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

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

It was a false dawn before the country's blackest hours.

For the temporary-help industry, as with the general economy, there has been a false dawn or two.

Lets hope it is not a false dawn a la Crosby.

Nobody can yet say whether the glimmerings from Damascus are a false dawn.

But that was something of a false dawn.

It was a false dawn: by 1997, we were wiped out as a political force in Scotland, and have not since recovered.

With the Wall Street boom ending, the last few years may soon look like a false dawn.

But the Japanese see only a false dawn.

The stranger fell into step, a silent companion in the gloom of a false dawn.

But it proved to be a false dawn.

However, the lamps proved a false dawn because they became unsafe very quickly and provided a weak light.

After a while, I could make out the lights of Sheridan, like a false dawn beyond the hills.

This innings was a false dawn, however, and in Williams' next 30 innings he never made more than 41.

The recruits had been aroused by the computer at a false dawn they had to take on faith.

She had no color except the faintest flushes of blue and rose, as upon snow beneath a false dawn.

However, this proved to be nothing more than a false dawn and Town's chances of survival would shortly become non-existent.

But it was a false dawn and the team fell into mid-table obscurity during the 1950s.

I'd been standing silently next to my father watching the destruction of the Serbs' yacht cause a false dawn on the horizon.

A generator was later brought in and lights were set up, casting the hilltop in a false dawn.

But it was a false dawn: the 2007 Honda was poor, and the 2008 car was even worse.

MAYBE it was just a false dawn there have been plenty of those.

It proved something of a false dawn as Buemi went on to pick up just six points in his rookie season.

However, this proved to be a false dawn for the rest of Ireland as Kerry regrouped.

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

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

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

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

It was very dark inside, much darker than the false dawn outside.

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

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

Set up a defensive perimeter, and we'll move out for home at false dawn.

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

False dawn faded, and the light seemed to take forever to return.

I can sense the false dawn in the east.

I've seen too many false dawns to get my hopes up!

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

False dawn had begun to creep in from the east.

False dawn was just beginning, and the guards were at their most relaxed.

He looked around now in the semi-dark of false dawn.

Sure enough, there on the horizon was the first hint of false dawn.

It was a false dawn before the country's blackest hours.

One of life's greatest and least expensive treasures is false dawn.

He arrived back at the glade in the false dawn.

He woke for good in the pale gray of false dawn.

The fire behind us cast a semblance of false dawn.

For the temporary-help industry, as with the general economy, there has been a false dawn or two.

They came in the false dawn, quietly creeping to the edge of the open space.

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