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
He insisted, for instance, upon putting wraps about her shoulders after dewfall and refused to believe that she never caught cold.
From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
The dewfall had been very heavy, and soaked them from nose tip to tail, and the bats wheeled overhead.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.
And softer than dewfall, and kindlier than starlight, and keener than wine, Came round us the fragrance of waters, the life of the breath of the brine.
From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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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