and check on you then,” she said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on her that he seemed freaked out dealing with the things that wouldn't smash or smear. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of dawn in the sky. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I still remember when typewriters were useful, the dawn of the Commodore 64, and days when a song you loved would have its moment on the radio and then disappear into the nothing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At dawn, an invisible fist slammed into his stomach, and he barely made it out to the alley. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That man turned out to be a great actor from a world-famous family, and soon Mabel married him and changed her name to And suddenly it dawned on Joseph who the story was really about. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Here now again he lay, waiting for dawn, while in the great hall by Athena’s side Odysseus waited with his mind on slaughter. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn on Tet I tapped ?ny big toe to the tile floor first. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on me what he was saying, and my throat felt searing hot again. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Easter Sunday dawns, Herold and Booth are camped in a grove of pine trees a quarter mile off the main road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He awoke before dawn with the cold dew soaking his blanket. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ayesha puts her hand over her mouth as this dawns on her. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I made it back to town just before dawn. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was the shortest night of the year, the only night when, for one breathless moment at dawn, the barriers between this world and the spirit world were bridged. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At dawn I decided that if I hadn’t been able to have them while I was alive, at least they would accompany me in death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday dawned grey and gloomy, in keeping with my mood. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, and a light of recognition began to dawn in her eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cinna comes to me before dawn, gives me a simple shift to wear, and guides me to the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The story began several years ago at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And now it was dawn, time to get this show on the road. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The prisoners slumped dejectedly upon the Abbey grass, awaiting the break of dawn and the coming of Cluny the Scourge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When we got to the village, we sat around the fire until dawn. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They rolled off like perspiration, up at dawn, run, breakfast, work, the gym, home, dinner, television, sleep. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was close upon dawn when the work on all three ships was done. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was barely dawn, and only the white stripe running the length of her face was clearly visible. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Both of them had been awake for hours since dawn. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Very gradually, in tiny slivers, dawn began to break through the fog, and from my position in the brush I could see ten or fifteen meters up the trail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Many plans must be made between now and dawn. I shall leave you with this to consider: will you be first among my warriors—or first among my Cauldron-Born?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after dawn, when the sky turned not rosy and welcoming as it does in summer but merely a lighter shade of gray, the midwife kicked her awake. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had taken one look at her when she came through the door at dawn and she had known. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wake up at dawn and put a pot a Community coffee on the stovetop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So I must go to him, he thought, thinking, Now it is better than two oclock and it will be dawn soon. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we moved on; and out into the dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the sky was pink with dawn light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The walls around us hide the light, and dawn is close. We will be on our way soon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So that means that it is dawn again and that I must stop. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I got up just before dawn and got the fire going in the stove and put water on to boil and cooked our morning rice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by dawn, Sasha finally reached a group of Red Army soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I felt close to them when I rose each morning and used corn pollen at dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My dad walked out through the automatic doors at the entrance to smoke, and each time he did, I looked out at the sky, which lightened little by little with the coming dawn. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

From dawn till dusk, you will be lucky in everything you attempt. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Under the skin of dreaming, they both knew that dawn was near, and that their embrace could not survive it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He circled the house for several hours, whistling private calls, until the proximity of dawn forced him to go home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Yaxley’s head turn, saw an inkling of the truth dawn in that brutish face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At dawn, after a summary court-martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the cemetery. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before dawn I had made the trip to the Tea Water Pump, but I had not dared visit the prison or Captain Morse’s tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on me what she meant. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I sleep for about five hours, then get up before dawn to take the bus to school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Joe drifted into sleep aboard the Manhattan, the first light of dawn crept over Berlin, revealing small groups of men, women, and children being marched through the streets at gunpoint. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The leaves are gone / you should be, too / I’d be gone if I were you / but then again, here I am / walking alone / in the frigid dawn.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But for one fleeting instant, I caught his eyes on us and a look of recognition dawning on his face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the pale fingers of dawn crept across the sky Matthias was beginning to doubt that his companion knew the way. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A half hour later, Kaz returned with a message confirming that representatives from the Merchant Council would meet them on Vellgeluk at dawn the following day. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The ceremony began at dawn and continued until dusk, an endless day of drinking and feasting and fighting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Toward dawn, when they returned to the water, their grunts echoed distressingly close by. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not long after dawn he had started on horseback for New York and Philadelphia with an account of the Tea Party. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some boycotters had been stationed on the courthouse steps since dawn. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She had been six when Mrs. Hawkins had walked out before dawn, leaving Taylor with a lingering kiss on her forehead and a wound that lasted much longer. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sky is still dark, but I can feel the first signs of dawn approaching. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then there comes an hour just before dawn where there can’t be no more. