The truck bumped along country roads while the crimson dawn crept out from the woodland.

Beyond the colony the ragged mountains towered over them, stark and broken in a crimson dawn.

They rose betimes, in the dark crimson dawn, from the opulent palace-beds in which they had slept; for much remained to be done.

Out of the crimson dawn came a flying speck that grew to a bat, then to an eagle.

Then somehow, impossibly, a new crimson dawn.

Night's darkness was receding reluctantly west, edged back by the crimson dawn, and the light washed over the huddled forms of the besiegers like blood.

Black feathers exploded in the crimson dawn.

The night had passed, and the snow; crimson dawn was breaking over the Hellers outside his window, showing snowclad peaks flashing red sunlight.

The cool night bathes the world as with a river, and prepares his eyes again for the crimson dawn.

Last night's rain had quenched most of the fires in the city, but many still smoked, bathing the city in a crimson dawn.