although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

Toledo's beleaguered Christians braced themselves for the next wave of persecution, and the Campbells, in an atmosphere that must have seemed eerily reminiscent of early Christians in the Catacombs of Rome, were confirmed in a secret ceremony, before dawn, by Cardinal Goma, the elderly Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain.

But the country rock sound's popularity seemed to be on the wane at the dawn of the 1980s as groups such as the Ozarks, Poco, Firefall, etc.

Away wins at Leeds Rhinos and St Helens seemed to herald a new dawn, however, the club's run of success was ended with a club record 82-6 defeat to Warrington Wolves on 20 March 2011 and the team were within a try of losing by the all-time Super League record margin of-80 held by Salford City Reds.

sometimes he would be up before dawn, clad as a garbage collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us, and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar butts against their paws.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

The chastisement would only be for their good ; a better day would dawn for them.

The novelist Matteo Bandello observed Leonardo at work and wrote that some days he would paint from dawn till dusk without stopping to eat and then not paint for three or four days at a time.

An old Sumerian proverb averred that " he who would excel in the school of the scribes must rise with the dawn.

During the rainy night, Key had witnessed the bombardment and observed that the fort's smaller " storm flag " continued to fly, but once the shell and Congreve rocket barrage had stopped, he would not know how the battle had turned out until dawn.

They spent the night recording what would become the Two Virgins album, after which, he said, they " made love at dawn.

Due to time constraints, a helicopter insertion would be needed for the teams to reach the peak before dawn.

The Franks resumed their phalanx, and rested in place through the night, believing the battle would resume at dawn the following morning.

There were libraries in most towns and temples ; an old Sumerian proverb averred that " he who would excel in the school of the scribes must rise with the dawn.

The bands would play all-nighters in St. Louis, then cross the river to the clubs of East St. Louis, Illinois, and continue playing until dawn.

( Such a move never occurred, although fortuitously, 60 years later the Channel 7 frequency would prove technically favorable for digital television transmission, a technology unanticipated at the dawn of TV broadcasting.

Moore would later reveal, in an attempt to connect the original one-off Swamp Thing story from House of Secrets to the main Swamp Thing canon, that there had been dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Swamp Things since the dawn of humanity, and that all versions of the creature were designated defenders of the Parliament of Trees, an elemental community also known as " the Green " that connects all plant life on Earth.

There were libraries in most towns and temples ; an old Sumerian proverb averred that " he who would excel in the school of the scribes must rise with the dawn.

At the dawn of the rock era, Parlophone artists such as Humphrey Lyttelton, the Vipers Skiffle Group, the pianist Mrs Mills, Jim Dale, Keith Kelly, Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, the Temperance Seven, Laurie London and Shane Fenton would sporadically reach the British Top 20 chart.

[...] Then Tepeu and Gucumatz came together ; then they conferred about life and light, what they would do so that there would be light and dawn, who it would be who would provide food and sustenance.

I am grateful to my friend James Richard for making calculations which convinced me that the alignment on 9 April would permit the sun to be visible through the tunnel soon after dawn on a fine day.

Then, at dusk, they would be swallowed, pass through her belly during the night, and be reborn at dawn.

As American aircraft came on station, traffic would subside until just before dawn, when fixed-wing gunships and night bombers returned to their bases.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

" The lyric is: " I bring the sun at red dawn upon the thoughts of Frantz Fanon, So stand at attention devil dirge, You'll never survive choosing sides against the Wretched of the Earth.

Never gleam of sun shine on it, never dawn its dusk awake.

In mid and northern Scandinavia, summer nights never get any further than to civil dusk or dawn.

" I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this ; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn.

A. C. Swinburne, for example, wrote " here is the first dawn of that higher and more tender humour that was never given in such perfection to any man as ultimately to Shakespeare.

Neither has any memory of their half-life in animal form ; only at dusk and dawn of each day can they see each other in human form for one fleeting moment, but can never touch.

The exact events have never been clarified, but it appears that Ndadaye, Pontien Karibwami, the president of the National Assembly and Gilles Bimazubute, the vice-president of the National Assembly, were taken to an army barracks before dawn by supposedly loyal soldiers under the guise that there had been a mutiny by sections of the army and that they needed protection.

Since I don ’ t believe in an afterlife however I can say with absolute certainty I shall never see that particular dawn .”

It's late and you said they'd be here by dawn ''.

To this must be added the 90 to 92 megatons of fission yield produced between the dawn of the atomic age in 1945 and the informal three-power test moratorium that began in November, 1958.

Since the dawn of Newtonian science with its vision of simple mechanical principles governing the entire universe, some philosophers have been tempted by the idea that consciousness could be explained in purely physical terms.

The memorial is located in an open plaza and may be visited freely from dawn to dusk, 7 days a week.

Each day, Ra traveled over the earth across the underside of the sky, and at night he passed through the Duat to be reborn at dawn.

Muslims must abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk during this month, and are to be especially mindful of other sins.

The same researchers claim the species is at least somewhat nocturnal, with peak activity being reported by one source as occurring around “ two hours after dark ” and again at dawn ( although the dawn peak was recorded in the lab and could be misleading as a result ).

MIDI's introduction coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era and the introductions of samplers, whose ability to play back prerecorded sounds allowed stage performances to include effects that previously were unobtainable outside of the studio, and digital synthesizers, which allowed pre-programmed sounds to be stored and recalled with the press of a button.

These services could be very long, sometimes lasting till dawn, but usually consisted of a chant, three antiphons, three psalms, and three lessons, along with celebrations of any local saints ' days.

The English historian Ronald Hutton noted that by the dawn of the 21st century, there were four separate definitions of the term which appeared to be in use.

The dawn of fascism in the early 1920s heralded a change of strategy for Italy, as the north-eastern sultanates were soon to be forced within the boundaries of La Grande Somalia according to the plan of Fascist Italy.

Use of the term " false dawn " in this context should not be confused with false sunrise, which is a different, unrelated optical phenomenon.

Shi ' a Muslims believe it to be the dawn of 17th of the month of Rabi '- ul-Awwal, corresponding to April 27, 571.

Flowers had to be hand picked at dawn, when their scent is the most developed and immediately to be treated by enfleurage cold.

This will happen again in early July 2060, except that on that occasion the quintet will be bunched in the northeastern sky shortly before dawn.

Through the night of the 22nd to dawn of the 23rd, Mullá Husayn became the first to accept the Báb's claims as the gateway to Truth and the initiator of a new prophetic cycle ; the Báb had replied in a satisfactory way to all of Mullá Husayn's questions and had written in his presence, with extreme rapidity, a long commentary of Surih of Joseph, which has come to be known as the Qayyúmu ' l-Asmá ' and is considered the Báb's first revealed work.

However, if one looks regularly at the sky before dawn, the annual motion is very noticeable: the last stars seen to rise are not always the same, and within a week or two an upward shift can be noted.

As an example, in July in the Northern Hemisphere, Orion cannot be seen in the dawn sky, but in August it becomes visible.

For this reason many cultures started their year on the first day a particular special star ( Sirius, for instance ) could be seen in the east at dawn.