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Matthias was on duty when the first fingers of dawn probed the quarry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fear of being caught woke Dicey before dawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rosy golden glow filled the salon, and Aru had a strange vision of someone gathering up the first light of dawn in hundreds of buckets. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took five steps toward the dawn and stood there, feeling the warmth of the sun touching me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard built his strength, hit the sack early, and rose well before dawn to head back to the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sees the earthen floor of his childhood home, and the spiderwebbed light of dawn coming through conifers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She slept soundly until dawn and awoke with a feeling of hope. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, sure enough, at dawn we was rolling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I was able to fall asleep but woke before dawn, mind looping from Mom to Otto to those two little bonobos in the crate. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before dawn we were rolling away, fleeing for our lives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake before dawn, scraps of nightmare stay with me: my face carved and branded; my brother hanging from the gallows, fair hair fluttering in the wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With scarcely time for a final glance at our home, and at Uncle Yousef and Aunt Najah shuffling in the chill gray dawn, we drive off, crunching over rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the dark red dawn the sun was mounting the horizon clouds and sparkled upon the dew on the rising wheat and barley. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He traveled at night, and the train reached the place of his destination just as the red winter dawn was breaking. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We set forth in the Crepuscule shortly after dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then, as dawn began to drain the dark, both men heard a sound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, an hour before dawn, his breath left him and I was sure it was the end: he was dead and would not be raised. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When school let out in the middle of May, I began getting up long before dawn to go crabbing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the old proverb that says that the darkest hour is before the dawn, the tragedy of Bisho led to a new opening in the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead on the horizon, the first pink light of dawn begins to show. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the early dawn light, I tried to train my mind on the walk with Anemone to block out the yelling from the kitchen, but I couldn’t. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were noisy in the dawn and the ranch cats came down from the hill like blunt snakes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, after pulling ten trout in the first hour of dawn, Joe had walked past that place and heard what he first believed was some combination of running water and wind in high trees. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to go to your job?” asked Jule, the idea dawning. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Often, he stared at the stars all night until the dark finally gave way to dawn. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

By degrees, after the morning’s dawn, sleep came. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten all about that bird, how she’d wake me every morning at dawn, when I was still curled safely in my mother’s nest. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The first traces of dawn had crept up on them, and Thomas could see every detail of Newt’s face, his skin tight, his brow creased. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was just after dawn and the air was heavy with dew and Olanna wandered around in the damp coolness, under the green foliage of the forest, sidestepping thick roots. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sleep had evaded me; my aching eyes strained open even though the night finally ended and dawn broke over a low peak somewhere in California. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No,” Percy muttered, light dawning in his eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At dawn, they gathered up their tubes of blood and ran to the airplane and handed the samples to the pilots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the book was finished, he and a group of friends hiked to the top and partied there till dawn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote leaves at dawn with his rifle and rod and brings home squirrels and wild turkeys, whiskery fish, now and then a whitetailed deer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning dawned very bright and cold. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu and Ginika arrived together, the party still at its dawn, the dance floor bare, boys running around with cassette tapes, shyness and awkwardness still undissolved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My stomach churned in revulsion and horror as his words dawned on me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"You will still be counting when dawn breaks in the east. How many fires bum around Riverrun tonight, I wonder?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When only the soreness remained she saw how the dawn had come silver to the windows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, I would continue to keep vigil throughout the night, hoping, praying that the chupacabras wouldn’t find us before dawn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Minho woke Thomas before dawn, motioning with a flashlight to follow him back to the Homestead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The skunks had burrows and plugged themselves in at dawn with bunches of leaves. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We awoke before dawn to the sound of horns blown on plantations to call the slaves to toil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

If he held it for ten hours he’d be ninety miles out at dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met dawn in King Walker’s gas station for a rehash of the night they had spent. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I chance a look at him, he is gazing out at the horizon, his mask catching the dawn light like water catching the sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Frayed yellow threads of dawn were trailing through the sky when we finally reached the gate. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The dawn, the sea-dawn and the mastery of ordered flight, were of such intense beauty that the boy was moved to sing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course it was just my drowsy madness, though it dawned on me that I had become more like Hoagland than I would have liked to admit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m about six miles from Beaver Corners, and the men won’t be there until dawn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a fog rolled in, misting me clean through—no pain, no thoughts, nothing but wet gray haze, like I’d been set adrift in a boat at dawn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

All of them had lost children before, it dawned on me through my shock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie awake until dawn, listening to Queenie snore and feeling utterly miserable. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She allowed herself to get up as soon as dawn broke, and she knelt beside the spring and splashed the freezing cold water on her face, gasping at the chill. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The nursery mamas will be there at dawn and they’ll help you. But in the meantime, just keep trying.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We push forward down our street, keeping the dawn to our backs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That morning, he learned that roosters really don’t start crowing at dawn. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At dawn, as Rontu and I went down the cliff, I would watch the ocean for their sails. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through three arched windows, dawn sends a sheaf of hallowed golden rays. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There we surrounded them, and gave battle yesterday at dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

