false dawn

I gave her the times for false and real dawn.

He stood up, and faced the window, looking out at the false dawn.

At last, though the trees, he saw the gray light of false dawn.

False dawn died away and he was quickly into the shadows.

So is this a false dawn, the end of a phase and not the war?

A faint light came from the south, like a false dawn.

The first light of the false dawn was coming, and the sun would rise over the mountains in less than two hours.

The false dawn had started to glow in the East but it would be an hour and a half before the sun was up.

The false dawn was in the sky when I went on deck.

The car ran out of gas when false dawn first began to pale the sky behind him.