"dim <someone's> daylights", 1800

[Victor Steinbok]

That should have been 1886, not 1889.

VS-)

On 8/23/2011 2:38 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> ...
> http://goo.gl/H6d0n
> A Fair Maid. Volume 1. By Frederick William Robinson. 1889
> p. 117
>> He looked after her for an instant, even seemed disposed to call to
>> her, as though there were further questions he would put to her
>> before she left him; then he sat down on the seat under the porch,
>> laid bis sunburnt hands upon his knees, and thought the subject out,
>> and his pipe out, and, at last, the daylight out; for when he came
>> back to himself, there were the deepening shadows of the night
>> advancing, and only a red tint lingering in the sky away to the west
>> of him.
>

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