“Seriously? The moon landings were all faked? Someone should take away your Internet.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One midnight she decided, up in the sweltering loft, I am going to survive—and the next midnight she was in the swamp, tracking after the moon in stolen shoes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The road winds through farmland that looks like a rough quilt in the glow of the rising moon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge moon rose and the smaller mold-colored moon and they were joined by a ruby-red moon, and the grey wolf ran at a steady lope beneath them across the desert of bones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Instead he feigned great interest in the . clouds and he cried, “That cloud which hangs upon the left horn of the new moon speaks of rain. It will come not later than tomorrow night.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Siddhartha’s sympathy and curiosity lay only with people, whose work, troubles, pleasures and follies were more unknown and remote from him than the moon. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the full moon, the shock and hurt on her masked face hit me like a blow to the chest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus’ journey to America or the Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside I feel swollen like an absolute full moon. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sinking moon was obscured by a great sailing cloud, but suddenly it rode out clear again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Until the full moon. That way we can have a party all night,” Masvita replied. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon made a halo around his head, and only the soft reflected glow from the ice kept his face from being lost in shadow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, I emerge from under the truck, into the moon- light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my children had been baptized the country way, within the first cycle of the moon after their birth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t need the moon or the sun in here. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I looked into the sky and felt as if the moon was following us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Magic was not mentioned in the song that built the world, but rather had arrived in the world much later, in the light from the stars and moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I got a nice letter from Charles Lindbergh, who thought that my flight around the moon by myself must have been similar to his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the earth travels twenty miles per second, it pulls the moon with it through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fish, the pale silver color of the moon, circled in the bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon might be up in the pastel aqua blue overhead while the sun flamed orange in the west, and other kids, younger boys and girls on bikes, might also stop by. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a full moon, the shadows of all those mountain peaks was something to see. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising behind one mountain and the sun sinking behind another as Jon struck sparks from flint and dagger, until finally a wisp of smoke appeared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had wide, black eyes and a birthmark on her forehead in the shape of a crescent moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The moon is framed perfectly in the window, a crescent of white against black, and I can see by its clearness that it isn't snowing anymore. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Under a sky peopled with millions of stars and a glaring moon, the sledges bumped and clattered over the ruts and stones until they reached clear snow at the edge of town. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“But I didn’t scream; the moon came out,” answered Buttercup somewhat triumphantly. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A picture on the menu showed crispy fish, moons of lemon, mounds of rice. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s father had stepped into a dark room and, on a white screen, he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon, moaned in the alto and tenor registers as though the little death were upon them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here I can see the outline of the playground, entirely dark except for the highlights of the moon. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The ceiling, which had somehow become curved, was filled with little round moons. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone round and full in the deep night sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Words such as “morning” “afternoon” “moon,” etc. are also good candidates for substitution. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You think white people are the only ones who dream about going to the moon?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you something. Unbeknowst to herself, she’s put a spell on her husband. He moons around her like a sick duck. I don’t think he’s given the twins a thorough good look yet.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there stood the poor lady against a moon as bright as the sun. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far off in the West the full moon was sinking, round and white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

No one had ever worried about germs in empty space, but now we were going to touch the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was foggy and cold out and still so dark you could see the stars and a sliver of the moon, but soon, the sun would rise over the Boggy Crone River. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like the tides just hit Wednesday night, like one of those tsunamis, one-shot deal. • • Tides are twice a day, every day. Full moons will really be killers.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was small for one who had lived so many suns and moons, but quick as a cricket. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a soft effulgence in the east The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant restless water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point to the ceiling, and she somehow just knows whether I’m talking about the ceiling fan, the moon, or the dark spot where the rain leaked through during the last thunderstorm. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It did indeed become very dark again; for the moon passed westward into thick cloud, and Pippin could not see anything a few feet away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at Darlene’s hands covering her face in the moon and lamplight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen said it was T. Ray’s way of mooning the entire world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue turned down between strawberry rows and upended her bucket on the compost heap, glanced at the moon so that its blue light caught her face, then returned to the house by a different route. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the little boards he shaped in a lovely curve, and around its edges he carved leaves and flowers and stars, and through it he cut crescent moons and curlicues. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her stories about Venice, Prosper’s mother had always talked about the moon—how it could make dreams come true. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On clear, warm nights, especially when the moon showed me the way, I would make the climb in the dark. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Martin’s tapestry, back here at the Abbey? How marvelous! I’ll bet old Methuselah is over the moon to have it back once more.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the center of her forehead, she had a birthmark in the shape of a crescent moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Because the moon, at least, was still beautiful. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Here in America, when we look at the moon, the dark parts form a face. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Their skin was dark brown like his, but transparent, and their curly dreadlocks were the color of a pale silver-white moon. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Tortoises, mountains holding moons, and needles under the sea? I would not even pretend to understand what you are asking,” the king replied. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Galileo was right: the moons of Jupiter were a promising way of measuring longitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I draw the sun teaching the moon how to shine. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a rainbow halo around the moon, partially cut off by dark clouds. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For an instant Sam stood his ground, his face as round and pale as the moon behind him, his mouth a widening O of surprise. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The next night, the moon, like Turkey’s future flag, was a crescent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They studied the movements of the moon and planets and predicted eclipses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the bright light of the moon, the monkeys glanced slyly at them and stole over to the rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place to stay away from, not a place where a young girl should lay about and sip broth, even if her grandfather was mooning over her nurse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go there every night as, gradually, the moon goes through its cycle. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Your eyes are black and sparkly. Usually. But just now they were two pale moons. That isn’t regular. Or, I’m pretty sure it isn’t regular.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Coach is over the moon, pumping his fists like a champ. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How I wished I could be the moon, watching everything from the safety of the distant sky. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They had no moon to guide them home, and only now and then a patch of stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re going bowling!” said Tiffany in a bright voice, as if going bowling meant flying to the moon. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mist lay there, pale-glimmering in the last rays of the sickle moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In some way my journey was like that of the moon—although I had even more thick clouds coming my way to make my spirit dull. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Walt was appointed test director and section head for the Surveyor 1 mission, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun went down and gave way to the moon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

From time to time the moon shone eerily through the window. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that meant that the moon ought sometimes to appear twice as big as at other times! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he said, if, as Galileo claimed, there were mountains on the moon, Bruno had been partly right—maybe the moon was inhabited, and life was not confined to the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were not permitted to explore the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dahomeyan raiders kidnapped the men first, then returned to her village the next moon for the women and children, marching them in chains to the sea two by two. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the summit of the slope she looked for the last time at the Dust stream, with the clouds and the wind blowing across it and the moon standing firm in the middle. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He paused as he remembered how certain he’d been that those great minds were figuring out how to get the moon back in place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The nested Pythagorean solids also made no allowance for the existence of the Earth’s moon, and Galileo’s discovery of the four large moons of Jupiter was also discomfiting. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the huge body coming blackly through the moon- glare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon escapes from the clouds, and I suddenly feel naked. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Xan looked up at the sky, feeling the light of the moon falling across her face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In these times, The sliced moon hangs In the sky, moon That is orange, The color of A face in the porchlight. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is ambiguity, and some symbolism, in the elaborate ritual observed by each returning expedition of astronauts from the moon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone in the rocking horse’s eye, and in the mouse’s eye, too, when Tolly fetched it out from under his pillow to see. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The planet earth produces no light of its own, but merely reflects sunlight, just as the moon does. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the front door and then looked at the moon, which was three-fourths full and waning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The coyotes nuzzled along the slopes and, torn with sorrow-joy, raised their heads and shouted their feeling, half keen, half laughter, at their goddess moon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had been bom on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, coming back from the moon, I could look out my spacecraft window and see a crescent earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how, if we’re that stupid, did we get to the moon and help build a space station? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

With the moon already rising on the surface, there was no time for a proper breakfast. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sierra squinted into the shifting luminescence of the moon’s reflection, trying to adjust her eyes, and then she was sure of it: A glow was rising beneath her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was the cold chill hour before the first stir of dawn, and the moon was low. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a black night, with a thin sliver of moon appearing and disappearing as the clouds blew past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A wind skimmed the water, and Minli could see her anxious face as pale and as white as the moon reflected in it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

During the first moon walk I was watching television at a friend's house in Florida when a car ran off the road and hit the side of the house. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The moon shone brightly, the night was quiet and crisp, already an autumnal tinge rode the air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was still up in the sky, or half of it was. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent and the wind harsh. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You may look and then you must go and not come back. I cannot have you in my shop every day mooning over what you have lost.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Moths hover, batting their wings at the streetlights; the moon is almost full. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The moon came out from behind a cloud. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She could talk about the earth and the sun and the moon and the planets, and a few stars, and not much else. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha stood there unmoving, his arms folded; the moon shone on his bare shinbones. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the moon and the bonfire, my hallucination’s practically in high def. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of clouds masked the stars and the moon, and it was very dark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Torches flickered atop its ramparts, and the homed moon danced upon the dark waters of its moat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We all said, A man on the moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of this group of fourteen, three would orbit the earth, three orbit the moon, four walk on the moon, and four would get killed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seashells, she’d said, are Our Lady’s favorite items, next to the moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Charles Chiltington knew the answer: “It was the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

If roaches talked, and bats played ball games, then probably there was a cow jumping a moon somewhere, too. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the garden, by the moon’s fight, I soon found the plant I sought. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The moon hung low over a ridge lined with pines and oak trees. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then she takes off and flies around the moon, and I get that feeling like I've just gone over one of those hills in a car, at just the right speed. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That night, Klaus was the Baudelaire orphan sleeping fitfully in the bed, and Violet was the Baudelaire orphan staying up, working by the light of the moon. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The stars seemed brighter up here, so close that she could almost touch them, and the homed moon was huge in the clear black sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The moon rose over the wall of Resthaven, painting the quiet msasa trees with silver and trailing a bright shimmer on the stream at the valley’s heart. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the moon rose they had traveled several miles, and they had come to the edge of a small lake which the track skirted. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consulting a colleague named Robert Harrington, he concluded that what he was looking at was a moon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I realize that what makes the moon so spectacularly beautiful from down here on Earth might look ugly, jagged, and scarred up close. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t promise the moon will return to its place, that things will ever be normal again.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As they reached the first of the houses, Lyra looked to the right and left, peering hard into the dimness, for the Aurora was fading and the moon still far from rising. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is round and full tonight, and it casts a dim light on this neighborhood where the whole block is lined with tall trees and brownstones. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the picture before: Earth rising above the surface of the moon. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

August gazed at the sky where the moon was rising, large and ghostly silver. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern had been good earlier, watching and listening as the space shuttle orbited around the moon, taking its time to fire off another rocket to land. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The moon was lowering, and a purple radiance grew in the eastern horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

These were supposed to keep any moon germs inside with us, so that we would not contaminate the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between ten and twenty minutes later, with Neves’s body already growing cold, the track physician decided to take a shot at the moon and injected Neves’s heart with adrenaline. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It, not the moon, is the place I wanted to go as a child, and I have never lost my interest in it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“About that cyclorama you ordered? The one with the evil moon?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Others are romantic comedies, a meet-cute ruined by mishaps and bad timing, finally leading to a kiss atop a tall building—the metropolis glimmering in the background, moon rising, love song playing over the credits. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Pinmei knew, of all the wonders she had seen on her journey, this rainbow by the light of the moon was the loveliest of them all. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The waning quarter moon seemed larger than the sun. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I know if this hologram of theirs is astronomically correct, then behind the moon, I’ll find... The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The idea was to expose the mice to the moon rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish there was a moon tonight,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon burns dull white and winks light over their gilded frames. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They began to ride out over the sands, with the moon lighting their way. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon made me think about Mamá too, looking over her shoulder, crying for her loss, waiting for the day when she would see us walk through the door again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Of her telling me I hung the moon even when I didn’t deserve it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Above him, the moon receded and disappeared again behind clouds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

These eleven were the major events, and they were hooked together like a fragile daisy chain looped around the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A face wide and round like the moon gaped down at him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Put the moon back. We can’t trade Amah for the moon. We...the emperor...have no right to take it.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed wisest for Otto and me to leave during the night, but with clouds shielding the sliver of moon, the dark was near absolute. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lamps, five of them, formed a solemn constellation of moons around the pond. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

As the moon rose above the grasslands, Dany slipped at last into a restless sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cholla and juniper shivered in the wind, and the rumps of the two gray mules were twin moons in front of him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life, Mariam saw how the sighting of the new crescent moon could transform an entire city, alter its rhythm and mood. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The moon of the Lunas,” my uncle remarked, breaking the silence of the entire trip. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the hill, she paused and looked up at the house, and the windows were dark, reflecting only the heavy moon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had almost set; it was the darkest hour of night. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The compound was littered with moons, one in each mud puddle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean the one with the plain moon?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now night had come on, rough, with no moon, but a nightlong downpour setting in, the rainwind blowing hard from the west. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's no moon, the sky is dark and empty, and the back yards are so lonesome it feels creepy and exciting—the truth is, I've never been out alone at this time of night. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neil replied that he was honored and privileged to be on the moon, representing the United States and men of peace from all nations. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stay with him until the moon has set and my eyes are drooping and Schillinger takes over at the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the moon came out again we could see white villas on the shore on the slopes of the mountain and the white road where it showed through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We think they don't have eyes, but they see the angle of the sun and the rise of the moon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Remember those awesome moon bounces with the big slides from last year? I hope they get those again,” Mamadou says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Three who did not seem to be related to anything but the moon. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the only light was the moon staring down from the night sky. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark without moon or stars a drawn blade gleamed, as if a chill light had been unsheathed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I searched for the moon and found it all in one piece, still spilling light over the creek. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring moon was high and bright, and the night was clear. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They took sparks from Muspelheim and placed them in the sky as the sun, moon, and stars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, under the light of a three-quarter moon, roughly 150 supporters, including students from both Maybeck and Oakland High Schools, marched along the route of the 57 bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, Des Moines is a lot closer than that moon. Fact is, I bet a fella in Des Moines can see the same moon you’re looking at right now. Doesn’t that just beat all?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A made-up birthday, a dance after toiling under the harvest moon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Although I hadn’t had a seizure since May, the night of the perigee moon—which was now one hundred million miles behind me—I felt disconnected and drained. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The night seemed a little less dark when she looked out, and to the east there was a lightning in the sky, down near the horizon where the moon would show. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, I thought as the moon’s light blinded me, and the shadows grasped at me with green-brown fingers, I didn’t expect to see you here. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, I stare at my sky square, in which a thin slice of moon is glowing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Of forest lore he had studied deeply, and Taran listened in wonder as Adaon told the ways and natures of woodland creatures, of bold badgers and cautious dormice and geese winging under the moon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I can tell a story about the moon snail.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The moon was high and bright, but seeing past the waves was a trick. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the moon rose, she would be able to capture at least a little bit of its magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even the moon would not look at it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to get into orbit around the moon, we had to slow down, or else we would have shot right on by it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, despite feeling like the moon had just crashed into the ocean and been swallowed, I managed to give the reporters what they wanted. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lit by the pale glow from the nearly full moon, Horn Rock rose like a giant gray tusk from the edge of the bluff and jutted up into the night sky. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then it would fire its engine and slow down enough to be captured by the moon’s gravity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m sure it wouldn’t have been the same if the astronaut had said “The Spider has landed” when they first touched down on the moon’s surface. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Having observed the moon, Galileo turned his telescope to Jupiter and discovered that Jupiter had moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A sickle moon threaded itself into the silk. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But when I looked beyond our life on the islands, he became the moon itself, bent on tugging me back, as if I were made of sea instead of blood. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When my ship reached Syrinx, I saw the twin moons, By-Tor and Snow Dog, that orbited the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And they saw the moon’s reflection displayed in a pail of water—never mind that it was daytime—and it wasn’t for sale but “free” for whoever was able to catch it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A full moon rose again in the starry sky: it had been a month since he had set forth from the oasis. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb sat on the porch steps, turning his moon snail shell over and over in his hand. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

