1.   A small flock of evening grosbeaks flew over, and at first light I heard chickadees and goldfinches.

2.   At all events, she was awake with the first streaky light of dawn.

3.   At the end of a long gash An atrocity through the lace of first light I sit with the reeking instrument.

4.   But until first light, how would he fend off the terrors of the darkness?

5.   Christmas morning I woke with the first blue light.

6.   In the pale first light of dawn I pulled off beside a lake in the state of Vera Cruz.

7.   It was black as night at new moon and white as frost at first light.

8.   Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light.

9.   The Caribou took off at first light.

10.   The first light of day began to filter through grey clouds above, giving visibility that rose steadily to three hundred yards.