Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longing of his thoughts to lose themselves in the past, he married Lucia Mathews, a lovely and courageous woman, who bore his children and loved him well. His hatred of Gawin Todd never slept. At last the two met, high words passed, a challenge was given. They fought at dawn by the river. As Richard Bale lifted his pistol, the rising sun fell in his" eyes and, his own shot missing, he received a mortal wound. The cartel per mitted a second exchange if either 'demanded. Bale, strapped with his scarf to a sapling, shot his enemy dead...
When the sun had kissed the grand old Hradsany good night, Harry had not returned for similar caresses from his anxious wife. The dawn of another morning confirmed the fears of dozens of business men: Harry had fled. Mrs. Gray, ruminating upon her pillow, remembered that she was poorer. Investigation showed that she was bankrupt...
Premier 'Herriot: "We now see the dawn and we hope to work till daylight is reached...
Time was not in Elfland, nor dawn nor sunset nor any change at all. The deep 'blue of summer gloaming, the pale blue of Venus flooding the evening, the night-blue deeps of twilit lakes-these were hints of Elfland's color, as the rarest of earthly smells and shapes and sounds were hints of Elfland's other beauties...
...When dawn swept away night's covering and revealed the first day of August, Germany thought of another first of August, ten years ago, when the Empire declared war on Imperial Russia...