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Example sentences for "before daybreak"

  • Before daybreak," said Catesby, "I will proceed to the cellar under the Parliament House, and ascertain whether anything has happened to Guy Fawkes.

  • My wife proposed that we should forsake our luggage, and march at once for Foweera and effect a junction with our men and ammunition before daybreak.

  • Should he refuse to trust me, he must fly immediately, as the Turks would attack the village before daybreak.

  • Before daybreak I joined a party that was going to Loos, and so began the fatal Sunday.

  • She was taken out and shot before daybreak.

  • However, Metellus demands that the obstructive notice should be served on him next day in the forum: "there was no need to come to the campus before daybreak: he would be in the comitium at the first hour of the day.

  • I write this on the 15th of January, before daybreak.

  • This latter was passed by the old trick of the prætor appearing in the campus before daybreak to prevent obnuntiatio.

  • To accustom himself to riding, Gregory went out on it for a couple of hours every morning; getting up before daybreak, so as to take exercise before the work of the day began.

  • They found that the calculation they had made as to distance was correct and, before daybreak, arrived on the bank of the Nile, and at once encamped in a grove.

  • They calculated that they must have gone a good fifteen miles from the point where they turned off, and feared that they might miss the caravan track, if they went on before daybreak.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before being; before breakfast; before coming; before dinner; before directed; before going; before her; before hinted; before long; before mentioned; before noted; before noticed; before she; before stated; before thee; before thou; before very; before you; depending upon; equal number; foot high; great calm; more probable; none effect; public place; vast abundance