As they strained, Minli wondered if they were bringing down the moon itself. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the young moon rising; under its thin light there loomed before him a black wall of rock, pierced by a dark arch like a great gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We did the same thing with the moon on Apollo, but in that case we had to lead the moon only by three days’ worth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night when the moon appeared in the sky, I would lie on the ground outside and quietly watch it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The moons and ringed planet have not moved. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turned around and the light hit her and I could see how gray her skin was and how dark the moons were ringing her eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The moon came out from behind a thick cloud. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Lee Scoresby’s ghost looked through and saw a wide, quiet prairie under a brilliant moon, so very like his own homeland that he thought he’d been blessed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun’s dying red glow vanished, replaced with the rising full moon’s pale light through the skeletal trees. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

No moon rose beyond the murk and there was nowhere to go. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted my sisters to see the astronauts on the moon almost as badly as I had wanted them to see the Jackson Five on TV for the first time. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Everything felt strange, alien, as if she were on another planet, as if she were on the moon. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge cloud of black dust swelled into the sky, and even the moon ceased to exist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Last year they were Robert's men. A moon ago they were Renly's. This morning they are yours. Whose will they be on the morrow?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Got to. It’s clear finally. And no moon. It’s an intergalactic gorge fest up there.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Once Jon thought he saw a pair of glowing eyes on a ledge overhead, as big as harvest moons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sun and moon and stars had been gone so long that Asha was starting to wonder whether she had dreamed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Second, in an appendix to the sunspot book, Galileo made his only clear and unambiguous published statement of support for Copernican ideas, using the example of the moons of Jupiter to support his case. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our parents were probably already on the moon, and were coming to the hospital the next morning. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the dim light of the moon, Minli could see its eyes glower with malevolence. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Further, the sun, the moon, and the planets followed precise paths across the sky that could be predicted in advance with considerable accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought: Why is the moon coming at us? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Creating a stable calendar was a problem for most ancient peoples, because they generally started out with a lunar calendar: the length of a month was the time between successive full moons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s when he and the king go out to the garden, alone, at night, when the moon rises.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were to be no moon men at all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sang, “Mary, star of the sea, Mary, brightest moon, Mary, comb of honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the arched windows of Mother Ermentrude’s chamber and peer out into the night There, wooded hills, lit by the moon, slope gently beyond the convent walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If Venus was, similarly, an opaque body, it would, like the moon, have phases. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sky was too clear and the moon too bright. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And shortly the sky was black, without a moon . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love that you included the golden ratio and the shells on the beach with the holes in them,” Ms. Solomon said about the moon snail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t say, “And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mars does have two small moons, and a major geological feature on the larger of them is today called the Kepler Ridge in honor of this guess. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night he saw the stars in the heavens and the sickle-shaped moon floating like a boat in the blue. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa says it would be a favor and the man says if Pa asked for the moon he’d fly up and bring it back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She held the sieve up to her face and looked at the moon through it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was dark now, and the moon had risen above the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The pair left the shop and remounted their creatures, Isagol holding up her bracelet so the moons tinkled like bells. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He chatted more easily with Hazel—not stealing those wistful, mooning glances that had always made Frank uncomfortable. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He must be on the moon by now.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moon set about 4:00 a.m. today and it must have been down by the time he got back to England. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Friday nights under a full moon that filled the black satin sky with a light as soft and delicate as the flickering of a candle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The unicorns are the moon's creatures," said the driver. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just as if he were cupping the moon, a clear, soft brightness spilled from his hands and poured into the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

High above him the stars glittered and gleamed, and the harvest moon shone golden yellow, the color of ripe corn. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a field of waving sea grasses dotted with chrysanthemum flower anemones, but beyond that there was a silver glow in the darkening sky, as if the moon were rising. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The frail light of the moon threw metallic rays across their bodies, and Jean de Satigny shivered at the sight of Blanca, who at that moment seemed to him the image of perfection. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company of the trees and the moon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I smile at her and say, “Look at that moon.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we flew across the surface of the moon, I couldn’t sleep. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lavender sky above us shimmers with light even though I can’t see the sun or the moon. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a starlit night and the moon shimmered on the canal behind the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon saw how beautiful they were and how much in love, and gave them a baby for their very own. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

To him the most feared soldier ever created was the pilot who came at night, hiding from the cast-eyed light of half moons, coming winged and unannounced out of the black, out of the void. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the city lights are on in this area, but the moon is bright enough that I can walk by it without too much trouble. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were no streetlamps here and little foot traffic, nothing but the bright moon and the smallboats bumping against their moorings. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The clouds were low, but the half moon was lower still and shone a gray, feeble light on their quilted undersides. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And right inside the lovely celestial curve as it grew was the thing Alice mentioned, the great building gleaming white under the moon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Or: “If the moon is so big, Frau Elena, how come it looks so little?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were on a narrow street of low brownstones, with the moon sitting just above them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The terrace sloped to the lawns, and the lawns stretched to the sea, and turning I could see the sheet of silver, placid under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Heart of the moon, jewel of the sea, depending on which foreign language you’re using. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was behind him; he looked dowm into die black shadow of the mesa, into the black shadow of death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when the moon neared the bright star, a cloud got in the way. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose there were germs on the moon, and suppose when we brought them back on our clothes and bodies, we discovered that they killed earth plants or animals or people? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is a bright sliver out my window. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They called the moon la bella luna here, as if she were a beautiful lady. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the mare stumbled and threw him hard against the saddle horn, and he realized how deceptive the moonlight was; exposed root tips and dark rocks waited in deep shadows cast by the moon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Alabama only lights I saw at night were the moon and stars. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

This time there is a moon, at least, he thought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Although there was no moon that night, it was clear, the sky was bright and I could see the road plainly. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I turned off my lamp and moved aside the limp curtains, thinking of Ned and looking for the big orange harvest moon he’d written of. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A sliver of a moon made some light but very little of it came into the darkened cabin. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tongue slipped out from under the darkness and into the light of the moon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Watches, jewelry, paintings, statues, and moon rocks piled up on the lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the cluster of houses behind, I looked up at the moon and tried listening to her sighs. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was no moonlight between the trees, but the unicorn glimmered and shone with pale light, like the moon, while the girl herself glittered and glowed as if she trailed a dust of lights. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They left quietly in the dark before the moon had risen. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Maa and Baap talking together so late in the night that the moon slid up and down in the sky. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I let my imagination wander, seeing the first explorers on the moon as they worked their way back to their station after a day of walking among craters and plains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Man of the Moon with his bag of red threads, the Spirit of the Mountain holding up the moon as only he could...Pinmei recognized them all. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the dæmon at the casement. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

As our elevator finished its brief journey, I realized that our trip to the moon had already begun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he grinned it was the moon shining down on her, a presence in the sky blessing her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And the night, far from being frightful, was lovely beyond thought, for the stars were close, and although there was no moon the starlight made a silver glow in the sky. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would need to brew some moon tea or risk bringing another kraken into the world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Verne wrote a fascinating make-believe story about a trip to the moon, and many of his ideas came close to the way the Apollo flights actually took place. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delicate equilibrium of periodical filth between two moons balanced. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he thought, It’s the night and the moon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If someone wanted to live on the moon more or less permanently, that person would probably have to put up a plastic bubble, fill it with air, and stay inside it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In May 1938, Time magazine called him “the brightest moon that has risen over Broadway in years.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But Galileo was familiar with Plutarch, who had claimed that the moon had a landscape of mountains and valleys. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She left that night—the full moon gave its blessing and guidance through the forest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But she sees the camper from Portland across the way, lit up and glowing like the moon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He bent under the disappointed moon, hands braced on his knees, panting into the warm summery air, wanting to give himself a beating for letting the man get away. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He feels wrapped up and warm, turning slowly under the moon. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My vision blurs in and out of focus as I strain to make the two moons floating up in the sky into one. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That one will be this month, June! When is the full moon due in June, Constance?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Relief because without it we would never reach the moon, and tension because now we were committed, and turning back would be almost impossible. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat checked his nautical almanac closely, hunting for the first night the moon promised to be in a good position for a lunar. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, the emissary and the soldiers watched the paper lift higher and higher in the night sky, until it overlapped the moon and disappeared. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

No solid contour was certain, but all devolved with the evening into one crabbed mass, gnarled and dark beneath the moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Today’s message: There are three things you can’t hide from: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nyla waves her arms, and in an instant, just like when we stood among Earth and the moon and Halley’s Comet on the night of the party, Sagan’s surface suddenly surrounds us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And on Port Meadow at the full moon there’s a werewolf that comes out from the old nunnery at Godstow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the moon, it looked like it was melting off! Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also after lights-out if there is a bright enough moon. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was allowed to fly airplanes again, and I hoped to be assigned to a flight crew, but my first job was to help with the flight of Borman-Lovell-Anders to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was the true miracle that night, the first of June—the month, as Magister Reese could have told her, named for Juno, the Roman goddess of the moon, of women, and of childbirth. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had come out again, and in its silver light they saw the entrance to a cave half hidden behind the undergrowth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I’m imagining us swimming through the night sky to the bright moon and hoping I remember the image in the morning so I can make it and give it to her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There’s her face again, a blurred reflection of a moon, behind the front window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A baby with a birthmark in the shape of a crescent moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You’re an Aspirant. You have a Trial to take tomorrow. Your life will be on the line, and instead you’re mooning over some Scholar.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, he is going to launch him toward the heavens where el Conejo’s outline will remain on the surface of the moon, so all are reminded of the mightiness of such a tiny creature. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the moon was full like a cantaloupe, he and Hamameh’s husband appeared. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The moon was still shining as brightly as ever, and there were still plenty of huge shimmering cloud-mountains on all sides. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Coming out of the cairn, it looked like the clouds had been peeled back and the moon pumped up like a big, yellow balloon, so bright I almost had to squint. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Later that night, the moon is a sliver in the sky, shining like a luminescent potato peel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the moons one more time, the smaller one chasing the larger one, two brightnesses up there, still light enough to cast shadows, ignorant of the troubles of men. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was impure and her body, round as the moon, was still the temple. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She sat like a little crescent moon in the curve of his arm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed away over the land of Rohan into the darkling West under the sickle moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I became fascinated with the different shapes that I saw inside the moon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The moon winks light across the golden pier. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as far as I’m concerned, a moon is a moon, and they all bear remarking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the clearing he expected to see them: some standing, others lying down, the color of their hides reflecting the moon like snow on the mountain peaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The full moon killing the sun...I’m just saying here we are, being lured out to some creepy place, basically chasing the moon, right? Or its reflection anyway.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The hooded man lifted his pale moon face, and Jon slashed at it without hesitation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The moon on a bracelet and the sun in a jar,” said Sarai. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The moon rose into the sky like a lost balloon. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Jumping over the moon. It might have an effect. Worth trying, anyway.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The next day, the Welch Daily News said Luna I had missed the moon, but by a mere 3,728 miles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its way through patches of clouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it’s going to be a long, long time before astronomers or anyone else begins to live on the moon inside bubbles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The moon’s getting full, too. You know how it gets.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The moon didn’t seem to be getting much bigger, but the earth was definitely shrinking. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the portcullis there came a sorrowful howling to bear out Sir Grummore’s statement, as it had been thirty couple of hounds baying the moon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moose was standing in the water among the lily pads on the far shore, his great antlered head and humped neck silhouetted clearly against the pale moon. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the clouds eased up and let loose of the moon’s light, I could see the cap’n plain and clear. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, like the light when the clouds move away from the moon, Minli knew clearly what question to ask. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A pitted moon stands on their crests as if impaled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, the moon smiled goodbye and slipped away. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And we will begin your training. With the sands of the moon, you will be able to learn the songs with no danger to your being.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I badly want it to be my moon, the same one I see from the woods around District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The moon, floating above us, scraped against the clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the cricket chirped, the whole scene came back to Mama: the still, warm night, the moon shining down on the velvety Bay of Naples, and Papa singing to her. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is truly the most hostile environment this side of the moon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After checking all their equipment, they were ready to leave earth orbit for the first time in history, and again the Saturn V put them on a perfect path for the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers finally closed on the door handle and only then, as I was climbing out of the car, the moon came out from behind a cloud and I saw the house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Moon: “The moon sees everything, but says nothing.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The moon is so bright I can look down the field and see the things called cows and sheep and I wonder why they don’t go home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They probably just wanted to make us laugh a little bit so we wouldn’t be too nervous about landing on the moon for the first time ever. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between these lampposts my shadow on the winter snow would stretch ahead of me, double, shrink again and disappear, the lamps casting their haloes around them like the moon in fog. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, rifling through the basket to find my favorite board, the one with La Luna, the moon, in the right corner block. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At first there were bright lights moving about in a black sky; Digory always thinks these were stars and even swears that he saw Jupiter quite close—close enough to see its moon. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The dumbest part is that then he tells me that he doesn’t believe anyone ever actually landed on the moon!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He imagined his father, once upon a time, as a little boy, sitting in the dark, watching this very same movie, staring into the face of the man in the moon. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Still we run, tracking by the good full moon to sanctuary. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But it seemed like that might not ever happen; once the sun set the moon feebly took over, lighting the low thick clouds and setting them faintly aglow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced up to the clear sky with its bright, full moon. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually it grew darker and darker, and then a pale three-quarter moon came up over the tops of the clouds and cast an eerie light over the whole scene. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He might as well sit forever on his riverbank and stare out of the window at the moon. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that everyone must know and have heard of Lotus, forgetting how only a short two summers’ moons before he had not known she lived. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It frightened her because she felt that he was reaching for the moon and that he would, therefore, be dashed down against the rocks; but she did not say any of this. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The pandemonium of thunder and lightning vanished behind us as, for just a few seconds, we were bathed in the cold, clean light of the full moon. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like contemporary astrologers, the Olmec, Maya, and Zapotec believed that celestial phenomena like the phases of the moon and Venus affect daily life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl living on the edge of a crescent moon, staring down at the earth and not missing it at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The waxing moon rose earlier each night, though Xan did not pay it much mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were like the moon: distant enough not to enter her thoughts too often; bright enough to inspire wonder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Ratliffs own the moon that floats over the lake, and the sun and the clouds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was missing its bottom half, which stayed on the moon, after acting as a launching pad for the top half. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the very middle of the night, he could tell from the position of the moon. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The moon from earlier has gone behind thick clouds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he stopped and waited, letting the minutes tick away as he planned his next progression, gliding like a cloud’s shadow cast upon the ground by the moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In a lifetime, that is enough energy to fly to the moon and back. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I would have more luck trying to steal the moon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So it was not a good way to start this whole trip to the moon, with the seat thumping on Marty’s face, and him going, “Unit! I’m trying to get my bird!” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brilliant glare of the moon the only colors were stark black and dead white, and every edge was jagged and every surface bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the only light came from the moon and it was getting cool enough for Milkman to be grateful for his knit cap. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached up and gathered her starlight and didn’t heed the moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘I shall not stay there long. My way lies now eastward. Look for me in Edoras, ere the waning of the moon!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Leaning out the kitchen window, Shirley and her parents watched the crescent moon drift through the clouds. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was just a sliver, and after I breached the initial overgrowth, the trees became high enough to block out its meager light. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you dive into that lake to try to get the moon, you are!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Moonlight shone on everything, but Nathan couldn’t see where the moon was. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was behind a cloud and, sitting out in the blackness of the yard, she could still smell that cheap vapor-heavy scent of local gin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Better watch out, or else I'll get them to send your butt to the moon! Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peeking through a thin layer of clouds. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were well provided with salt, Bowen Marsh had told him, but the last of the butter would be gone within a moon’s turn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The light of the moon was in her hair, her red hair kissed by fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shipping the animals to the moon couldn’t possibly have been more complicated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When my great- uncle sold the house, after the war, he traveled back to Saint-Malo, and he salvaged the one remaining recording of my grandfather. It was about the moon.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But every weekend, there are at least a handful that catch his ear, and once in a blue moon, there is a singer or a song that makes him jump out of his seat. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sun and the moon might still be gods, but they were gods who obeyed strict laws, apparently without any exceptions, if one discounts stories like that of the sun stopping for Joshua. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was reflected in the water with a glassy brilliance, and the breeze gently stirred the rushes and the treetops. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No ray of sun looked ever on that country, nor the moon by night. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that, for him, the rising moon was all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Very well. I will wait,” the emperor said, and in a more satisfied tone: “What is another moon when I will have eternity anyway?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was the same color as the moon when you’d see it through the smoke of the bullfighter’s incinerator. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted the moon back where it belonged and pessimistic scientists to crawl under rocks. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Have they built cities on the moon?” another boy asked hopefully. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Toby shot his hand to the sky like a plane taking off, framing it against the moon. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Looking up, he saw a thousand stars glittering in the deep velvet of a night with no moon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The clouds parted for the moon then gathered back around her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The moon seemed to tremble as ripples spread over its reflection caught in the water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There is only one possible answer to this question: he was looking for mountains on the moon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with my vision. I can see clear up to the moon from the porch. I can see all the comings and goings and shooting stars.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I turned my back on Buffo and pulled down my pants and gave him a moon. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Is the moon really made of green cheese?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Billy what it had been like, and Billy told him about the horses and the couple picnicking on the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black sea, drop their nets, and, holding their lanterns over the water, they would approximate the moon. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Paqo held up a silver goblet that shone in the clear light of the moon. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The moon directly over Milagro was clear and bright, almost full, the town dully luminous, trees and houses casting shadows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not this time, Counselor Chu. However, I do feel the wish to commune with the moon tonight.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t do anything, except watch. For days. The full moon came and raised the tide. The deeper water helped the shark swim back into the ocean.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the moon and its reflection wavering in the lake, the murky green water rippling in uneasy waves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo handed her the book from the Film Academy library, open to the page with the film still of the rocket in the moon’s eye. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Without someone guiding us,” Zeitoun finished, “wouldn’t the stars and moon fall to earth, wouldn’t the oceans overrun the land? Any vessel, any carrier of humans, needs a captain, yes?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She wished it were she riding a gryphon and sorting through jeweler’s trays for just the right moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The man who had walked on the moon placed his hand on Hugh's shoulder and offered to sign his autograph book. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon began to rise behind the mountains ahead of them, showing them the way through another pass. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He guessed he had the moon to thank for that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moon wasn’t in the sky; the air was stiff, as if nature itself was afraid of what was happening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The man tugged at the short bill of his cap so only the lower half of his face was visible, like a crescent moon, and he turned away. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Come with us tomorrow morning to watch the men land on the moon.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

