early

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

Barry wished to go and return the same day, it was necessary to make a very early start.

The Manor House, with its many gables and its small diamond-paned windows, was still much as the builder had left it in the early seventeenth century.

The inspector was himself dependent, as he explained to us, upon a scribbled account forwarded to him by the milk train in the early hours of the morning.