Already they had tampered with the sequence of events in that Marshall had had no preliminary quarrel, and he was taking another with him into the vat, and Sanden, instead of Marshall's dad, was to do the chipping out in the chilly pre-dawn hour.

With the shelling of the city temporarily ceased, the streets funneled a surge of pedestrian and vehicular traffic trying to get out despite the pre-dawn hour.

He saw Leontes and the Excubitors emerging from the barracks into the shadows of the pre-dawn hour.

When she staggers out of bed, at some ridiculous pre-dawn hour, I have to make her trip over an unaccountably uncluttered expanse of floor before she sees that something is missing: the usual mess.

In light of the continued ferment over the issue of indecency, the Justices' quick action today in refusing to hear the challenge to Section 16a of the Public Telecommunications Act of 1992, limiting indecent programming to late-night and pre-dawn hours, was somewhat surprising.

Only half awake in that grey pre-dawn hour in front of the shaman's house, Tabor heard Gereint's words, and everything changed.

Despite the pre-dawn hour, a convoy of several thousand cars filled with Mexican fans followed the orca as he crossed the city to the airport.

Even its immense, brightly lit lobby was still in the pre-dawn hour.

Despite these changes, the show's ratings fell and many stations (including former flagship WNBC in New York) moved the show to either pre-dawn hours or other non-prime time access slots and dropped it in Spring 1976.

The street very quiet in the pre-dawn hour, no lights anywhere on this side of the consulate, a haze of gnats floating below the lamp near the sand-bin.