Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Echoes at early dawn...
...youth who, at dawn, through the meadows is roaming...
...betting and gambling, may at any time be aggravated into special activity and force by the representatives of the sporting class, that often hover sympathetically around them. What Christian father, solicitous for the highest future of his son, would not shrink with instinctive earnestness from exposing him in the dawn of his opening manhood to such untoward moral liabilities...
...vanished, and the dawn was in the skies...
...more marked than that of which the grisette forms the greater part. A sort of romance is thrown about them, and yet few ever realize the humdrum life they are wont to lead. Way up in attics, in cramped and gloomy rooms, the grisette opens her eyes at early dawn to look out of the one small window on a forest of chimneys and a waste of roofs, or perhaps on a mass of sombre blocks and lonely warehouses. But her room to a grisette is like a port for a vessel; she leaves it, she comes back...