By then, the moon was well up and the crowd was tired, so the king decreed that the last three matches would be fought the next morning, before the melee. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With it he discovered sunspots, the phases of Venus, the craters of the Moon, and the four large moons of Jupiter now called, after him, the Galilean satellites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as the wide sky became translucently pink and azure with the moon still shining brightly from the center of it, he drove down the hill to Bud Gleason’s house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt somehow that they must abide by the rules of the verse, waiting until day’s first hour on the night of the full moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His study of the moon’s libration shows that he was looking for new observations with which to solve cosmological issues. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I spotted a sliver of moon through a window. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment, grief flicked across Tanin’s face like a cloud passing over the moon. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Yet he remembered the dead boy in the cart with his cloak of crescent moons, and the words were raw in his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Your son did a great service for us," the man said, waving his hand toward the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Out here she understood how she fitted into the scheme of the moon and stars and the constant rise and fall of life on the earth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon falls on his sagging shoulders. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The moon will still be here when they come out, I thought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"In the west, they call that a traitor's moon. Try not to get too drunk tonight, and see that your axe is sharp." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Did you know this is the second brightest moon tonight in more than a century?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a little spooky, because what he drew was identical to what I used to imagine: a pair of Indian moccasins with two moons in them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“After I sell all this, we’ll be able to buy enough zinc dust to go to the moon,” he promised. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were the ancestors of the gigantic Saturn V moon rocket. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite the glowing moon, it was still dark enough for Genie to have a hard time seeing things in the grass, especially something moving as fast as a snake. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to not have to go to the moon house, or walk Vonetta there and stand guard, or carry Fern’s pot there for dumping. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It had happened the same way in the river: the moon had appeared and the rush of water had subsided; the world had been somehow soothed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The father gave an infuriated roar and grabbed the paper from his son, seizing it with such force that he fell backward into the lake, shattering the reflection of the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Starlight sparkled in the barbed wire, and there were curious reflections and layerings of shadow, and the big white moon added resonance. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was what looked like a broad stone buttress there, running the full height of the wall, and at the top it continued into a stack of chimneys, with the moon shining brightly on them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Harry watched the cloudy sky, curves of smoke-gray and silver sliding over the face of the white moon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Now you are the man in the moon!” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the moons rise, the stars following ’em, the same moons and the same stars as were in Prentisstown, still out here past the end of the world. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The one whom he had not been able to protect, to spare, to cover from the round moon glow of the flashlight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if clouds had uncovered the moon, a soft light streamed toward them from a gate down the lane. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He tried to hold on to her, but it was like trying to hold on to smoke or shadow, or—like Sathaz from the folktale—the reflection of the moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Adam is like a moon, standing off to the side, stroking his chin. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The desert heat has faded, and a crescent moon hangs low on the horizon, thin and red as a cannibal’s smile. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One of them has a moon face with blue saucer eyes and a bursting red mouth, the kind Renoir paints. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of his forehead was a great pearl, which gleamed like the moon on a cold, crisp autumn night; but its luster was fading. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon, as always, had moved halfway across the sky by the time I was done with my shopping. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself riding around the world, flying to the moon, coasting down the Milky Way. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

With one sixth earth’s gravity, the moon would be a comfortable place to live. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was forming the yew trees into weird shapes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I sit in the darkness for a long time, watching the shadows shift when the moon does, and I wonder if maybe Mom doesn't really hate me—maybe she doesn't hate any of us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Could two vehicles speeding around earth or moon really find each other, get into the same orbit at the same speed, and gently bring their two craft together? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a thin sliver against the gauzy gray of earliest morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I walked behind August in my bee veil, I felt like a moon floating behind a night cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, standing on the shelf with flowers and leaves and birds and moons carved all around her, and the large star at the very top. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wall loomed before them, glimmering palely in the light of the half moon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were many clear stars, but the fast-waning moon would not be seen till late. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She put the spyglass carefully in her pocket and hooked her arms over the branch in front, gazing at the sky, the moon, the scudding clouds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs— Are we not acceptable, moon? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Just flowers then. And the shine off the back of a dragonfly. I wanted a piece of the moon, but blue-dragonfly-shine was as close as I could get.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the fat moon rose the next night, I planted the mystery seeds I had taken from Momma’s jar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t into the space race, but there was no way I’d miss the moon landing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Dark lay the vale before them, for the moon had passed into the West, and its light was hidden by the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On May 18, with a full moon shining at 2:00 A.M., the Boss decided it was time to go. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To my relief, no revolutionary red star appeared on the moon’s yellow surface. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But both Brother and Mrs. Fowles laughed at that, shaking their heads like Mother had asked if they take their boat to the moon frequently to fetch green cheese. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had grown full without her noticing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Everyone becomes happy and appreciates the moon in their own special way. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful skirt and I finished it on the day after the second moon. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the light of the two moons, the whole valley kinda shines, across the Farbranch buildings and back up into the hills where the orchards are. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In my dream I stood on a sandy beach, my back to the sea, the moon over my left shoulder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I to take it that you are attacking even without the full moon now? This is most unusual... You have developed a taste for human flesh that cannot be satisfied once a month?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the fox went out one winter’s night, And he prayed to the moon to give him light...” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He did not wish to open the curtains and open the french windows, for he did not want the moon to come into the room. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

September 12, 1959: Luna 2 is launched and crashes into the moon on purpose. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember, but it seemed so grainy and unclear, like those films of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By this time, the rocket had used all its fuel, so we separated from it and floated to the moon in the weightlessness of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had disappeared long ago, and there was nothing but darkness to be seen through the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a woman riding on the horse’s bare back, wearing a long grey dress that hung and gleamed beneath the December moon like cobwebs in the dew. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Although they were old stairs, the worn moons in the middle of each step were not very deep. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would begin to unfold, come out, like the moon in half phase. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By using the plants, animals, and tempera­ ture, they had changed the harsh Arctic into a home, a feat as incredible as sending rockets to the moon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras argued that the earth sat at the center of the universe, and the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around the earth, each pinned inside a sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

No light from the moon, stars, or cars along the distant road pierced the inky blackness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, the party is just a family affair because Freak isn't supposed to get overexcited, which is like saying the moon isn't supposed to go around the earth. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fires of Castle Black were hidden behind a hill, but the Wall was there, pale beneath the moon, vast and cold, running from horizon to horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A lock of banshee hair that sang them to sleep whenever the moon was full. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Conor looked at the ground, then up at the moon, anywhere but at the monster’s eyes. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is older than the trips to the moon or computers or stereo systems or television. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Usually you couldn’t see the stars from where they lived, but the moon was visible on clear nights. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dim new moon, which he hadn’t seen while he was in the woods, and Jethro watched it dully as home came closer, step by step. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason we had to practice in helicopters was that the lunar module’s descent to the surface of the moon was very similar to a helicopter’s vertical descent and landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after each day settled into the black sky, my questions rose like the moon, hovering over me all night till I fell asleep. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The moon’s too bright. And I don’t know where she is.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“What if you can’t see the new moon through your window?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a crack in the rocks, I watch the moon cross the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She swung the flashlight around, though with the moon so bright she could see perfectly well without it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She went over it again and again, lying wrapped in the quilt, while outside the moon rose, turning the pond to silver. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt thought the moon rocks looked like something you could find anywhere in the Ajo Mountains, but they came with a certificate and were very expensive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon had set. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the first graders blew bubbles as big as a full moon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The matter in all the satellites and the planets themselves may have been originally distributed in the form of rings, which condensed and accumulated to form the present moons and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just think, it was only sixty-six years from the Wright brothers’ first flight to Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can go to the moon, maybe even to Mars by the time you are of my age." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As each moon goes around its parent planet in a regular orbit, just as the Earth follows a regular one-year orbit around the Sun, each moon ought to be eclipsed behind Jupiter at regular intervals. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The tinfoil suns and moons and stars dangle and twist and reflect the sun’s rays back out into the bigger universe. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

First, he realized that eclipses of the moon were caused by the earth coming between the sun and the moon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behave yourselves and practice adding your moons until I return from my conversation with Lady Constance.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Then she got herself a cup and sat down beside him, her beautiful eyes mooning with pity. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Moon plus moon, two moons,” Cassiopeia explained modestly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I asked, excited to see it even if it did have an evil moon with fangs. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But a round trip to the moon would take over a week, and no one was willing to guarantee that a man’s body wouldn’t somehow be damaged by being weightless that long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the television Mr. Cronkite said they were going to send a rocket ship to the moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The web locks us into place, staring at each other as the moon slithers across the sky and the stars fall asleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They had been walking toward the Capital City, the frozen sea looking exactly as before, even though the Sea King warned them that some time had passed, perhaps as much as three moon cycles. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I can see the stars and the moon and the black sky revolving overhead. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, has an atmosphere about as dense as our own. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had auburn hair gathered back in a ponytail and strange eyes, silvery yellow like the moon. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He showed her the moon and kept her warm and didn’t make her cry, and obviously Sister Fenella must have trusted him to let him hold her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder if there is some way I can turn the many faces of the moon into a science project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They remarked at her fine eyes, dark and glittering as the night sky, her black hair shot with gold, the birthmark on her forehead in the shape of a crescent moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But I was too busy to moon over it much. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Through the shutters of our balconies we watched her; perspiration had already left black moons beneath her armpits. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Can it be that there is a malign influence of the sun at periods which affects certain natures—as at times the moon does others? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A wooded hilltop rose out of the water, a little island all on its own, brightly lit by the low-lying moon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A bunch of football guys have lined up in the bay window and are mooning me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The moon was a bright smile, hovering high to the South. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As they climbed, she could see the glitter of the moon on the sea far off to the left, and its silver-sepia light seemed to envelop her in a cool, skeptical wonder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the wall are topographical maps: the world; the United States; the oceans, Earth, and moon. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Amma's lullaby about the moon climbing over mountains to bring us flowers was a message about how the moon never gives up too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have to worry about very cold regions, because, whether returning from earth orbit or from the moon, our flight path stayed near the equator, where the climate is warm. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked his wrist and the string circle swayed, missing the moon entirely. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Adam said, and his smile reminded Maya of the Cheshire Cat’s, too big to be sincere, a crescent moon too sharp at the edges. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The innermost ones, like the moon, made lower notes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He tried to keep his eyes on the moon, but it blazed too hot and too whitely bright, and it etched its image across his vision. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