All night they walked, and in the first dawn Kino searched the roadside for a covert to lie in during the day. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn the luggage was gone from his shelves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was still filled with midnight and ghosts, but as they closed and locked the heavy kitchen door behind them they saw it was close upon dawn. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister forbade me to have a first-period class, because she refused to drive me to campus at the crack of dawn, and I dutifully obliged. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We drove all night, slipping across the border just after midnight and reaching Liliesleaf Farm at dawn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, it dawns on one very drunk George Atzerodt that the plan has shifted from kidnapping to murder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn I was awake and saw that we had left everything behind except rock, and ice, and light, and the narrow road always going up and up under our treads. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When day began to dawn above the hills Farid went to the two captives, gave them water, a little of the dry bread they still had left, and a few olives. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Three days after Fannie’s death, grieving people lined the streets before dawn, waiting for her casket to pass by. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The first awareness that external or environmental agents could produce malignant change dawned in the mind of a London physician nearly two centuries ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Carpenter usually delivered just before dawn, before the neighborhood roused, but tonight he called at midnight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"Another hostage will follow her to the grave at first light, and another at sunset. Every dawn and every dusk will mean a death, until you are gone. I have no lack of hostages." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn we return our campsite pretty much to its original pristine appearance and walk on down the brook. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a restless night tossing in his hammock and woke to a muggy gray dawn. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The best photos were taken at dawn, in the late afternoon, or at dusk, when the low angle of the sun produced rich, warm colors and long shadows. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As the trader’s son wrote, “There lingers memories like a half forgotten dream, of an enchanting world dawning on a child’s consciousness in its wonder and mystery.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He’d probably blast us through the door if we wake him at the crack of dawn; he’ll think we’re trying to attack him while he’s asleep. Let’s give it till break.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on me, what she was suggesting. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was near dawn when they finally halted. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘We are the Uruk-hai: we do not stop the fight for night or day, for fair weather or for storm. We come to kill, by sun or moon. What of the dawn?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She listens to him for a minute, then bursts out angrily, “We could have easily been at the airport an hour earlier. We could have been there at dawn!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Daylight was dawning; a troop of horses coming from Latium caught sight of the shining helmet of Euryalus and challenged him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the break of dawn, I pack my clothes and my food bowl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn I took him in my arms and left the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But well before dawn they had all gone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laurent seemed to catch my scent less powerfully than James, but awareness now dawned on his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stared at it a moment longer before it dawned on her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At dawn, we woke up, frightened by our parents’ screams. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Against Baby Kochamma’s better judgment, it was he who took them, along with Lenin, for all-night performances at the temple, and sat up with them till dawn, explaining the language and gesture of kathakali. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you remember? It was pouring rain at dawn. It was incredible. I woke you.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano would escape at dawn and come back early in the morning on the next day, each time more excited by the proof that she had not barred the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Don’t ask me how, but I could tell we were at 40.19° North, 71.90° West, making eighteen knots, which meant the ship would arrive in New York Harbor by dawn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We’d get up at dawn, my favorite time, when the shadows were long and purple and you still had the whole day ahead of you. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the dawn light, it was as if the earth were glowing from within. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After a while it dawned on me that I couldn’t see anything. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn, Dill was ready to apply for college, complete with admission essay and financial aid documents. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was an hour each morning, in the dim light of dawn, when all the island animals were safe. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Darling,” he said, “the skylarks are singing and a new dawn is here.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday dawned bright and cold and two more inches of snow had accumulated in the night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was still very early, only just past true dawn, and the water was so calm he could see his reflection. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course my whole family has to escort me to Times Square at the crack of dawn, where I’ll be hopping on a six-o’clock bus to D.C. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Oops, I forgot. Ms. Keaton said it was a study period,” I say, feigning a look of dawning remembrance. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He took his last shuddering breath in the bleak black dawn, as cold rain hissed from a dark sky to turn the brick streets of the old city into rivers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At dawn they began traveling again and did not stop until they came to a small creek, where they drank and watered the horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“And then a few days later the train would pull in. Always at the crack of dawn.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As a red dawn broke in the east, Grey Wind began to howl again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The next day, dawn broke as they were crossing a cracked and fissured plain of hard red earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Late at night, he’d crank up the radio in his hotel room, lie down on his bed and nurse a glass of Jack Daniel’s, and sleep fitfully until dawn. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“At dawn. To wrest the cauldron from Arawn himself. The cauldron he uses to...” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn he started with a chosen few and for the first time a boat filled with armed men floated on the Tiber. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, the surprise dawn sweep by the INS. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drive all night and stop at dawn at a checkpoint on the northern rim of Brittany. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Charles developed a restlessness that got him out at dawn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Things were growing plain now in the dawn and I went fast. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the milkman turning into the close, the lights of his electric cart pallid in the dawn glimmer that was already filling the sky. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the companions set the cauldron on the ground and quickly drew away, the rays of dawn turned the black iron as red as blood. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They found their own places to sleep because the men stayed until dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sigurd needed Håkon’s blood for his powers, and if blood was best in the new sun, then dawn would be the best time to spill it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The morning before I shipped out, I rose before dawn and prayed with my corn pollen. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so they sat together until the dawn light came, pallid and gray, and they saw that the soil of Tab’s grave was newly rimed with frost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In spite of her stiffness and sore hands, Lupita’s spirits lifted as the dawn approached. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ll work all night, until dawn, and I’ll clean every piece of crystal in your shop. In return, I need money to get to Egypt tomorrow.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn drums fall silent, and boots march lockstep toward the courtyard, accompanied by the clank of chains. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"This is early to come calling, scarce past dawn. You should be snug in your bed." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He paused, staring at my lifted hands in the dawning light of morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the yelling and screaming of my little brothers and sister, for whom the move was a great adventure, broke the silence of dawn. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Out in his boat at dawn, at the mouth of the river he has known all his life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn parrots pour into the sky as if an unseen hand is opening, letting go a glittering gleam of green. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granted that our little hotel is dull, and the food indifferent, and that day after day dawns very much the same, yet we would not have it otherwise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Real was the truth she had to tell them, and real was the dawn glow creeping up the horizon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Above Fort National, the dawn becomes deeply, murderously clear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the dawn light, billowy clouds mounded against the far horizon like a snowdrift. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When January 1 dawned like any other morning, it broke Dad’s spirit. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He crawled to the edge of the Cliff once more, stuck his head over again to get a better look now that dawn was in full force. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the way, we pass a window and I see a gray, snowy dawn spreading across the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Look into the deer eyes with the dawning gray of his own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inhaled the dawn four times, giving a prayer to myself, to the new day, and to all that exists. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's when a bunch of stuff started to dawn on me: 1. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began not long after the dawn of time, in a war between the gods: the Aesir fought the Vanir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They swam along, Merlyn occasionally advising him to put his back into it when he forgot and the strange underwater world began to dawn about them, deliciously cool after the heat of the upper air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the confused and unmemorable time of that early dawn, Briony gathered that Cecilia was refusing to leave her room, refusing to come down to be interviewed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now it was almost dawn, time to rise, though rising hardly seemed worth the trouble. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It's nearly dawn, and you have an appointment.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The winter dawn was white and smoky and cold. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At dawn when the clamor started again I left and went back to the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, just before the dawn, it hovered on the horizon and touched the land. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And the prow sheared through the night into the dawn. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Jody turned and trotted out of the barn into the dawn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discussion, running on sensible lines, went on until it was nearly dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Chief Marshal Williams, for instance, went to the Saturday night fire when the second alarm sounded and stayed until dawn the next day. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Come dawn, if they were not in their beds, they'd be named deserters too. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Mary Webster called at the crack of dawn. Said you two were seen stark in the middle of the river last night at one o’clock!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mack got up in the dawn and hustled his pants where they bound him and he stood looking down on the bay. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the morning dawned, foggy and squally, they were right up under the island’s towering black cliffs, and a violent squall tore down the side of a mountain, slamming into the boat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Ari. It will happen tomorrow at dawn. Come to the rock then.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They could see when they arrived that Bethan in her excitement had dashed about in the shadowy dawn and wakened her friends. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hour of the owl, the hour of the wolf, the hour of the nightingale, moonrise and moonset, dusk and dawn, they staggered past like drunkards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But beyond the Wall, the enemy grows stronger, and should he win the dawn will never come again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jon rose at dawn the next day to watch his uncle leave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was dawning on her what everyone else knew: Will Thompson wasn’t loyal to anyone but himself. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It's too close to dawn to bother trying to get back to sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The champion picker of the day before was the hero of the dawn. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Clean the stalls when you’re done gawking. We got work to do come dawn.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night I slept on the rock, for I was afraid of him, and at dawn as I went out I left the hole under the fence open so he could go. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn he stopped on a grassy ridge to watch the sun rise; he let the mare graze, part of the cycle of restoration. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A little before dawn he heard steps in the hallway. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The words left my mouth before it even dawned on me what I was saying. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that chemicals may play a role similar to radiation has scarcely dawned on the public mind, nor on the minds of most medical or scientific workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t have to get up to feed the chickens at dawn like I did in Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘In any case we must be called at dawn,’ said Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Crepuscular creatures, like fireflies, bats, and deer, are especially active at dusk and dawn. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Men and women in those days probably worked from dawn to noon two hundred days a year, which works out to about twelve hundred hours of work annually. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Soon your mom will nudge him enough to make him roll over and the snoring will cease, maybe until dawn. