dew-fall

The most dangerous times are dawn and evening tide: the troopers spare their horses during the heat, and themselves during the dew-fall.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

We were both of us not a little stiff as the result of sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be trifled with.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

The result of this state of things will be that the moisture will be precipitated mainly on the mountains during the cold of night -- in the form of frost -- and during the day this covering of frost will melt; and, just as we see a heavy dew-fall darken the ground in summer, so the melting ice will set off the elevated land against the arid plains below.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

And yet it came to pass That in a hamlet, 'neath a castled height, One Sunday, when a troop of sweethearts danced Upon the day of Roquefort fete, And to a fife the praises sang Of Saint James and the August weather -- That bounteous month which year by year, Through dew-fall of the evening bright, And heat of Autumn noons doth bring Both grapes and figs to ripening.

Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891

It was one of those legendary passions that sometimes occur, idyllic, untouched by civilisation, spontaneous as the growth of trees, natural as dew-fall, strong as the firm-seated mountains.

The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886

Three days later the surgeons were gone, all three, and at the approach of dew-fall Cécile and Harry, Camille and I, walked in a field-path, gathered hedge roses, and debated the problem of

The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

There is rain at intervals, and a heavy dew-fall, and sometimes a sea fog that makes it highly advisable to suspend all operations until it has lifted.

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

Christian faith and nurture can even push it out of the world, as in the silence of a dew-fall.

Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

All wet with the deadly dew-fall, and she saw the great eyes stare

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

Of kine in the dew-fall wandering, and of oxen loosed from the wain,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865