If he doesn’t maybe he will come up with the moon. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

February 3, 1966: Unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 lands on the moon. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

All around her, dozens of honeybees whirled like tiny moons in orbit, anchored only by her gravity. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the night wore on and the moon got higher, we were backed up foot by foot until we were only a block from the Empire State Building in any direction. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to these questions, which we hoped Gemini would answer, there were also a number of hazards involved in going to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked at the rising half-full moon; shadows were covering the desert, deepening and darkening the colors of the land and mesas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This girl had a watermelon head and this way of walking—or stomping—that looked like she was skipping rope on the moon; she kind of hopped into the air with every step she took. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Lord Stannis himself was still on the march, but his vanguard had appeared two nights ago during the black of the moon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was indeed warm and fair and no hardship to spend such a night out under the moon and stars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the moon showed occasionally between the clouds, as thin as a slice of lemon. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s a clear sky, the stars out, the moons starting to crescent in the sky above us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t the stars in the sky be planets or moons or suns on their own? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A low, full moon glittered in the sky, and the light spilled through our window like a silver sun. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the mixture of ice and rocks within these outer moons must contain, as do rocks on Earth, traces of radioactive minerals, which heat their surroundings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On nights when there was no moon, we’d light a lamp and gather in our living room. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Other cultures see the moon rabbit, a sort of sideways floppy-eared critter with its hind legs crossed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

We are pulled toward the ground by gravity, gravity keeps the moon in orbit around the earth, and our planet is held captive by the sun because of gravity. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The rain had nearly stopped, leaving us with all this quiet and a sky with no moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the moon that loosened the bindings on the night and the secret wounds held so close. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sun, the moon, the earth, and all those living stars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is no such prominent object on the moon, and scholars have suggested that Galileo deliberately enlarged a crater to enable the viewer to, as it were, zoom in on a tell-tale feature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pressed against the windowpanes were cardboard snowflakes the size of the moon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her form shivered and the ghosts disappeared, leaving us alone with a pit, a Happy Flush septic tank, and a cold full moon. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the moon snail out of the bucket. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The crescent moon birthmark on her forehead glowed a bit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I coaxed and begged her to ride with JimmyTrotter in the station wagon and come over to see the men take off for the moon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Papa said scientists speculated that from the moon, the earth looked blue. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Starlight began to shine again, and the grasses of the hillside were whitened with the light of the moon just rising. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the song is dangerous to humans. I’m only allowed to sing it with Pond and Darkness, when I am protected by moon sand.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The moon crossed the whole horizon, but they did not see it; they were too busy exploring their deepest intimacy, insatiably entering each other’s skins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was chilly and the moon was still out. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

What moon wasn’t already hidden behind clouds was blotted out now by trees, branches filtering its pale light to nil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a moon above us, but it didn’t give us enough light. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

If there should be life on the moon, we must begin by fearing it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, 1 know there was a super moon on Wednesday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cow retreated a few steps and regarded him with watery, mooning eyes that indicated a massively substandard intelligence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the clipper they’d met the Gallivespians, who were strangers from the moon, blown down to the earth by a fierce gale out of the Milky Way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The crescent moon on the child’s forehead dimmed to a pleasant shade of pink, and her dark curls framed her darker eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But fairies were never seen in common daylight, and they preferred the light of the full moon for their hunts and celebrations. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight was very bright, and there were rocks everywhere, and to Buttercup it all looked dead and yellow, like the moon. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For example, if you fly from the earth to the moon, it may just turn out that you arrive at the moon at 4 a.m. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passing of the moons now had come to mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the year. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never yet sat on a rock and sung a song to the moon. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Soon there was only the moon and one star. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I started to think about spacecraft big enough for whole families to be launched—to the moon, Mars, perhaps the stars themselves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was ready to go to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainbow colors shimmered through it, though there was no light in the room except for the moon outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My eyes closed and the moon drew me west, away from the island of my melancholy. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As if it would take witchcraft,” she said with a sniff, “to get Solomon Porritt mooning round my cottage.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Away from the fire, the night is dark—clouds are covering the stars, and there ain’t no moon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They hated sunlight but were too timid to venture out after dark, except during the full moon. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I was sleeping, but when I woke up, there was a full moon outside the car window. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am an elegant fellow in her pictures, with my silver back gleaming like moon on moss. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s also possible that the moon is made of cheese. It’s just not bloody likely.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once, after she said this, Gramps got a dreamy look on his face and Gram said, “Quit that mooning over Gloria. I know what you’re thinking.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was low and over on the left side of the boat, so that the light reflected from the moon bounced off the left side of the hull and down into the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun set, and a huge spring moon appeared, high already in the heavens. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But a short time before the sun slips below the horizon, a pale white moon rises, making things just visible enough. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Compared with us, the moon moves like a glacier in space,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You do not need to understand. Just behave, follow your mother’s example. Light the incense, make an offering to the moon, bow your head. Do not shame me, Ying-ying.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s got a picture on the cover of what looks like the Nile at dusk, with a palm tree lilting left, echoing the brightening moon, and the purple sky rolling up from the horizon. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Because I’m not local and with luck I won’t still be here after the next full moon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The moon smiled on him and guided him, and his golden body burned with such beautiful brilliance that he became a new sun in the heavens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway across she saw a dark head rise above the hill, and a beast with a head as large as the moon rose to its hind feet, massive paws swinging. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut through the crowd, emerging minutes later with two hot moon cakes dripping with chilled cream. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sun sets, the moons rise again, smaller crescents than the night before. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Light shines everywhere: the lanterns and blimp screens and sky candles and a bright rising moon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But it was not green; it was yellow, like the moon. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For even in the misty light, the goldfish man could see her smiling a secret smile up to the sky to where the mountain meets the moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We stand out in the lane watching the moon disappear behind a round black shadow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Get lost just means 'go away.' Where did you come from, the moon?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The lunar module separated from the command module and landed on the moon’s surface that Saturday afternoon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The full moon turned the waves to silver. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The telescope, for instance, had given scientists the ability to find moons and stars that had never been observed before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She read the pages about the sea urchin, the horseshoe crab, and the moon snail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The finished ones each had a small, silver crescent moon and three mini gold stars. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at my school under the glow of the moon. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was shining, and this time I thought maybe it wasn’t just the moon. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Come,” the king said as he walked out of the pavilion onto the bridge under the moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, I wish to be alone in the garden with the moon. Have a meal brought to me in the Clasping the Moon Pavilion and do not disturb me until morning.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A big golden moon hovered overhead, and the vapor formed a misty circle around it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had the moon and stars been just as brilliant when he was a kid? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Moon blood, it’s only my moon blood, but she did not remember ever having such a heavy flow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled the moon snail out of the bucket. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A Trip to the Moon, Melies’ most famous film, followed a group of explorers as they went to the moon, fought the moon men, and returned home with a captive, to great acclaim. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

With her little lacquer brush, while the phone was ringing, she went over the nail of her little finger, accentuating the line of the moon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He aint crazy nor trying to hit the man in the moon he just wants his family back. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright: I could see him plainly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Whenever there was a full moon, they could be seen gliding down the corridors like two ghosts floating through the pale light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face must split into two smiling moons, because Garret Charles stands, skittering the plastic folding table out from underneath the team, and whispers: “Wipe that smile away, Anthony.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As the sun fell and the moon rose, the dragon showed her how he could make sparks by scratching his claws against a stone, and they built a small campfire. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like she should be married to the man in the moon. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The clouds drifted over the moon again and darkened everything. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I gave Julia back her phone, turned around, and looked at the moon as I pulled my tank top up over my shoulders so she could see it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Can you see?” he said, for although the moon was bright, the symbols around the face were very small. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Above the sun—or was it the moon?—a rainbow arched in the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He said, “Would you be so kind as to spread the moon sand and stardust? We’ll start with the water monster lullaby.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His mother consorts with spirits and daemons, one of whom eventually provides the means to travel to the moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went through the line of brush when the moon was covered, and when it looked through she saw the glimmer of the great pearl in the path behind the rock. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure whips its head in our direction, just as the moon finally peers out from behind the clouds, and for a second before the figure turns and runs, I see a face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then you looked up at Sahil, who was beaming at you like he was filled with a thousand stars or maybe like he was the moon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Down in the valley, the coyotes were howling at the moon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hung low on the western horizon when Nathan and Pond made their way back. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sun finished the last rays of its lingering good-bye, and the moon rose in awful majesty over the silver tree- tops, before he dared to stand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her squeaky-shoes laugh was back and her face shone bright as a full moon on cold, clear nights. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

As we left the moon, we tried to use up all our remaining film by taking pictures of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I saw the Virgin draped in the gown of night standing on the bright, horned moon of autumn, and she was in mourning for the fourth son. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back side of the moon—the side away from earth—would be a great spot for an observatory. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loud hat, square coat, bald head like moon: red, lavender, salmon. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the night he had disappeared, he waited until the full moon had risen before leaving the tavern, and then he took his customary route home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many are printed with a crescent moon on their canvas roofs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had been taken at night under a full moon, and it showed a wooden hut in the middle distance, its walls dark against the snow that surrounded it and lay thickly on the roof. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after they had locked the door, I could see the Negro's face, a molasses-colored moon, risen at the window grating, but I pretended not to notice. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Let the morning sun forget to rise in the east, Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moons are high and I can see two long huts in two separate clearings on hillsides across the way. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were millions of stars surrounding the crescent moon. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In their living room, at the empathy box, Iran swiftly snapped the switch, her face animated with growing gladness; it lit her up like a rising new crescent of moon. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least it wasn’t a full moon, he thought. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Malcolm could only just make out the windows because the gate light was on the other side of the building, and the half moon shone on that side too; but finally he made it out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We got across just as the moon went behind the clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only his eyes searched the darkness, and in the pale light of the moon that crept through the holes in the brush house Kino saw Juana arise silently from beside him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bathed in the cold, white fight of the moon, washed and bathed in it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We say, Never drink with Domishmen when the moon is full. We say a lot of things.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom smiled and yelped, "The moon?" and held the book up so we all could get a better look. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It looked like maps of the craters on the moon. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotlighted lie a three-quarter moon against a vague background of brick and black sky. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Its position relative to the crescent moon would have been just as was depicted. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacing this terrace, Sarai might have walked as far as the moon and back. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Driving a wagon is hard if there's no full moon." Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

A silver moon, almost close enough to touch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moon shone brightly and stars were scattered like luminous snowflakes in the pale cloudless sky. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo was racing against unknown, imaginary competitors from the moment he realized Jupiter had moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see what happens when the full moon arrives. I bet you’ll run through the forest with your tongue hanging out.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked strange and terrible in the moonlight both stark naked, with their silver steel glancing under the harvest moon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a black hole in the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is thought that the American annexation of the moon as the fifty-first state ... Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing that he remembered before he fell into deep dream was a glimpse of high white peaks, glimmering like floating isles above the clouds as they caught the light of the westering moon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was way too dark to see anything out in the thick of trees, even with the moon- and starlight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Again the moon slid from the clouds and the night brightened slightly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The moon ran with him, slipping through a tangle of bare branches overhead, across the starry sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The swallows, drowsy from their long naps as mussels, were singing, and a silver sea of clouds had drifted up to where the mountain met the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lifting my eyes, I see the bright moon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night is so black, so quiet, I can’t see stars or a moon or even a dog in the yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gone was the moon shop, and all of Weep with it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Clouds had come to cover the sliver moon and stars, and even the sails, so white and usually easy to see, were practically invisible. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two full moons now that Tree-ear had been working for Min, but it seemed like a year or even longer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I ask, trying to picture rings around the moon. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On their right a wide and graceful parkland led up to a great house with a classical portico as brilliant as icing sugar under the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To keep from starving, they had already eaten their store during the lean moon. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I darted fast as a lizard behind the stage, to the other side of the moon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is cloudy—there will be no moon tonight. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright, but clouds scudding across it kept throwing them into darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Moon sands? Why, we haven’t had the sun and moon in our world for many ages.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The veil on the other lamp cast a pattern of moons and stars onto the ceiling. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the dim light of the moon, I saw the glazed look in his eyes as they skipped from pas­senger to passenger. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she reached up as if that moon were a ball falling into her empty hands. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is bigger than the sun, bigger than the moon. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She sensed her children’s faces hanging over her dream, like two dark, worried moons, waiting to be let in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lenina, who had lingered for a moment to look at the moon, dropped her eyes and came hurrying across the roof to rejoin him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black windows pierced the flat blank cliffs of white, occasionally flashing a reflection of the moon as the canoe floated by. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I might ” “What about the very first movies? My father saw a movie when he was little that he always remembered. It had a rocket going into the eye of the man in the moon.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The moon was gibbous and filled the room with blue light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness said, “Finding an assistant, such as First Turkey’s Seed Collector, takes two moon cycles. And someone would have to go to Changing Woman herself.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was dark because it was night, but the moon looked as close as the sun did during the day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tops of the trees are barely visible, only a sliver of moon to light their edges. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Three figures crossed the Abbey gardens as the moon broke from behind a drifting cloudbank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The eyes caught twin reflections of the moon; the glittering yellow light penetrated his chest and he inhaled suddenly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know Bao Dai from the man in the moon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That big circle is the moon,” said Chitchat. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Elijah Muhammad teaches his followers that, first, the moon separated from the earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stars and moons and what looked like a rocket ship. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising and its reflection on the water made a long silver-white path that connected seamlessly with the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Autumn came; the trees flamed scarlet and yellow; the harvest moon was gold. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late moon arose before the first rooster crowed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, to their right, the waning moon arose, and when it came up the wind died down, and the land was still. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the moon was full I would talk in my sleep, speaking a strange language no one could understand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hevelius was, however, happy to use telescopes for other purposes, such as mapping the moon, and eventually built a massive 150-footer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You must be open to them—open to everything under the sun and the moon, though these are both obscured to us now...sadly.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The silver moon cast a frosted glow upon the rough stone wall and guardian lion statues. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, the moon was not full every night. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the light of the full moon, I was surprised how well I could see her roll her eyes at me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He did give me the moon, though,” she said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even if I never got to the moon, I was finally an ASTRONAUT! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would realize that yesterday’s triumph had ended when the moon rose, and that today new battle lines would be drawn, and that the fighting never stops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked to the center of the moon sand painting and Pond began to sing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He stared into the face of the man in the moon. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A little white box with a green piece of the moon in it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They watched the stars, and they saw the moon hanging high above them. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“What about no wind on the moon? What about the American flag?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You lost the moon?” the dreamer asked, and peered up at the sky, where the moon was very much present. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I read in the paper that the moon is practicing for the end of the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The moon was always a brilliant white, and once in a while the night wind brought the hooting of owls and the rise and fall of voices from the refugee camp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He claimed that he had started out of the city late so that the rising moon would light his way. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half a moon, they rode through the Forest of Qohor, where the leaves made a golden canopy high above them, and the trunks of the trees were as wide as city gates. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The mesa coyotes were singing, calling to each other or challenging the moon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was dark, and clouds obscured the stars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But here, over the desert and the reeking marshes the deep blue sky of evening opened once more, and a few pallid stars appeared, like small white holes in the canopy above the crescent moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A woman stood there, outlined by the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The star-woman glittered too, as if she had been brushed by the Milky Way, while the unicorn glowed gently in the darkness, like a moon seen through clouds. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of hairy front legs crawled into the light of the moon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One night when the lights were out and I could see a sliver of moon through the window, I heard a slithering noise on the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a small piece of blue paper and on it was printed this message: Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As the moon rose, he called Campion in and talked it over with him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think the moon landing was faked?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know that. But...how do you lose a moon?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They made their way to the outer rim of the dreaming dead city in the light of the racing twin moons. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the girl in gray was a big window and you could see we were in a bubble way high up over the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found the path to the Holy Grove, for the moon was rising and it glowed a ghostly white. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

