sunrise
/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/ noun B1- The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. · I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.
- The change in color of the sky at dawn. · Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
- Any great awakening. · It was the sunrise of her spirit.
Plural sunrises
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de Villefort had perceived at sunrise had all disappeared as if by magic, and one of the softest and most brilliant days of September shone forth in all its splendor.
But Anne counted it all joy, and was up before sunrise on Tuesday morning.
“I’ll get up at sunrise and go over, Marilla.”
She felt something like shame and remorse when she discovered that the sunrises behind the firs and the pale pink buds opening in the garden gave her the old inrush of gladness when she saw them--that Diana’s visits were pleasant to her and that Diana’s merry words and ways moved her to laughter and smiles--that, in brief, the beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart, that life still called to her with many insistent voices.
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