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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" Antonym: night.

Light during the daytime.

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"Daylight" Quotes from Famous Books

... broad daylight and far into the morning, for the sun was high overhead and the mesas in the distance were clear and ...

— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill

... power in his Church he has done it for the benefit of every member. Then he must needs be presumed to have made choice of that government as should least expose the people to hazard, either from fraud, or arbitrary measures of particular men. And it is as plain as daylight, there is no species of government like a democracy to attain this end." So argued the Ipswich preacher in 1717. Fifty years later, his Vindication of the Government of the New England Churches, too radical for his own day, was seen ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... leaf catches the sun sometimes, little as it can profit by it; and I have heard stories of the breeze in other climates that sets in when daylight is about to close, and how constant it is, and how refreshing. My heart, indeed, is now sustained strangely; it became the more sensibly so from that time forward, when power and grandeur and all things terrestrial were sunk from sight. ...

— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

... home, the stable was in a very bad situation, and I was afraid to bring my horse in until I could strike a light. When this was done, I took the saddle and bridle off outside. No sooner had I done this than my horse reared over the bars and ran away into the meadow. I chased him till daylight, and for my life I could not catch him. My feelings now may be better imagined than described. When the reader remembers that this horse, with all the rest, master had seen clean at six o'clock the night ...

— Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky • Jacob D. Green

... "In broad daylight, yes! But, just to make sure, we'll buy a couple of revolvers on the way. And, what's more, if it ...

— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby

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