As they left the moon behind and passed into the great shadow of the walls, he felt a chill, though he’d been cold enough already, and to be sure, the moon gave no warmth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The elil sat staring at him and their eyes glittered in the moon. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angry red half moons mark where she grabbed me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A yellow crescent moon peeked out from behind the clouds, and the mosquitoes weren’t too bad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And when she did, we went through the lobby doors and I looked up at the moon. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So on the night of the next full moon, Ash rose from her bed at midnight, trembling with excitement. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the clouds came over the moon again and the mountains and the lake were gone, but it was much lighter than it had been before and we could see the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Several nights later, the scene was identical except that the moon had waned to a sliver and the siphon was pouring liquid back into the jugs left half full of Velma T.’s elixir. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If it was clear, the stars were out or sometimes the moon was up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of a cow jumping over the moon. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The desert nights were cold, and were becoming darker and darker as the phases of the moon passed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon rose and made a glittering path on the water. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t need them with the moon nearly full, though. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The moon was hoisted to the center of the sky as I ran, a big stage spotlight among the smaller bulbs of stars. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought they were working on getting the moon back in place,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Almost a total disembowelment and when it paused I looked up through the trees arched high and cool above me to see a whirling, double-imaged moon. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ignored me, staring up at the moon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The moon shone, too, on the graveyard attached to the church, filled with tombstones you could hardly read anymore. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Through the hole in Elijah’s earlobe I can see the crescent moon and stars painted on the wall under the clock. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her smile was a brilliant specimen and she wore the moon on her wrist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Because they are white boots, they would glow in the dark like two moons. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then, all of a sudden, they were hovering over the shimmering moon’s reflection, waves thundering around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“The moon wanes to her dark,” Vetch murmured, awake in the dawn, when for a while the cold wind dropped. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The young girl looked at me, her eyes colder and brighter than the winter moon. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And Sathaz and the moon are living happily together in a cave somewhere.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dain’s being named as the High King will kick off a month of revelry, while the moon wanes and then swells anew. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A woman, scarcely more than a shadow, was dancing on the moon's nose—and suddenly the moon smiled. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Splash some blood upon the moon with me, and I promise you a kiss for every kill.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The upper edge of the moon had just begun to emerge over the lip of the horizon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bridge had assumed that the moon was always the same distance from Earth. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Last, I raised my eyes to the moon, which smiled down on us from a long, cold distance away. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would have thought the moon would be at the bottom of the sea?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

One moment the moon was not there, and then it was, then one bright star. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I made multiple trips to her avatar’s stronghold, an armored palace on Benatar, the small moon she owned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In February on the night of the full moon we could hear the sound of drums in the distance. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter moon lay low in the west, not giving enough light to tempt anyone to stay up late. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon shines on the bulkiest lump. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She’d been meaning to perform it for several moons now, but somehow there just never seemed to be time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A full moon is out tonight, and this moment feels just as full—almost pregnant. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even as Penelope looked, a cloud passed over the moon and the light was snuffed out. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

"Is good name, Dan Ares wife, moon of my life," he said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were crescents and quarters, gibbous and full, and they weren’t charms, they were moons—real miniature moons, cratered and luminous, as though lit by the rays of some distant star. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There’s no breeze, my white curtains are like gauze bandages, hanging limp, glimmering in the aura cast by the searchlight that illuminates this house at night, or is there a moon? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s for light. The light of the stars, and the moon penetrating the night.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling it, Tab! So they trick her. They put a mirror up in a tree and pretend it’s the moon. She sees it shining through the branches. So she eats.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought about his father’s favorite movie and wondered briefly if the man in the moon had to wear an eye patch after the rocket flew into his eye. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But the earth, the sun, and the moon keep on their course, utterly oblivious. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And when family woman look him in the eye in the full of the moon, chile born bluegum. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A weak, watery moon filtered through the clouds and revealed a young man sitting on the topmost of thirteen stone steps that led into the water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the trail, the moon rose round and pale through the leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The waxing moon sank into the cloudy West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“If we stand up here at one o’clock in the morning on the night of the full moon, we may be able to find the sword of Martin the Warrior,” he said, rather sternly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"We can make a better pace than this, surely," Royce said when the moon was full risen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of a crescent moon curve they're a half-moon, the blades weighted and sharpened on both sides to easily cut in either direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Every time I see the full moon, I’ll think of her and wonder where she is. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Which is why it is all the more remarkable to reflect that until 1978 no one had ever noticed that Pluto has a moon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a white full moon, and low purple clouds lay over the horizon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps many stars have planetary systems rather like our own: at the periphery, great gaseous ringed planets and icy moons, and nearer to the center, small, warm, blue-white, cloud-covered worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was low now and the light, wherever it slanted through the trees, seemed thicker, older and more yellow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, she said, no one grumbles when the moon shines. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike the young women in the novels of Jane Austen, Emma Wedgwood was not mooning over Charles or plotting for a marriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owl was the protective spirit of Ultima, the spirit of the night and the moon, the spirit of the llano! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the curtainless window he could see the lopsided moon with hundreds of stars dancing in bright attendance. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Moonlight misted over the rough floors and made the sparse room glow silver, the goldfish bowl looking like a second moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Trees hide the moon, and Enrique does not see two men who are behind the stranger, or three more creeping up the other side of the car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Until that summer, I had kept count of all the moons since the time my brother and I were alone upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Ron Evans, an astronaut who would later fly to the moon on the final Apollo flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face, lit by the moon, is slack with shock. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I reckon people gone be flying to the moon pretty soon,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“By order of the Department of the Dead, working in conjunction with the foremost representatives of Afterlife, I declare before the full moon that this month’s All-Souls Festival is now in session!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was a third plane taking off with them, taking advantage of the moon, but not technically operational—a new squadron member doing his first cross-country training flight to France. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the pale crescent moon, floating high above the grass, and it came to her that this was no more than her moon blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only on a night with an exceptional moon can the river rightfully claim its light or any other subtlety. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one to see but Boatwright and a score of shadows, but then the moon went in again and the shadows dissolved in a deeper darkness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The moon was almost blinding, so bright the stars were barely visible. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cuticles grew up over the half moons. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Eddie mooned on down to La Ida and talked to his friend the bartender. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

How about if you lose I cut one lock and if you win I will moon that nerdy group ofsixth-graders that sit near our table at lunch? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

So, wondering whether any lovers before them had made this blissful discovery, they lay together as the earth turned slowly and the moon and stars blazed above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The full moon shone on miles and miles of glistening blue sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was almost down now but before it went down the sky clouded over again and it was very dark. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I see the patterns the grease leaves on the metal, I see the moons of my nails, the raggedy flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was late and the moon was playing hide-and-go-seek with some puffy dark clouds, making the woods and the shadows slide twixt different shades of gray. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It may be a moon’s turn before we have another chance as good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Wolves often howl at the moon. These are howling at the comet. See how bright it is, Bran? Perchance they think it is. the moon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Light faded and the moon rose, and the woman and her dæmon fell asleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mate mooned over one in red patent leather with a snap in the shape of a heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neil, first down the ladder and therefore the first human to step on another planet, found he had no difficulty at all in walking on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on a grave in the middle of the cypresses and looked up at the moon. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our SOS flashes were lost either in the sun or moon glint apparently. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Only one question and only in the light of the full moon. Infernal thing!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now, at this instant, he’d glance up at the sky, hoping for a moon or a few stars. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the people purge their homes at the start of the new moon. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pale and colorless in the moon’s thin light. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They wandered along the river until they came to the wide beach, bright under the moon, where the low tide was turning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I hate the cold and the volcanoes and the moon. I hate everything.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The night around them was almost impossible to see in, the crescent moon covered with a blanket of gray clouds. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He said that if you went to the moon you would have to figure out things using math and if you went to the corner store you would have to do math, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Moonlight pours down upon train and riders alike, a great spill of moon. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of her cry flying through the night sky and making the moon turn her face away, making the owls tremble in their flight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sated and tired, the girls stretched out in the soft grass and watched the pale rind of moon grow more pronounced. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You know, the Mountain Spirit is also called the Old Man of the Moon. So you see him every time you look at the moon.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He executed a vast swirling bow, nearly falling from the horse, arose grinning, mouth a half moon of cheery teeth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, for once, he had arrived before the moon was already high above the roofs of the city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the week before the moon arrived, the Japanese came. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was that of the clouds, driven across the moon in one direction, and the other was that of the stream of Dust, seeming to cross it in quite another. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At night it felt as if we were walking with the moon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The moon had set and the night was very dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We can send notes, telephone, whisper cryptic invitations, announce the giving of parties, even bounce words off the moon and make them carom around the planets. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was filled with stars and the moon was full and lighted the tops of the trees ahead of me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The watcher gazed full at the moon, and then he lighted another cigarette, and the match illumined his dark face for a moment. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, what’re you doing today, anyhow? All dressed up and mooning around like the prologue to a suttee. Did you go to Psychology this morning?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to fill the bottom of an aquarium with, like, two inches of flour for the moon’s inner crust.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The Capitol seal is back with a final bit of music and then the sky goes dark except for the moon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until the Voyager expeditions, Neptune was thought to have two moons; Voyager found six more. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Our first conversation began with her grabbing my hand to examine my newly painted nails, gold with silver moons. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jonas had set Matthew on his shoulders and the couple became silhouettes against the sky as the moon rose and Claire watched. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And thanks to my poor eating habits, his hideous face would eventually resemble the craters of the moon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon over the big red barn illuminates the open field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

July 20: The sea is like unrolled velvet under the half moon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He woke that night with the dull carbon light of the crossing moon beyond the murk making the shapes of the trees almost visible and he turned away coughing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In places, their branches met above our heads and interlaced, nearly blocking out the light of the half moon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ben drank the Coke and he remembered it glowing in his blood like the moon and, very deliberately, Ben looked into the softest of male eyes and said, “That’s good Coke, Dave.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s only about twelve miles and there’s a full moon tonight. I’m on my way.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brilliant moon hung high in the sky, a moon that could light my dog’s way home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Life could also be pleasant on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the color television screen, the moon wasn’t yellow or silver. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I thought of Giles, and his large moon face, his horn spectacles. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped our barbecue motion and got our first look at the moon in nearly a day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, having no more territory to explore, they invented ways to leave their homeland, first on wings and later on rockets, until finally, in July 1969, they touched the face of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As silently as owls they flew, with the moon on their wings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had his father’s round moon face, his pointy stub of a chin, his twisted, seashell ears, and the same slight frame. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then several scales, glittering from the moon sands below, fell off his green body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Out in the yard, night was settling over the Dreadfort and a full moon was rising over the castle’s eastern walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On their way back from the moon, Jim Lovell said he thought the earth looked like a “grand oasis in the great vastness of space. ” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stars twinkled above, but with no moon, I could barely see where I was going. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tristran slept on the leather seat of the coach, his head on a sack of oats; he dreamed of ghosts, and of the moon and stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was asleep on a cot in the first room and the old man could see him clearly with the light that came in from the dying moon. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Galileo first peered at the moon through his telescope, nearly four hundred years ago, we had been gathering facts about its pock-marked surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick fogbank had rolled in at dusk, and now, between the intense dark and the fog, it was impossible to see much of anything except for the volcano outlined by the moon. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Its account of a voyage to the moon marks the beginning of science fiction in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As we left the moon, we curved around its right side, and we could see it gleaming in the sunlight, vividly etched against the black sky in gray- tan tones. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretched out on one of the seat planks, staring up at the moon and wondering how long it would take for somebody to spot us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had never before seen the Meadows by moon light. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She’d tried to summon a cloud to hide the full moon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The moon was full and bright enough that I found the mangled coyote between clumps of wild blooming buckwheat, where some other creature had likely dragged it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A near full moon shone above the trees and chill penetrated as though brilliance strengthened it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was there to provide light and heat by day, the moon and stars light by night. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He hoped the moon would send them another unicorn, and knew that she would not. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was America’s first attempt to reach the moon, and we were excited about it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was high, and by keeping well in the shadow of a tree they were able to cross the road without being seen. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And when the clouds finally shredded themselves and the silvered moon looked down upon Phippsburg again, it looked down upon a town strangely changed, its sheds turned into hills, its woodpiles into igloos. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When the solar system is all explored, we will probably have evidence for impact catastrophism on all nine worlds, from Mercury to Pluto, and on all the smaller moons, comets and asteroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looked up at the three-quarter moon that was rising to the east of the city. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ribbons of birds were flying across the yellow face of the moon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But in the hereness of dusk I am moving toward the doomlike bells through the flowered air, beneath the rising moon. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corners of her smile, turned up in delight, were as neat as the tips of a crescent moon, and her brows were bright against the blue of her skin, as cinnamon as her hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Imperial canals circle the square, holding jeweled boats bright as gemstones and shaped like smiling moons on midnight-blue water. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In a few days, it will be time for the Moon Festival, the Scholars’ midsummer celebration of the largest moon of the year. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The moon grew fat and thin, there were solstices, first frosts, and spring rains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As I went to sleep in the orphans’ home, the moon was going, morning was coming, and day was darker than night. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The moon, white like milk, showed in the blue sky and the air was cold. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her shin was pressed against my shoulder, and when I looked up, all I could see was the underside of her chin—her face was pitched to the moon. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I watch, stunned, as half a dozen flat cars whoosh by, loaded with what look like wagons, although I can’t quite make them out because the moon has gone behind a cloud. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright, and the flickering streetlights cast a glow on the city. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was dark, and the moon hung in the sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, the solar system was thought to contain thirty moons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was not the light of a candle, but rather the smooth, white light of the outdoors—of the moon. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was as clear as day—the moon was so bright—and cold and kind of windy; a lot of tumbleweed blowing about. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn’s own face was painted black and white—a crescent moon on one side, the other side dark as midnight. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that time it was well after dark and the moon was rising, yellow in hazy air, huge in the trees, gazing like one single vacant eye, and Vincent rode up. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the moon’s besotted gaze, she ran deep into the jungle, her body strong, her every sense heightened. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Composed in 1782, the sonata evokes the moon over calm, peaceful waters after the passing of a storm. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“To the moon and back,” I told her. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The moon would be a great place to observe the stars because there is no atmosphere to get in the way and block the view. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so, so cold. Is the moon up?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It catches the light of both moons and my God it’s a powerful thing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We looked at the moon and described the shapes we saw to each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I want to see the sky and the moon on the last night that no one will be hunting me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had a time getting Vonetta and Fern to stay inside to watch the landing, let alone wait for the two astronauts to climb out and walk on the moon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The moon was growing pale and there was a faint light in the east, but a strong wind began to blow. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a smell like a cut potato from all the land, raw and cold and white from having the moon on it most of the night. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was head and shoulders smarter than the run of the mill, and after he’d watched the sun and moon and stars fer a long time he set down and he done some figgerin’. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pale moon that allowed me to make out in the distance the outlines of a wretched slum, with houses made of cardboard, planks, and corrugated metal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside light from the moons and dwarf sun in the purple sky fills the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s just me up here with the fading fathead moon and every screaming seagull from far and wide visiting Lost Cove for a dawn concert. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was already dark, but when I looked up at the sky, I saw a big old moon like God’s own halo hung up there as a mark of his covenant. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A-glitter everywhere, as though with fiery points of sunlight, lusters of the moon. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or: “Notice how the skyscraper here looks like it’s about to pierce the moon. That’s a thoughtful choice of perspective.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A full moon hovered low in the sky, breaking through reefs of bomb smoke now and then to shine like the lighthouse’s ghostly double. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“A lullaby. And three water monster songs. We think that we should spend half of a moon phase with each song.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We were skimming along approximately sixty miles above the moon’s pockmarked surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fezzes, the prayer rugs, the crescent moons: it was a little like going home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sun warmed us with its life-giving power, and up in the sky a white moon smiled on us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light in our room came from the gray squares cut by the moon on the floor through our windowpanes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I keep my eye on her and she keeps flying around the moon and I keep laughing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Eleven days later, the moon was at three-quarters waxing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A large, full fairy-tale moon hung in the sky now—though Hazel could have sworn it wasn’t there earlier—showing a cottage that looked like something from a movie. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Help! Help! Call the police!” shouted Eye, but the houses were as silent as craters on the moon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined spiderwebs in my bones and turned my palm towards the moon, watching the ballet of bones between my elbow and wrist twist to make it so. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The small, dark pillbox atop his head was gold-embroidered with Islam’s flag, the sun, moon, and stars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That week, you would have thought that Lil was blasting off to the moon, she was that nervous. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the same size as the one that held my piece of the moon, and I feel a pang of regret over throwing it out the window. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And while part of him felt like falling to his knees and hurling up breakfast, another part of him wanted to howl to the moon like a wolf. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But on the way to the moon there is no place to hide, and the sunlight is continuous, twenty-four hours a day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was about a million people it seemed, and lights, and the beat was rocking the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was on the rise and shed some light for me to look around by, but also made strange shadows on the tombstones. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

