Word: dawn
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...call is coming." It was prophetic. The convulsions began, and the bright spirit slowly burned away. Nothing was spared, for there even came a day when Gabby's blood count suddenly became normal; her liver improved; the swelling in her abdomen began shrinking. But it was a false dawn and, watching the child sleep with her fine bones showing through the silvery pallor of her face, the mother thought: "I could sometimes see the unfamiliar but strangely beautiful mask of death already being tried...
...first, faint light of dawn silhouetted rugged peaks, then picked out the barracks, the ammunition depot and the sandbagged trench surrounding a hilltop army outpost called Praga in the Colombian Andes. Praga's commander, a lieutenant, was not there; he and most of his platoon had been called away to chase cattle thieves, leaving a corporal in charge. A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept...
...sanctuary (in 1843-44) to examine the lives of all mortals living and dead, and to dispense the atonement he had paid for with his blood. This "investigative judgment," said Edson, was going on now; when it was completed, the great day of the Second Coming would dawn...
...remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes shone steady and intense as the crack of dawn...
...chauffeur. When Gina learns that he will not marry her because he is already married, what is there for her to do? She is disillusioned, bursting with "physical exuberance," and full of motherly advice that she has a body to sell. She sells it. Comes the dawn, and Gina wants to die. Instead, she keeps going-from one man to another. The principal ones (the time is the mid-'30s) are a fascist police official, who loves her madly, a craven anti-fascist student, whom she loves madly, and a psychopathic brute, who makes love to her madly...