The bright star Sirius appeared again in the predawn sky, having been lost in the solar glare for a couple of months. |
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Acting on a tip, police launched a predawn raid on their hideout, triggering an exchange of fire. |
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In the predawn gloom, an armada of longboards sat in the sand of Windansea beach, bristling like war ships with poles, tackle, and gear. |
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A man even admitted to calling in sick yesterday because he was afraid to leave for work in the predawn hours. |
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The enemy had approached in the predawn to within a few hundred yards, and a big trebuchet was hurling rocks at them. |
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We collapsed our tents in the predawn dark and left the gear on the broken stones of the former temple as the monks had suggested. |
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Leni said she saw that the fire had started at about 3 a.m. when she was about to wake Samsudin up for a predawn meal. |
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Costco workers were the very first responders to the predawn tragedy on their doorstep. |
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Awareness heightened in the predawn darkness, my stomach clenches as I mistake boulders for grizzlies. |
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At both sites, maximum leaf conductance was related to predawn shoot water potential. |
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Nothing surrounded us but the dark embrace of trees, except where the predawn light touched the eroded stone face of another pyramid rising above the canopy. |
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When she turned, she could see nothing but her sofa in the predawn gloom. |
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In the predawn hours of D-Day, units of the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions were airdropped inland from the landing beach. |
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Minimum water demands typically occur in the very early or predawn morning hours. |
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Thus her predawn routine is the most sacred ritual of her day, which is a rare example in these modern days, even in India. |
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The conference bill was voted on in the House Monday in the predawn hours. |
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In the chilly, predawn hours in Sao Paulo, Brazil, more than 1,000 people mill around a parking lot, waiting anxiously to have their picture taken. |
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After the first predawn raids on Tuesday, Malaysian authorities could proclaim with confidence that all had gone well, and that no one had been hurt. |
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At the first spluttering sounds of the water ration's arrival through the pipes in the predawn dark, bodies spring from beds to fill buckets and pots. |
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And, in interstellar news, today Earth's moon and the planet Jupiter will rendezvous in the predawn sky, probably for some coffee, maybe a bagel with a little shmear. |
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On the beach at Sandy Hook on the New Jersey shore one October there were hundreds of us assembled in the predawn hours, fishing for striped bass. |
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But somehow none of them expected that to happen, not after all the confused shouting and general bedlam which had followed those predawn bugle calls. |
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A predawn firefight has left at least one, and possibly as many as four pro-Russian activists dead. |
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By then, smoke was filling part of the ship, billowing up to the top decks in the predawn light. |
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But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse. |
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A massive predawn snowslide, preceded by days of blizzards and storms, engulfed 19 homes and claimed the lives of 20 persons in the fishing village. |
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Having federal agents spy on ordinary citizens using tax audits to harass opponents, predawn police raids, arbitrary arrests, property seizures, no doubt an enemies list or two. |
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The tradition consists of the members of this brotherhood travelling through the streets of the village in the predawn hours on certain Sundays playing string and percussion instruments. |
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Last week they organised a peaceful sit in, camping, singing and dancing by the threatened trees. On May 31st, in a predawn raid, riot police moved in. |
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When the four caskets came into Ramstein in Germany and were transferred to the Canadian Airbus to bring them home, their wounded comrades left their hospital beds and waited with all of us in the cold, windy, wet predawn. |
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Brasserie Le Boulingrin This classic brasserie was the preferred spot for a predawn rendezvous by the butchers, fruiterers and fish mongers who populated Reims's immense covered market. |
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The predawn attack on the police checkpoint happened in the Laman area on the outskirts of Qala-i-Naw, the provincial capital, the police chief said. |
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He was accompanied on the predawn hike by a six-strong television film crew from Australia's 60 Minutes programme, including an Aussie bushwalking expert. |
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The predawn collision caused several cars to derail, it said. |
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A week earlier, Fritz Woiwode, 72, and his wife, Karin, 63, were killed when they were hit by a vehicle whose driver was headed to work in the predawn hours. |
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However, the Venezuelan president still has supporters willing to sound trumpets and set off fireworks in a tradition predawn 'wake-up call' for voters. |
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A large military force reportedly stormed the camp during the predawn hours, amid firing live ammunition and concussion grenades, provoking clashes with the camps locals. |
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