With her family in some beautiful place beyond the moon. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wild wind must have been bringing clouds overhead, because suddenly the moon was covered, and darkness swept over the whole landscape—thick clouds, too, for no gleam of moonlight shone through them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was already up, visible through the gauzy clouds, and his face glowed pale in the white light. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now the great ships turned as lightly as moon thistles. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The notes say a Nightbeast emerges exactly six months from the beginning of its hibernation period, and it prefers to do so on the waning moon,” said Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

For example, as it approaches the earth, a spacecraft returning from the moon must be within a very narrow zone about forty miles high. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was high up and took the clouds across the moon. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the full moon, in the Antelope Kiva, secrets would be told, secrets would be done and borne. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge moon lies partially above the horizon, while another moon half its size hovers just behind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Moss hung off the tall pines around us, and the full moon shone through the moss. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I doubt that she knows. She is one, perhaps two moons along." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cora suggested they wait for the full moon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond are the dining room, two bedrooms, the kitchen—all situated in the middle of the building so the apartment’s windows have no access to the moon or the light of a street lamp. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last I rose to go, a full moon was shining, golden and enormous, very low in the sky. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bright moon revealed a field of empty tables and stalls, deserted by its trader swarms. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke a dog was licking vomit from his beard, and dark clouds were scuttling across the face of a sickle moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No moon gates or fan windows or stone lions. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The eunuchs who served them threw bundles of dried grasses into a great bronze brazier, and clouds of fragrant smoke rose up toward the moon and the stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A scar hooks under his right eye like a crescent moon, and I wonder why he hasn't allowed a Belle to erase it for him. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was pale and pink, sharp as a new moon sliver. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her face was moon full and jelly soft, the cheeks and jaw framed by white whiskers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A feather plucked from a moon bird will glow brightly, but only for a moment. If you wait until the feather is shed naturally, it will forever bring you light.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like when we were getting to know each other, back on the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s death was a complication of her escape, like the absence of a full moon or losing the head start because Lovey had been discovered out of her cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I bet it has something to do with the moon,” Briana said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The bright moon is already on the rise, filling the arena with that strange twilight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once the moon comes out, it’s like he ain’t got time for me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I floated up the white light that washed my sheets and slept on the moon. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They stared up at the greenish-blue moon, and scuffled for the best places by the fire, insulting each other, sometimes clawing or biting. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Even Big Ma wanted to witness the astronauts walking on the moon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The pale outline of the moon sits above me like something forgotten. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when there’s been no moon or the sky has been cloudy, I have fished at the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The full moon was now at its highest and the snow caught and magnified every morsel of its eerie blue glow. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I’d never noticed it before, but the silhouette of a woman was outlined in the brightness of that moon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Very few scientists thought this could happen, but no one wanted to take a chance on infecting planet earth with moon germs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once they put on winter coats and visit the moon. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When 1 turned my head, I saw four shadows, with the moon in back of them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like all those meteoroids that hit the moon! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The full moon hung low, a fresh coin that threw its silver grandly on the water in a ribbon that dazzled for a thousand miles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman reaches for a glass of water and her silhouette is lighted by the moon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lourdes suddenly remembers how her daughter had ridiculed Armstrong’s first words on the moon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see it coming, the whole thing: the moon and the trail of smoke leading into the sky, the bullet speeding toward her, the light streaming out behind it like waves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, on his sixth try, the loop neatly encircled the shining moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Despite the rising sun, stars sparkled in the sky next to a crescent moon. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now he thought in moons or even seasons. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Under the moon, on the ground, alone, with not even the sound of baying dogs to remind him that he was with other people, his self—the cocoon that was “personality”—gave way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is out, but it is 90 degrees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen France sleep, the Eiffel Tower shining brightly in the distance, lights quietly shutting off in third-floor apartments, the moon drifting lazily into view. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Kepler was not alone in imagining a moon with features like the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stared up at the moon for a little bit, at all the stars in the sky. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I recognize her now from the High King’s full moon revel. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But at the mere mention of the moon, the children had gone pale. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When night fell, we proceeded up the river, there being a reasonable moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The core of the moon snail’s spiral was blue while most of the shell was orange. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At first I thought the clouds had blown over, and the moon was peering in from the horizon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stared up at the full moon's blemished face. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t have let her do the moons. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early on the morning of July 20, 1969, I was circling the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in our spacecraft Columbia. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before we hit, we passed into shadows as cold as the dark side of the moon. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of black shapes that slid from place to place, avoiding the light, until they were all gathered together under the moon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Fd turned to the back section, turned past the Z words, past the phases of the moon and the metric system, and finally to the Given Names. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had set and the moon was just beginning to rise in the sky when Ma and Ba returned home from the fields. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gently Ned covered the boy with his cloak, a bloodstained bit of blue bordered in crescent moons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then after our quiet day in the country, we carried everything back across the road, under a silver-dollar moon. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon appeared from behind a bank of cloud. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shining brightly as the moon above...it was coming back to him.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“So I went looking for you on top of things. But the moon’s coming out, so I came back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The most popular theory is that, about four billion years ago, a huge object collided with the earth, and the moon was formed from the resulting debris. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody talked much as the expedition crossed the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her night vision ruined, she could hardly see anything except the moon in the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My lips are a half moon, but my whole body is smiling too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter was not like checkmate, or winning a race: he did not plan for it or see it coming. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And when I finally got to Lwów, the moon was up and the camp was shut down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Above the marshes, a pale quarter moon waited in a light blue sky, with mares’ tails clouds brushing against it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two-man Gemini spacecraft was being designed to find out as much as we could in earth orbit before trying to take an Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soft light from the moon and stars came through the sheer curtains into our room, making patterns on my bedspread that I traced with my finger. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

White dust coated his face, and he looked like the surface of the moon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The breeze still cool, we bounce across the bridge shaped like a crescent moon where I’m not to go by myself. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The moon began to fade as the brightening sky revealed itself through it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was that when and if we finally reached the moon we would have a much better idea of what to look for, and what kinds of rocks would be best to bring back. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man was standing before them, his wide, pale eyes shining like moons through the gloom of the shop. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Will they let you be a moon goddess again?” the dreamer inquired. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They have gas pumps outside, human-sized, with round discs on top, lit up like pale moons or haloes minus the head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once my feet are free, I get up and throw my body into a run, into a sprint, my feet quick on the stone, the red moon in front of me, the ocean gone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was just enough moon in the sky to light up her curly blond hair and cast a reflection in her glasses. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waning, still-bright moon had risen high in the night sky by the time they ate. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A full moon was squeezed between two of the project’s apartment buildings. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s supposed to be Apollo 11. The moon landing, remember? One giant step for humankind?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, Grandma, I thought, that is the same moon and the same stars that will be over your grape arbor and your henhouse tomorrow. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun set, and the woods grew darker, but before the last of the twilight was gone the moon rose. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Finn talked to squirrels and mooned out the window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The moon hung low over the city, just below his nipple, and was stained with a strange splotch. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A loud splashing echoed in the air, and a giant beast burst from the lake as if ripping through a paper moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he was entirely mistaken about Saturn, Mercury and Venus, and Jupiter has many more moons than Galileo discovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the same salt waters of the oceans are drawn by the sun to the heavens, and in turn become again the waters of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are they still baying at the moon? I hear reports from the kitchen that those pupils of yours are consuming an alarming amount of ketchup. Perhaps you can explain.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The moon moved from one window to the other, and as dawn came, the thing scurried off, climbing quickly down the foot of the bed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising above the last mesa he had crossed from the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking about the curved backdrop with the evil moon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They said that when they were children growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, their father told them all about exploring the moon, thirty years before it actually happened. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also knew he’d buy us candy or take us down to the record shop so we could moon over the Jackson Five album. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The darkest stretch was Thunder Beach, peaceful and deserted under a yellow moon. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Spectacular white cheeses lay lined like thirty perfect moons on a dark cloth, drying in the sun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the soft light of the full moon, he cracked open the dog-eared book to one of his favorite parts. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

At night, when there was a moon, I would drive our VW camper to a hyena den where there were one or two tiny black cubs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She herself shot upwards through the sky, with the stars spinning around her like great golden plates, and presently, in blinding light, she felt the cold rays of the moon upon her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The moon was now three nights from the full, but it did not climb over the mountains until nearly midnight, and the early night was very dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The hard, blue sky had blanched and in the east there was a white moon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if we can go somewhere else; the disasters on the moon and Mars colonies proved that. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, she was no moon goddess,” she said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A crescent moon was etched into the sky above. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The pace of progress has continued to be brisk: manned orbital flight; humans orbiting, then landing on the moon; and unmanned spacecraft outward bound throughout the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knight's moon face looked crestfallen, the tips of his great walrus mustache twitching with disappointment. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had given her the moon on her wrist, the stars that bedecked it, the sun in its jar on the shelf with the fireflies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was an old model Ford, long and wide, a dark color I couldn’t discern in the moon­light. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was still large and the clouds thin as they raced away after the storm, so there was some light from the sky; but under the yew trees it was horribly dark. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine turned a few more pages, this time landing on a group portrait of women and children gathered humorlessly around a paper moon. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In some worlds there will be many suns in the daytime sky, many moons in the heavens at night, or great particle ring systems soaring from horizon to horizon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sun hangs low in the horizon, refusing to give way to the entrance of the moon coming from a world away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some moons will be so close that their planet will loom high in the heavens, covering half the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the moon three days later, they chattered like excited tourists. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crescent moon roll dotted with seeds from District 11. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered if there was a moon out, and if so, what it looked like. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They planted their crops and cared for their animals according to the cycles of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just see the edges of Hamlet’s hair, lit by the moon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The sun or moon shone, he was again Self, swung into the life cycle, felt thirst, conquered thirst, felt new thirst. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spacecraft sat on the moon for hours and Vonetta and Fern wanted to go outside and run around with the chickens before the sun went down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Vonetta went on and on about all the money we were saving and how she made sure Fern and I didn’t waste our money buying candy, airmail stamps, and mooning over boys in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the past when he walked out like that and sat looking over the country lying in just the faintest visible shape where the lost moon tracked the caustic waste he’d sometimes see a light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as we got home, I said to Ma Charles, just to see her reaction, “We asked Miss Trotter to come and watch the astronauts take off for the moon.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Our only lights are the moons but they’re bright enough to cast our shadows running along the road which is too bright when yer running away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Turning his head to see where the moon was. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was all around him now, and high overhead a wild white moon was riding in the sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lies! my father shouted, Antonio was not baptized in the holy water of the moon, but in the salt water of the sea! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the moon was talking to him: Please, whispered the moon, in a voice that reminded him a little of his mother's, protect her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As another hour passed and the Brahmin could not sleep, he rose again, walked up and down, left the house and saw the moon had risen. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The on-again-and-off-again clouds got to be always on and they ended up blacking out the moon two nights later. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When he surfaced, one of his eyes was closed and the other filled with the delicate silver of a moon small as a nail clipping. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the soft light of the moon, he began to paint on a broken wall with broad strokes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One only needed to look at the earth’s relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like all of a sudden, she thinks I’m going to the moon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A narrow weirwood door stood between two slender marble pillars, a crescent moon carved in the white wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the moon is full, which it is tonight, it is directly opposite the sun, so the shadow it casts will give me the correct time. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was running, I’d pick me a early summer night with a lot of moon. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sublunary world, the world this side of the moon, is the world of generation and corruption—the rest of the universe has existed unchanging from all eternity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was early night, but the slim moon was already falling westward. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Billions of kilometers of space, and more suns and moons than I can count, separate me from home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was brilliant red, the color of a lucky lantern, with emerald-green whiskers, horns, and a dull stone-colored ball like the moon on his head. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Haiyi looked down, slightly dizzy, and saw an old man sitting in the light of the moon, a large book in his lap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a monkey’s hop across a strait, was the dark side of the moon, imagine what Canada was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In technical terms, the albedo of the moon is .07, which means that it bounces back only 7 percent of the light striking it, absorbing the other 93 percent. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stared around it, taking in the faces of the dead, and the mist, and the moon. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When sunset was down to a faintly glowing ember in the west and the moon rose in the east, I went forth on my bicycle. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The early morning sky was deep, silky blue and the moon had turned from silver to white. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had become near and familiar, and that’s why my answer just sort of popped out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the day thinking sullen thoughts, trying to ignore the sound of his voice and occasionally remembering the way Denna had looked last night with the moon reflecting off the water behind her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He raised his head and straightened, letting the moon bathe him with silver light. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Benerro jabbed a finger at the moon, made a fist, spread his hands wide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She said, “Do you know how much it costs to fly someone to the moon?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of using the moon to keep track of the passage of time, the Egyptians used the sun, just as most nations do today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The astronauts could have shaken hands with moon men on live television. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On earth I weigh 165 pounds, but on the moon I would weigh only 27 pounds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all happens as usual, except tonight the radio I’ve brought sweats next to me as the moon rises, falls, and fades when morning finally approaches. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The creature was supposed to be a cow and the circle was supposed to be the moon. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like the moon,” said Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I could use an aluminum pan. That’d be cheaper. I could make more moons....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

