Outside, the dawn sunlight had given way to low dark cloud that was sitting there thinking of some way to unload snow over the city.

Kilkijan said: "You will recognize me by two rays of dawn sunlight: one over my right shoulder, the other in front of me".

"Have no fear," said Baldric, who was honing the blade of his hunting - knife as the dawn sunlight streamed through the open window.

Just a single swan in the dawn sunlight, a graceful portent, perhaps, of spring.

The ship dropped through the dawn sunlight, shot under the shadow of the mountain, and landed on the promontory near the ruined temple.

His eyes were wide, although his face was so dirty that even with the dawn sunlight I could not make out much more than that.

Touched red by the dawn sunlight they saw two white seabirds passing overhead.

Then they waited, watching the black-armoured mercenaries riding down the hill in the golden dawn sunlight.

She closed the blinds against the dawn sunlight and took him to a bedroom.

If he'd looked back over his shoulder, he would have seen them at the gate house balcony, already at work in the thin dawn sunlight.