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looked out over the ocean and felt closer, this dawn, than ever before, closer to the heart of it all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was just before dawn, with no one astir but a few silent Helpers mopping floors, sweeping walkways, or scaling ladders to scrub mildew from ceilings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When dawn came, he was writing swiftly, filling page after page with his fine scrawl. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then you'll get woken by his missus shouting at him right from the crack of dawn.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the long fingers of dawn fanned across the fields, color was returning to the world. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We leave the camp as early dawn pinks the sky in the east. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me I’d been sitting there tearing my hair like that for the past twenty minutes, and suddenly I got mad. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And then finally, at dawn, the grieved expression on the face of the mine captain that could only mean one thing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sometime around dawn of the next day, he reloaded the gun and killed himself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it will dawn on you: I did something big, because I had to. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So as I slide out of the foliage and into the dawn light, I pause a second, giving the cameras time to lock on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The bombings began at dawn and have continued unabated. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’d been up since dawn, going over every detail of the plan in her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“But,” said the Prime Minister, with a sense of dawning horror, “didn’t you tell me they’re the creatures that drain hope and happiness out of people?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The degree to which we are all involved in the control of the earth’s life is just beginning to dawn on most of us, and it means another revolution for human thought. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As dawn crested, he entered the challenger’s territory, and still he ran. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her wordlessly for an impossible amount of time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And so, at dawn, that day in the first week of August, Mae Tuck woke up and lay for a while beaming at the cobwebs on the ceiling. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a new decade dawned in the Cold War, the struggle between America and Russia was quickly spreading around the globe—and into the skies above. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And that’s like a promise. At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. Till dawn do us part.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I woke up at dawn on the morning of August 20, 1942, to hear thunder and wondered when the first drops of rain would spatter on the roof of the shelter. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd of dark-skinned figures in neatly pressed suits and church dresses had set off for the block-long federal courthouse just after dawn because Browder v. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the tiredness suddenly catching up with us—after all, we’d been travelling since before dawn—but I wasn’t the only one who went off into a bit of a dream in there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

By midday the water would be tepid, but in the chill of dawn it was almost cool and helped her keep her eyes open. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hattie dismissed me eventually, and I spent the hours till dawn imagining my release from the curse and thinking about my reunion with Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She worked from before dawn until well after dark, and what did she have to show for it? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wakes before dawn to say her first prayer. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The two girls were up at dawn each morning to prepare a hot breakfast for the men who had lain out in the yard on guard during the night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure it had its advantages, like the salary, the security, and, with seniority, the schedule: Starting work at dawn, Kingsley had afternoons free to work on his land and rebuild his log cabin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor had to stand around outside until dawn, the snow falling on him relentlessly. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

People had begun gathering by the track gates just after dawn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; the girls were up and dressing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rushlight or two burned in the room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There won’t be any more trains tonight,” he said, “but we’ll rise at dawn and deliver you to the station before the first one leaves in the morning. Good enough?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The meeting went on all night and we emerged at dawn and found a newspaper vendor selling the Rand Daily Mail: the Nationalists had triumphed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new, hard problem will be to cope with the dawning, intensifying realization of just how interlocked we are. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We already understood what was now dawning on my father: Methuselah could betray our secrets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally wondered how long it was until dawn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Each day, Olga begins at dawn at the city’s drab public general hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I had a chile, my massa’s chile for shure. She be as pretty as the dawn—blond hair, blue eyes, and skin the color of weak tea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biting my lips to keep from crying, I pick up my pine knot and return to the road and the dawn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept restlessly and woke several hours before dawn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just after dawn, the sound of American alarm cannons boomed through the fort. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the plaza, in the gray light of dawn, Jackson ordered them to stand still. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to dawn on him how truly alone they were here. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Never again would Wang Lung have to rise summer and winter at dawn to light the fire. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“This wild driving was the clue. A light has dawned. Now I know why you’ve drifted, why you don’t have any ambition, why you’ve thrown a business down the drain.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And washing the sleep from my face, I remembered how for a time in my boyhood I would often awake before dawn and step outside on the front porch. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they watched the dawn grow slowly in the sky, now bare and cloudless, until at last the sunrise came. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At dawn, the alarm clock buzzed him awake like an angry rattlesnake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's no going north. Half the fields are burnt, and what folks are left are walled up inside their holdfasts. One bunch rides off at dawn and another one shows up by dusk." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Qur’an asked Muslims to worship five times daily: once between first light and dawn; again after midday; at mid-afternoon; at sunset; and lastly an hour and a half after sunset. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m at the top of the second page when it dawns on me that this letter I’m writing is kind of a horrible burden. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then, almost at dawn, there were shouts of excitement from the Nazis beyond the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I get a few hours’ sleep before dawn. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The morning after the Trial, I wake before dawn, groggy from the sleep ing draught I realize I’ve been doused with. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After about an hour in the air, dawn lightened the terrain below. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The moon wanes to her dark,” Vetch murmured, awake in the dawn, when for a while the cold wind dropped. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

