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break of day (uncountable)
- Daybreak.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX:
- Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
- Like to the lark at break of day arising
- From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.
- 1897, James M. Barrie, Margaret Ogilvy, ch. 5:
- Well, with break of day she wakes and sits up in bed.
- 1920, Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum, ch. 6:
- "You've got to rise 'fore break of day
- If you want to fool old Mr. Jay."
- 2001 August 6, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, "Wailing Over Whales," Time:
- Wholesale buyers and curious onlookers pack Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market at the break of day.
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