On earth, astronomers are hindered by electric lights and radio signals that pollute the night sky, but on the back side of the moon astronomers could view the universe without interference. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were vast, airy marshes, some of them thirty miles wide, as splendid as fields of ripened wheat, yet as desolate in some ways as the dark side of the moon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of a paper moon hovering over paper cities and paper forests and paper people. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But within minutes, he was out in the open, stumbling across upland fields and pastures that were sporadically lit by a half moon showing through clouds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I learned that the phases of the moon ruled not only the planting but almost every part of their lives. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He chugged two cans at once, lifted his head like a wolf baying at the moon and let loose with a burp so loud it must have deafened house pets three houses over. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the golden moon, and growing larger every moment, was a large, strangely lopsided creature, and it was flapping in Harry’s direction. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"And I'll see you back here tonight, Dunstan Thorn, when the moon goes down. Come here and hoot like a little owl. Can you do that?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the precious stone had begun to glow a soft, serene radiance just like the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jupiter and its moons are a kind of miniature solar system and exquisite worlds with much to teach us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a full moon and a cloudless sky. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A dim new moon shone among stars that sparkled like shards of light on the ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Käthe’s gone back to Alsace and I’m waiting for the moon again—everything in place and we’ve had confirmation of a bomber flypast planned for Sat. night—whether or not Op. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Above me, the sky is blank and dark, the moon shielded by clouds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And when, six weeks after he leaves, I write to tell him that I’m pregnant, Dutchy says that he is over the moon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the river, the Nightbeast stalked into the light of the moon. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The moon was about halfway down from overhead in the same direction as the splashing animal. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the age of five every normal child has drawn a moon pie-face. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her resentment seemed to darken with the fading moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She’d already been hinting that during the next eclipse we slam pot lids together to scare the frog from swallowing the moon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I prayed, I thought about Mamá sitting outside looking up at that full moon, wondering where we were. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Oh, I get it—it’s rare, like once in a blue moon. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I ain’t sure what the standard protocol is, if there is one, but I might as well ask for the sun, moon, and stars while I’m at it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From our spot in a clearing between some dried Lydia brooms and spiny mesquite brush, we watched the moon as it rose higher into the sky above the canyon rim. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And higher yet is the upper world, the future, home of the sky spirits, the rainbow, lightning, stars, sun, moon, and condor.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She would stare at the moon, and at me, and sometimes, at the little green house next door, where a boy who looks to be about her age lives. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The shadow-boy walks out through the open door and stands beneath the hanging moon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She saw the simulated spacecraft and sleepily sang, “The itsy-bitsy spider dropped on the yellow moon.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The moon, suddenly large and impressive, dusted the shoal of trees covering the hillside below with a serene fire. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There's a full, white moon, so pale it looks like I can see through it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was night, and the citadel was in the sky this time, but the moon shone down regardless, as though the dreamer wanted it both ways. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were no street lights in this part of town; only the moon directed the way of a pedestrian. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he had the realization, a cloud slid beyond the moon and pale light illuminated the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The moon did not rise now until late and he had no way of judging the time. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at the shining silvery coin of a moon rolling around in the sky and think I might be seeing the miracles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My head, it has flown off to the moon. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now the purple spread from horizon to horizon, and the stars that had clustered in the east were fading with the early light of the rising moon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hours later, under a sliver of moon, Petra was almost asleep. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He observed that the times at which the moons of Jupiter appeared to pass behind Jupiter were not evenly spaced, as one would expect if the moons went round Jupiter at a constant rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above it the stars were thick in the dim sky, but there was no moon. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The moon shone brilliantly on the sodden grass, the mossy gravestones, the crumbling mausoleum, the figures in their hideous embrace between the columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets, and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jupiter’s moons made this arrangement rather less implausible than it had seemed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The fat moon lit the water like a lantern over a looking glass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was coming up and the ocean looked like the desert, wave after wave of shifting silvery dunes. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, the Sea King was leaning motionlessly over the bridge, the glow of the moon on his still-concerned face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The moon was due to pass over a star that was bright enough to see in spite of its nearness to the moon. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape glowed under the moon: wide, bare hills with occasional little gullies, where streams trickled down among the trees that clustered there. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d just sit there on the balcony at night while everyone slept and cry and watch the moon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a huge moon roof, heated and massaging seats, and plenty of room for Freebie, and it cost a mere $350 per day, plus insurance. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, our friends in Houston were kidding, because the moon doesn’t have any cinnamon trees or even any air for people or rabbits to breathe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud bank drifted slowly by above them, and for the first time that night, the nearly full moon made a timid appearance. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“All on your lonesome?” he says, like I bragged on going to the moon and back and he didn’t quite believe me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Without a moon, they see only what the insectile headlamps illuminate: fifteen feet of granular, ice-blue surface, crisscrossed by tire tracks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The moon shone brightly that night, and Amari decided it was lighting a path to her future. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, his moon book went through at least nineteen editions in French and two in English before the end of the century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon both of them would be his, the greater light and the lesser, and Freya the lady, who was more beautiful than either the sun or the moon. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When Raul entered, he said nothing at all about being mooned. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not a remarkable moon, waning, hazy in the cloudy night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Louver says that sometimes, even now, he catches a shadowy glimpse of that figure going hither and yon, especially during a full moon.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I just need him to notice one time my forehead isn’t as big as the moon. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The moon is having an eclipse abroad this minute. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Kino lifted the flesh, and there it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane began its descent over Boston Harbor, the pilot announced the weather and time, and that President Nixon had declared a national holiday: two American men had landed on the moon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The moon is not nearly as large as the earth, and therefore its gravity is not as strong. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon grew brighter and multiplied the shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

‘This journey is over, maybe,’ said Théoden, ‘but I have far yet to go. Last night the moon was full, and in the morning I shall ride to Edoras to the gathering of the Mark.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Later, when the moon had climbed high over the courtyard wall, Gebu came home again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There are twelve elements named after people, and plenty of stars, comets and asteroids—but no planets or planetary moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Second was watching him, the moon of her face rising in front of him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We also wanted an emblem which didn’t show the spacecraft themselves but which somehow said our country was making a peaceful landing on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widened, and the little moons got brighter. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They took a winding lane up toward the Forester farm, and the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shallow moons had been worn into the risers; the bannister, he saw, had lost its luster. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe you can pull the stone out of the pool and put the moon back together. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Each time I met him, he embraced me with a splendid smile that made his right eye fade into the shape of a crescent moon. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And the moon in its time shone like a lesser sun for clearness. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, he would not have even known it was a lake at all if it wasn't for the giant moon reflected in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He brought me stacks of moon cakes, round and yellow like the full moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It came upon her one night when the stars themselves looked like dandelions in the sky and the moon a great daisy among the stars. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was just standing there, he said, watching the moon, and then off to the west a column of silhouettes appeared as if by magic at the margin of the jungle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Planting season would begin again in two moons’ time, and the people now turned their prayers to the next year’s harvest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The earth’s albedo is four times that of the moon, which means it shines four times as brightly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was low in the sky, but it would not set for several hours, and the disk of the moon was pale, but it was there, high in the heavens, as well. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I went back to the cave and did not leave it until the moon was full. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it dearly as it passed between the moon and me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stood still and recited, with real feeling: “Moon, moon, moon. Night, no moon?Dark. Night, yes moon?Light! Yes, moon! Ahwooooo!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

April 3, 1966: The Luna 10 space probe becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

For me, it seemed as real as saying, “I want to fly to the moon.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stars in this world were the same as theirs: the Milky Way blazed bright across the dome of the sky, and innumerable points of starlight dusted the dark, almost matching the moon for brightness…. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

August said, “You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon rose as the sun set. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a poem written by the Drunken Genius, Lee the White, who drowned one night when he tried to embrace the moon as it appeared on the lake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young king gaped in shock, and the father was only able to see why when the reflection of the moon returned to the lake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I was hoping to meet someone on the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was four, Mama was the moon and the stars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stella loves the moon, with its untroubled smile. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Natalie is tearing up the moons she’s made one by one, her chin jerking wildly down to her collarbone and up. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is high tonight and casts a pale silver over the landscape, painting it in shadows and light. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Prosper carefully climbed into the boat, sat down on the cold wooden bench, and looked up at the moon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Dresden after it was fire- bombed—like the surface of the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They knew they would’ve been no match for Knox Kosmos,” the Gran said, throwing her head back and cackling in the light of the moon. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The little Guadalupes swung on their crescent moons back and forth, back and forth, like girls on playground swings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There was movement above me and I saw, like in a grainy movie, a humanoid figure silhouetted by the moon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a long, flowing blue gown, and she stood on the homed moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yvaine remained as pale as the moon, and she did not lose her limp, no matter how many leagues they covered. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moon rose, casting a silver stripe over the ocean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Luna’s favorite books were the ones about astronomy—the moon, especially. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The waxing moon was climbing slowly above the hill that overshadowed them, and the stars above the hill-top faded. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Its side had been laid wide open, and in the white-hot light from the moon, I could see bones and the fetid yellow coils of rotting innards. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds he looked up at the moon as if trying to admire it one last time. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The moon was still high in the sky. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not just my imagination—looking at the sky, the clouds, the moon and the stars really does make me feel calm and hopeful. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The moon was now high enough to peep down into the valley. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was about six feet long and curved like a crescent moon. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moon drifted in and out of the clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If done properly, it would barely miss the moon as it passed a mere eighty miles in front of it, at a distance of 230,000 miles from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll find them easily in this moon. It’s like daylight outside. I’ve never seen a moon so full. And where in blazes is Ashton? He’s missing all the fun.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She made her eyes into big, round moons. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a shadow, like the shape of great wings, passed across the moon. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had spent the night before watching a tiny moon. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over my shoulder the moon rose from the east and lighted my way. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was overhead by now, and as she walked she watched it slowly descend toward the west. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It's got nothing to do with the moon!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Connor was talking nonstop, telling me all about jellyfish, because his class had gone on a field trip to the aquarium, and the moon jellies were his favorites. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When school ended for the year, Link and Marty and I went to one of the moons of Jupiter to stay with Marty’s aunt for a few weeks. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead the moon shone through the bars of the fire escape, and it kept pace with us as we walked inside, like some restless animal pacing in its cage. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She never does anything but moon around. Just like you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And suddenly there was the moon, joking around in the haze and tossing a dull light that shimmered the fog to the color of old pearls. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

By nightfall snow was coming down so heavily that the moon rose behind a white curtain, unseen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man had been driving with his head sticking out the window, staring up at the moon, looking to see the spaceship. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I see a dark sky and a blood-red moon. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Just the liquid silver reflections of the moon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” said Roza to the horse, “boy with eyes great moons of love.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were between the earth and the moon, in constant sunlight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the moon came out and shone like a flashlight right into the room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Elberon the night before, under nearly a full moon, hundreds of railroad workers had toiled in the oppressive heat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The top of this mountain must reach the moon.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was growing again, and its milky light spilled through gaps in the tree’s canopy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a faded red heart painted on her breast and a yellow crescent moon, worn down and crooked, painted where her body would have blended into the ship’s wood. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the moon, with no atmosphere, astronomers would not have this problem, and they would be able to learn a lot more about our universe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moon of cold silver shone on the river in a brilliantly luminous band. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Limerick moon was so bright I could see bits of it shimmering in the water and I wanted to scoop up moon bits but how could I with the fleas leaping on my legs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had been walking all night, and the moon—nearly full—had vanished in the trees, taking the light with it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For my science project, I’m going to make a model of the moon’s surface and perform an experiment to infer how the moon’s impact craters were formed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

That night, after skating on the pond under the silver moon and Jupiter, Joseph talked more than he had ever talked before altogether. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Another five minutes and Maya could probably launch herself to the moon. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

