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Daylight

noun

The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside. Synonyms: day, daytime. "It is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"

Light during the daytime.

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"Daylight" Quotes from Famous Books

... grandest funeral That ever passed on earth; But no man heard the trampling, Or saw the train go forth— Noiselessly as the daylight Comes back when night is done, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... thing to do—to sit down in the heart of a civilized city, in broad daylight and on the most public street, and wait for a time lock to open a burglar-proof safe. Daring as it was, it was foolish and futile. As the robbers stood uneasily guarding their prisoners, the alarm was spread. A moment later firing began, and ...

— The Story of the Outlaw - A Study of the Western Desperado • Emerson Hough

... understood that, when Lycurgus first came to deal with the question, the Spartans like the rest of the Hellenes, used to mess privately at home. Tracing more than half the current misdemeanours to this custom, (2) he was determined to drag his people out of holes and corners into the broad daylight, and so he invented the public mess-rooms. Whereby he expected at any rate to minimise ...

— The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians • Xenophon

... interesting narrative," said Mervale, rising. "Come, Glyndon; shall we seek our hotel? It is almost daylight. Adieu, signor!" ...

— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... It must be near daylight now. The room is very close and hot because of the fire. Alligator still watches the wall from time to time. Suddenly he becomes greatly interested; he draws himself a few inches nearer the partition, ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

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