From then on the gentleman had a band of musicians play beside the window of Remedios the Beauty, sometimes until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometime before dawn he became aware of movement and sound nearby. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When we pulled into the town of Banff at dawn, I found out how cold it can be in the mountains. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back at dawn,” said Filch, “for what’s left of them,” he added nastily, and he turned and started back toward the castle, his lamp bobbing away in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It began to dawn on me that they were too still. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was barely dawn o’clock when Biddy come squealing into my room. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At dawn each morning, he wakes before us and runs to the town square for our work assignment. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was Lyra who woke them when the gray light of a wet dawn crept into the cave. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Slowly the dawn grew to a pale light, diffused and shadowless. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They started before dawn one clear August morning, going due north in groups along the banks and hedges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll make our supper alongside, and at dawn put out to sea.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged kept watch from dusk till dawn, for in darkness the force that drew or drove him grew stronger yet. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she waits, executing her standard number of shows, finishing the last a few hours before dawn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The first pale streaks of dawn were barely showing across the sky when the young dog sat up alertly, hearing the shuffling approach of some animal through the dead leaves and twigs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sit there and stare for hours as Warcross images rotated on its side, my skinny legs swinging, until dawn came and the sunlight would bathe me in gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Stunned? By you lot, you mean? But why — ?” Comprehension dawned suddenly on Bagman’s round, shiny face; he looked up at the skull, down at Winky, and then at Mr. Crouch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

An hour’s walk brought them to the crossroads where the road from the village met the road to the sea, and there Alyce could see, through the wet November dawn, a light. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, when it was still an hour before dawn, there was quite a lot of traffic moving around Hyde Park Corner. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at me for a second, the dawning of understanding on his face, and then said, “Yeah.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was dawn before the pain ended and, in six voices, his older brothers welcomed Septimus to their ranks. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on me that I’d seen this same car a couple of times on the highway, going south. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The woman drove all night, and at dawn we reached a tent labor camp on the outskirts of Guadalupe, a small town on the coast. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We signaled yesterday that we would reach Wethersfield at dawn. I expected that your aunt and uncle would be here to meet you no matter how early it might be.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They would all speed out to Diablo as if in a caravan, not to return home to Berkeley until dawn. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At dawn, she drags me out of bed, determined to get to training. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Facing the impossibility of finding anyone to intervene, convinced that her son would be shot at dawn, Úrsula wrapped up the things she wanted to bring him and went to the jail alone. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One streetlight is burning above a historical marker and, knowing I don’t have to reach Beaver Corners before dawn, I stop and read it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only rose early in the morning because Mrs. Caruthers liked to have her first cup of tea with the dawn, and now that Ophie lived in Daffodil Manor that task fell to her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But with false gray dawn he had awakened, instantly, and began to dig in the pack—to find amazing, wonderful things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still a couple hours before dawn and the air was cold and calm, filled with the dreams of sleeping men. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Safe? No. But we must stay. We must stay with Tali until dawn.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That Wabanaki means “Dawnland,” because the tribes live in the region where the first light of dawn touches the American continent. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not a messenger showing up at that eerie time of early dawn, the dew still thick on the grass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slept in Miyax’s furs most of the time, waiting for the dawn. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, heavy snow was falling again, and there was Roz, setting out from the Nest to build a third lodge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What I am trying to say is that it just never dawned upon them that I could understand, that I wasn’t a pet, but a human being. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on him: It was probably that idiot boy with the backpack. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Amazingly the great day finally dawned and I was out of bed before I knew it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the trellis, on tall stalks, tiny aster blossoms, deep pink with golden centers, trembled in the dawn breeze. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The dawn was chilly, but there was little wind now that it was May. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was with him again, a heartbeat unbroken where time subsided into dawn, and the sunset gave way to the stars, wheeling across the night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A night of pain, horrible pain, followed by the sweetest dawn of the Queen’s life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Soon he was bumped hard again, and it dawned on him that they did recognize him and that they were using his disguise as a license to elbow, trip and maul him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Until the dawn of his fifteenth name day, when he had been awakened to find his horse saddled and ready. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Blood ran down one cheek from a gash across his scalp, but the pale fight of dawn had put the glint of gold back in his hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was staring at her as if puzzled, and then she saw recognition dawn on his face. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hazy dawn hours of February 9, four thousand police and army troops cordoned off the township while workers razed empty houses and government trucks began moving families from So- phiatown to Meadowlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn, a tidal wave six feet high roared across the marsh. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All night he howled, but at dawn when I went out of the house, he was asleep. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When in the cold dawn a frost awakened Cal to a sick world he struggled home like a broken bug. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I never really woke up till dawn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was dark but there was a grayness in the window like that which precedes the dawn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t direct me to do anything differently; he leads me home to catch scraps of sleep just after dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Billy woke up at dawn on that day in January. