Dewfall

We should also note the fact that the dewfall is a concomitant of cloudless skies. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)

When a priest prays over the Holy Communion bread and wine, he will ask God for blessings "by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewfall." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The dewfall has laid a faint silver over the grasses and the only sound to be heard is the tranquil background murmur of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the revised version, he will instead say: "Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It carries me back to Cornish holidays in childhood; it always felt slightly autumnal there, even in high summer there was that yellow intensity to the sun and that sharp odour in the air, and the heavy, heavy dewfall each night. ❋ Imogen (2009)

The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight ❋ Kiki (2008)

Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life. ❋ Unknown (2003)

With a touch imperceptible as dewfall, she touched her brother's mind and sharpened his inner longing with restlessness. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)

Cool though the night air was they slept soundly and comfortably in the open and awoke a few hours later with the light dewfall feeling refreshed but hungry. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1980)

It is quite true that owing to the rapid evaporation of water in the comparatively thin atmosphere of Mars, the dewfall for quite a radius from the center of the reservoirs is considerable, with the result that vegetation springs up, giving the "Oases" the appearance of a diameter of about 75 miles. ❋ J. L. Kennon (N/A)

The dewfall on each side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most prolific. ❋ J. L. Kennon (N/A)

Many species of insects are most active after dewfall, -- such, especially, as spend a great portion of their lifetime in the air. ❋ Various (N/A)

Back and forth we went from the clothes-line to the house, and from the house to the clothes-line, until the quilts were safely housed from the coming dewfall and piled on every available chair in the front room. ❋ Eliza Calvert Hall (N/A)

No whit of harm had come upon them, but within the furnace it was most like as when in the summer season the sun shineth, and the dewfall cometh at dawn, scattered by the wind. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is much lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8 pounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth, evaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall, as a consequence of much moisture being in the air, is very great. ❋ J. L. Kennon (N/A)

The dewfall on each side is extensive. and the vegetal growth which extends the full length of the waterways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most prolific. ❋ A Martian (1920)

Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is much lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8 pounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth, evaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall. as a consequence of much moisture being in the air, is very great. ❋ A Martian (1920)