Etymology
Origin of dewfall
Example Sentences
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I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sweet as the dewfall, splendid as the south, Love touched with speech Boccaccio's golden mouth, Joy thrilled and filled its utterance full with song, And sorrow smiled on doom that wrought no wrong.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Roses with dewfall laden One garden grows for me; I call them kisses, maiden, And gather them from thee.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur
The merriest part of the day with these birds is the later afternoon, during the hour preceding dewfall, and before the Robins and Thrushes commence their evening hymn.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
No lift of the heart would come with the lifting leaves, no pang of mysterious pain with bird-song, star-set, dewfall.
From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
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