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distant roosters began to crow and the air changed and the dawn was coming. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I woke to the sound of something in my room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Ten thousand?” he asked, and it dawned on him as the words left his mouth—the half-court shot. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn’s first light they were on the move again, marching until mid-morning. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The best time to see them was at dawn because after the sun came up they would be hiding or sleeping inside shelters of old tin, cardboard, and scrap wood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With that new dawn, with my mind and my body, my spirit and my emotions in good balance, I was ready to begin my journey as a warrior for America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day dawned hotter than the one before. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering his mother’s last illness, when she had coughed and coughed until his father left before dawn to get the dibia while the junior wife, Chioke, rubbed her back, frightened him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was chilly in the courtyard, and from the color of the sky above she could tell that it was just barely after dawn. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The water rose over my head and swirled around me like a whirlpool, dragging me deeper and deeper, until the thin light of dawn turned into darkness, and I couldn’t see anything anymore. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Towards dawn, his tight holding of her hand relaxed; peace came into his face and made it boyish again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sisters discovered the madwoman’s escape an hour after dawn. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And finally Thyon understood what had brought this junior librarian to his door in the earliest hours of dawn. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The heat’s on. Mario’s house is surrounded. My ride to the capital is stopping at the anacahuita tree at dawn. I have to hide out till then.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected to be shaken awake at the crack of dawn, but when I finally woke, the sun was streaming through the gabled windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Understanding dawned on him then, and tripping in his great haste, he left the room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I rode away at dawn; and I came at long last to the dwelling of Saruman. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I lie in bed for a while, watching the sun come up on a beautiful morning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m on deck the dawn we sail into New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That night Blanca slept fitfully and woke at dawn surrounded by the shadows of her large bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackbirds swarmed above the junipers; their noise increased with the dawn light and they fluttered and circled their roosting places restlessly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since they had mounted up at dawn, he had said not a word. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One boy appeared perfect, so round in the cool opal dawn. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘In the dark hour before dawn I doubted, but we will not part now. I will come with you, if that is your counsel.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He stared at it for a long time as the night lifted and dawn seeped into the sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t even dawn when a voice began chanting. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Because the seminar doesn’t start at the butt crack of dawn! Besides which, that is not even the point. Can you please focus, Mamma? What the heck is up with Rishi Patel?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And I run to the shops in the dawn light, stepping into the druggist’s the second he opens the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Before dawn one morning, the kid shook him awake. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to dawn, when the circus is emptying, they are taken for a walk around the tents and into the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Now, get along with you," she said softly, and looked at him, half regretfully, with eyes as violet as the cirrus clouds, high in the dawn sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary’s spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He started, then trailed off as it dawned on him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn the horns sounded, and within an hour they took the road again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was a dark, ruddy dawn, and through a small square hole of a window, where the tattered paper fluttered, a glimpse of bronze sky gleamed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the slow heat of summer, long before dawn, Volkheimer paces in the harsh dazzle of the billboard lights and feels his loneliness on him like a disease. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I dogged it on through La Fayette and Morgan City and came in the early dawn to Houma, which is pronounced Homer and is in my memory one of the pleasantest places in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reading lamp was flickering, its oil all but gone, as dawn light leaked through the high windows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Wind ruffled Nailer’s face as they came up into the dawn. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me, as we ate lunch in the prison auditorium, that there had been no particular need for us to go into that yard, or to linger there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its roots stretch back to the dawn of mathematics, in the time thousands of years before the first civilization, long before humans could read and write. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As dawn washed the darkness from the sky, the shattered glacier was revealed to be a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the dawn revealed a sight that filled Taran with despair. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

At dawn he decides it will be better to go on foot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When dawn finally came, he felt groggy and rolled over for more sleep—it wouldn’t hurt to skip the pond just one morning. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was sound asleep in the hour before dawn. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Awaking at dawn, he immediately tugged on irrigation boots and a sweater and plunged outside to dig worms from the rich damp earth along his irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always came at dawn, I knew that. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Winking in the first light of dawn, held in the hands of the goblin emissary, was the gemstone Spurge had brought to Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even thought about it, beyond my perverted fantasy about Annie, but it suddenly dawned on me that I couldn’t go. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Very late, almost at dawn, the phone rang. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re in Mexico and those are real Mexicans in there. These people can party till dawn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before I went in, feeling jangled from the coffee I’d been chugging since dawn, I called Jesse and arranged to have lunch with him afterward. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn I had to scrub the flagstones in our courtyard for Mum Olga. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up at dawn feeling excited about making the trip to Santa Clara. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A brilliant dawn broke through the morning dew, caressed every shadow, and lifted the fog to reveal a floor of white clouds dotting an azure sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in that man’s cloak how gratefully I lay in the bitter dark until the dawn came stitched in gold! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s tense, listening expression changed to a slowly dawning smile. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had risen at dawn, as we did every day. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's epic being up at the crack of dawn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I saw something dawn on her suddenly, and then felt her sneaking a second look. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had never enough of her, and he went back to his house in the dawn, dazed and unsatisfied. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Better to abstain from the gardens of delectable delights than to be stuck planting them, dawn to dusk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tufiakwa! We have been waiting since dawn! Is it because we don’t talk through our nose like white people?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not that Jayme needed to hear that; she says when her friend came out to her, it didn’t even dawn on her that it was an issue. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But I got to admit the thing looks mighty queer. We’ve combed the whole town this morning, ever since dawn. There’s not a trace of her. Don’t see how she could have got far.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The old man turned away from the dawn, keeping a hand on his wyvem to steady himself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every day, from dawn until midnight, the boys underwent a rigid routine that consisted of calisthenics, rifle practice, and fire-coordination drills. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped his feet into his sandals and went outside to watch the dawn. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in love, with Cecilia, with the twins, with success and the dawn and its curious glowing mist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘It is as I said. The hunt is up! Even if we live to see the dawn, who now will wish to journey south by night with the wild wolves on his trail?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It didn’t really dawn on me until I saw the notice; it didn’t seem real. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hears the shot and escapes but when he learns at dawn how Bess died he goes into a rage and returns for revenge only to be shot down by the redcoats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sparkler had faded, and nothing was visible in the dawn light just starting to spill across the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But Teenie kept her busy from dawn to dusk doing what Polly considered to be slave labor—peeling potatoes, shelling peas, shucking corn, and carrying heavy stacks of kindling for the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning, awakened by the dawn and the call of birds, they all arose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fever of insomnia fatigued him so much that one dawn he could not recognize the old man with white hair and uncertain gestures who came into his bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"That's very kind, Mrs. Taylor”—Ewan's excuse was seamless—"but my mother's birthday dinners run to military precision. If she suspects me of dawdling, it'll be the execution squad at dawn.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At dawn on April 28, the Russian tanks approached, and the boys opened fire. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But slowly it dawned upon my love-drunk skull: he had only welcomed me there after devising his program to make me whole! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke again the snow had stopped and the grainy dawn was shaping out the naked woodlands beyond the bridge, the trees black against the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve hardly slept a wink, and tomorrow—or really, today, since it’s almost dawn—I’m heading back to the capital for the start of fall classes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There we woke up another family, and I finally went to sleep, tired and happy, just before dawn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been waiting in the frigid cold since dawn, their weapons ready. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here? It’s not even dawn.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But the overcast had broken, and before dawn the thin moon shining between brown-edged clouds shed a weak light on the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When dawn broke over the city, the dark red blooms of dragon's breath surrounded the girls where they lay. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn, I stretched and headed toward the Sacred Rock, Sumac groggily perched atop my shoulder. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, look at that, the sun’s finally coming out,” Delia said, stopping to admire the new dawn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I expected to see the Fleece missing from the pine tree, but it was still there, glittering in the first light of dawn. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan no longer said perhaps; only a faint spark of hope, obstinately refusing to die, brought him out each dawn to scour the heavens for a sign. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when it dawned on him that the FBI knew all about Operation Pastorius, he confessed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

El Jefe was furious and kept everyone till well after dawn—perhaps to show up our early departure. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the sky, hoping for one less opponent at dawn, but nobody appears tonight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But just when I thought I was going to get away, the creaky machinery of his face began to grind and a cardboard dawn of recognition was lowered, with jerks, from the dusty proscenium. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It dawns on me: Mom’s never been glam because she makes no time for extras. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We wake up before dawn to start working in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning dawned even brighter than before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dawn was coming, lighting up the back of Fremont’s Peak so that it stood black against the sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn was full of shouts and screams and heavy with the scent of blood, and the world had turned to chaos. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve been out since before it got light, it’s barely dawn now, deathly quiet except for the occasional outburst of chatter from the magpies in the trees above my head. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quietly sat beside her and opened my Psalm book, praying for deliverance, or at least the dawn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn I thought real hard: Where would I find out about the Gribley farm? My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked traveling so much he wanted to get started early, and early for Charley is the first tempering of darkness with the dawn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had him off the place by dawn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not until he saw it return at dawn. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept to the kitchen and cellar and woodpile when she was awake, but made my trips up island each day before dawn, looking over my shoulder at every sound, choosing a different path daily. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

George, Florah and Maria, whom I was baby-sitting that day because my mother had left at dawn to go hunt for jobs and food, were playing in a small mud puddle. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nights were long and filled with dark work; she was exhausted by dawn, and drifted off as soon as she let her eyes shut. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sunday was the only day the men did not get up before dawn, and therefore Saturday night was the only night anyone of the island would consider spending in a frivolous manner. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been out since dawn, hauling people and packages from place to place. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the dawn woke the instinct in the dim memory of the blood when horses had been as wild as the deer and at sunrise went into the trees and thickets to hide. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z