By the time the crescent moon slid past the windowsill and peeked into the room, Fyrian was snoring. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tally and David were in the darkness, climbing the ridge back toward the Smoke, the sky full of stars now that the moon had set. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s dark outside, though the moon is bright enough for us to see where we’re going. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting patiently on my father’s boat, moon eyes gazing at me, like she’s always been there, and always will be. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I would show August the picture of my mother and see if the moon broke loose and fell out of the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, they were launched by the Saturn IB booster, which was the baby brother of the huge Saturn V required to reach the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big grinning Ozark moon had the countryside bathed in a soft yellow glow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the dream I’d had that night Rosaleen and I slept by the pond, how the moon had cracked to pieces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real moon shone through the casement window. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As he stared, he puzzled at the moon’s shape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, you have seen them. And you don’t believe it! I’ll have you begging to get in here. I’ll have you screaming at the moon.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a gift. These are moon sands. I was told to give these to you in exchange for the medicine. I guess that doesn’t make it a gift and more like a payment.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smells are richer than here, and before long the moon will rise and my brother will sing to it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Also inside the box was what appeared to be a very thin, old blanket, covered with images of stars and moons. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He explains that he’s been waiting for the full moon to rise so that he might navigate the darkened roads by night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The first human to set foot on the moon.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shot out from behind a cloud, and there she was in the field, brandishing a cane, her white hair blowing in the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fred found a moon snail with a shell the size of a baseball. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She looked at me as if Id just dropped from the moon. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the shelter of a tree, Taylor cupped her hand into a familiar motion, waving to the moon as if it were an admiring crowd. she said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everything gleamed, reflecting the moon so strongly he needed no lights to land. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose that Kennedy had said, “We don’t choose to go to the moon because it is easy.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Behind them the sliver of moon had drawn dear of the horizon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We were quiet for a minute; he stared at the moon and I stared at him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"You really should have a moon manicure. I'll have my nail attendant do one for you. When I am regent queen, I will mandate it. Even for Belles. Everything about a person should be beautiful." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Now it was much darker and the moon was high, and then ahead there was an officer, a staff officer, sitting on a black horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There's no moon tonight,” said the first, a boy with laughing blue eyes and dirt on his cheek. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was nothing they could do but stand there like fools and watch her shape get smaller in the sky—a distant moon, a fading star, then gone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We continued our walk, the moon was shining, making the houses and shops around us seem washed and pale. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Newspaper reporters frequently asked us what the most dangerous part of our trip to the moon would be, and I usually answered, “That part which we have overlooked in our preparations. ” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you looked at the moon too much out there. Soon you're going to start living by your horoscope, just like your mother.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had been up for a long time but he slept on and the fish pulled on steadily and the boat moved into the tunnel of clouds. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not even know that a First Folio of Shakespeare was any nearer to me than the moon,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She paced on her terrace, back and forth beneath the moon, while down in the city her moths went from house to house like bees from flower to flower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This fact is now generally accepted; and we do not have to try to find in every mythological heroine the moon or the dawn and in every hero’s life a sun myth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the full moon comes over the tips of the hemlocks in the east and the sun goes down in the west, I climb down the falls and splash toward the bridge. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we watched Apollo 11 blast off to the moon. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The pale moon dipped in and out of the strands of clouds so that Juana walked in darkness for a moment and in light the next. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chang-o. She lives on the moon and today is the only day you can see her and have a secret wish fulfilled.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the light of the moon, I bring him to a stand of small trees where we both relieve ourselves. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was purple and lavender, and had designs of the sun, moon, and stars stitched all over it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now’s the time. You could ask for the moon and they’d have to find some way to get it.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Pinmei closed her eyes, imagining Amah’s face gazing at her, as steady and gentle as the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A grand moon drifted, and the wings of the citadel cut the sky in two: light above, dark below. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Behind were the trees and the shadow of the cathedral, and the town silhouetted against the moon. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

"I sat by the door, and the moon was full." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They kissed until his brain spun, until her limbs fell loose and soft and open, until the moon hid its face behind a veil of clouds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"A city pale as die moon and lovely as a maid. An hour's ride, no more." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The moon is asleep and I’m sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleep in. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take a flying fuggut the moon?” he said kindly and he turned back to look at the girl. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah heard those things and imagined her mother on the moon and being blown up by bombs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The moon outside was so full it looked as if it would burst, and moistness dampened his eyes. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon climbed higher and the air returned to stillness and waiting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glaring floodlights made the moon look faded. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Tell me the truth of this, moon of my life," he commanded in Dothraki. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It's a cloudy night with no moon, and I can't even make out the crumbling Bank Tower sign at the top of the building. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We could see the ring on Saturn, three moons on Jupiter, and the craters on our own moon. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, seen from the moon, the Earth would look like a gigantic moon; seen from even further away, it would be a bright star in the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We anticipate underground oceans of slush and water in these moons, a hint, before we have ever seen the surfaces of the Galilean satellites close up, that they may be very different one from another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think about that, and so, despite the throb in her legs, she got up to dance again under the bright full moon. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The clouds had come quickly, covering the stars and moon in what seemed like minutes, and then just opened up and dropped everything on them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even the moon looked cold; there were goose- bumps all across its face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time the moon was full again, he would be back in Winterfell with his brothers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The first night of the full moon, then.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once I’m out of the woods and on the main road, a full moon bathes the fields around me in a shimmering, pearly light. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sun and moon declare, our beauty's very rare . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A soft evening light shone over them from the stars and the luminous double moons of Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their limbs wove through one another and creaked with every breath of wind, and their higher branches scratched at the face of the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moon lights the sidewalks, and the night air feels good on my face. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

During the next full moon, he would be going to the Third World. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And a mind movie plays in my head of a silver rocket with blue stripes flying to the moon with Keisha, Albert, and me strapped in. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

These rocks have helped scientists understand how the moon was formed, but doubts still persist. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By three a.m. the moon closed in on the horizon. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, try some nice fresh moon flesh,” he says, and into her mouth goes something that tastes a lot like cheese. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And launch me to the moon and back. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I turn right where purple flowers curve like baby moons over butterfly bushes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In such a lonely void you can begin to understand how even the most significant objects–Pluto’s moon, for example–have escaped attention. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom hurried out to the yard and started digging holes by the light of the moon, looking for our jar of cash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like many other Americans, Katherine bridled at the reality of the Russians’ metal moon orbiting overhead. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her face was the most beautiful I’d ever seen: perfect makeup, dazzling eyes, a smile that would’ve lit up the dark side of the moon. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I spent my time doing routine housekeeping chores, like adding chlorine to the drinking water, and watching the moon get smaller and the beautiful earth grow larger and more inviting as each hour went by. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, thank you, but that I can’t. And it’s not a long ride. I think—of course, I know—there’ll be a moon.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They thought he was brighter than the moon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“That way, if there’s a door in the moon you can open it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She turns back and hits the button on the wall, sucking out the golden light of Sagan’s sun and moons as it slides shut. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It says, ‘Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon,’” the king said slowly, holding the paper for his father to see, ‘“and the truth.’” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She walked out of her tent and saw hundreds of the barbarians sitting upon the sand, the sand gold under the moon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat talking on the wrecked ship until the moon got low and the water lapped at our throats and Emma began to shiver. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At first the road took me by open areas, but soon it led me into a forest of densely twisted trees that allowed neither moon nor starlight to seep through. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cole focused his blurred vision on the full moon. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Our country’s symbol is the eagle, and one night I traced a landing eagle out of a bird book, and sketched the moon underneath the bird, with the earth in the background. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the lines of communication have been broken, and thus we do not have tidings of our beloved homeland for many a full moon.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She might as well have said, “Why don’t you borrow a pair of wings and fly to the moon?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The moon was gibbous that evening, and the air cold. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Big clouds covered the moon, but he could still see the stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had never taken time to answer a single question; though we worked in the institute, we were as remote from the meaning of the experiments as if we lived in the moon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon disappeared and took the stars with it, making the sky weep. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Awesome,” he says after he shoots a marble out of the Japanese robot’s belly to blast his own impact crater on the surface of my cake-pan moon. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In my dream I was back on the peach farm, sitting out behind the tractor shed, and even though it was broad daylight, I could see a huge, round moon in the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a moon but the starlight served better than moonlight. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I awoke that morning, the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, the straw mat covering my bed was already sticky. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up, skimming clouds over the surface of the full moon, which was hung just to make us feel powerful and strong. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once a month, at the full moon, the otherwise sane and normal wizard or Muggle afflicted transforms into a murderous beast. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later the sinking moon escaped from the pursuing cloud, but it was ringed all about with a sickly yellow glare. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Americans did not commemorate the fullest moon of the year, but the Wongs had done so for centuries. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But there was enough moon for them to find their way into the casde, and he could tell her about his day in Washington. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The full moon rose in the eastern horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I felt proud to be representing my country, and I was glad that Neil and Buzz had planted an American flag on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had long since disappeared and now the dawn was breaking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful night, full moon, the meadow like silver and the housefronts throwing square black shadows sharp as cutouts on the grass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood staring out in the darkness, watching the moon and the stars perhaps, or perhaps the sentries on the wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The moon shone on the garden like it had been hung in the sky for that purpose alone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then a huge golden moon came down from the heavens and settled on the surface of the calm waters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud shadowed the moon, and the room darkened. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my dream the moon was full but it was green, bright green—I kept thinking, We’re in the limelight! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Comets must therefore be sublunary, not supralunary: below the moon, not above it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His face was as mild and hopeless as ever; mooning above the snappy, rigid blouse, it gave him the air of an impostor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a good light from the moon, with no one in sight except our own men.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Craters on the moon can be caused either by the impact of meteorites or by volcanic action. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lewald’s voice echoed in the background as the announcer labored to fill the air, describing the uniforms of various teams, the platform on which the speakers stood, the Hindenburg circling overhead like a near moon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The storm had ended; a moon rose, and they saw the whitewashed houses rising on steep hills, gleaming in the moonlight. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately, the stars disappeared and the moon reappeared. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other news, protests continued today against the American annexation of the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It had a little crescent moon and a mouse on it. He probably still has it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

This was a tricky time for Neil and Buzz, to make sure they came down at exactly the right spot on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was full, and my sister and Nathan were a vision under its light. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She walked into a dark room, peeked out from behind a shade, and saw the sheik high up in the cherry tree silhouetted against the moon. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched for the moon but couldn’t find that either. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sand of the beach was very white, cold and grainy, like sago, like the dust on the surface of the moon, and it was night, too, it was dead and cold and black. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The moon is not drawn but is mentioned in the inscription. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sealskin kayak beside the door glowed as if the moon had been stretched across it and its graceful ribs shone black. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon glows behind a haze of clouds. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed out loud at the thought of her being able to see what was happening on the moon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Apollo 8, as Borman’s flight was called, had to aim at a place in the sky where the moon would be three days later. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below our hill, the lights of Oakland would gleam like a cloud of fireflies and the wrinkling waters of the bay would turn to quicksilver under the moon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of its scientific instruments are on a scan platform, which tracks Jupiter or one of its moons as the spacecraft hurtles past. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as we reach the top of another wooded hill and the moons are directly overhead, I finally hear the Noise of men, clear as a crash. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before we could land on the moon, however, we still had a lot of work to do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well, we’ll prepare one. It will be ready when the moon rises. In the meantime, you shall sleep.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, as long as there have been human beings, I suspect that they have wondered about the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We returned from the first day of harvest by the first light of the moon as it came through the portal formed by the black mesas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One convenient spot would be at a point where the pull of the earth, moon, and sun balance each other, so that the new country would stay there indefinitely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weak moon was losing its light and the clouds thickened and curdled to the southward. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll like this one. It’s about a young man who falls in love with the moon. He tries to steal it. Perhaps he’s your culprit.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Of their own accord they could no more run to the hills than fly to the moon. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d take me outside at night and whisper in my ear about the stars and the moon and the night wind. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

With no air or water, the moon would be a very difficult place for humans to live, or even visit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had enough holes for the moon to shine through it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept running toward the moon to tell the Moon Lady what I wanted, because now I knew what my wish was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave her a bit of my company, and assured her that I had checked the lock, and told her that the flag on the moon was splendid. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the constant sunshine between earth and moon, it was difficult to decide whether it was “morning” or “noon” or “evening.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We even sent a few guys to the moon and brought them back. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Relative to the planet, it was the biggest moon in the solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s dark, but the moon provides just enough light to see by. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the library, checked out books on the moon and the planets, and read them, taking notes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Another woman lay awake under the moon, listening to the wind and the occasional whine of a police siren. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They waited till the cloud covered the moon and then, first at a walking pace and afterwards at a gentle trot, made for the shore. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Gray, smooth, kind of shaped like a crescent moon. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Any moment now, that cloud was going to move aside and show the moon.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That night the full moon hung round and orange in the sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A skinny moon lay tipped on its back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For all he knew it was like chasing the moon. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Frost had begun to sparkle on the dry sedge and a cloud trailed across the moon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was so bright that everything under the trees was caught in a net of confusing shadows. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The moon had risen higher since she and I had been by the horn, and the light coming from it wasn’t as bright. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The streetlights were like moons cupped in iron fingers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Every night the moon made its slow passage over Stonetown, and every night Reynie Muldoon gazed up through the window of the drafty old house, remembering the moonlit meetings of the Mysterious Benedict Society. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the same week, as well, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and some children — understandably — seemed to prefer that historic moment to Sesame Street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have dangled from a cord a hundred miles above this planet; I have been privileged to go beyond this planet’s moon, briefly, into the black void beyond. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the moon was supposed to get hit tonight by an asteroid or something. One of my teachers mentioned it. She was going to a meteor party in Central Park to watch.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moon shone on the water when we got there. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gibbous moon rose above the shoulder of 27,824-foot Makalu, washing the slope beneath my boots in ghostly light, obviating the need for a headlamp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a lovely night with the June moon floating high over Limerick and you can feel a warm breeze off the Shannon River. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then TJ opens up that tenor voice of his and starts to sing this song he wrote for me many moons ago. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Anya nearly answered in the affirmative—that was like asking if Ivan knew what the moon was—but then she stopped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter had been confirmed within a few months. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I spend a long time online choosing a picture of the moon. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The moon lit the trees and the empty buildings as he drove through downtown. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Out on the kings- road, it had seemed to cover half the sky, outshining the crescent moon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

These are some of the reasons why we should want to be like the moon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Usually he did this when the moon was big, and he came back in the morning, but that night there was no moon and he did not return. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand roofs stretched out below her, painted in shades of ivory and silver by the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Almost disgusting, Rat said, the way they mooned over each other. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, we dragged the ammo cans closer to Bobby Jorgenson’s bunker, and this, plus the moon, gave a sense of approaching peril, the slow belly-down crawl of evil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So of course there is more than one dragon pearl. Though the dragon pearl that makes the moon is by far the largest.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hung ripely between two heavy gray clouds. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet bent toward Prosper who was leaning against the wall and staring up at the moon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like that song lyric she quoted in one of her videos: “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the tree, scarce daring to breathe, while the moon crept slowly across the black sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We must strive to be like the moon.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Kehaar’ll fly you up to the moon, Hlao-roo,” said Bluebell, “and you can come down on Bigwig’s head like a birch branch in the frost. But there’s time to go to sleep first.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, aided by the light of the full moon and a sputtering candle Fadi had found in the empty house, they crawled around in the dirt, excavating dozens of shallow holes. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Patti leaves, I stare out the window at the moon. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The ice acts like a mirror and the world seems to have two sunrises and at night two moons, one in the sky and one on the ice. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When I'm done singing, Rani says, "You're so funny, Kabir. You sing about the moon and you don't see what it does? It never gives up." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The moon and stars looked down upon their struggle, their pale light filtered through the tangle of bare limbs that twisted overhead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘We are the Uruk-hai: we do not stop the fight for night or day, for fair weather or for storm. We come to kill, by sun or moon. What of the dawn?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We had a moon snail page in the field guide already, but this specimen was freakishly large. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, a bird flew down and perched on Meggie’s bed, a bird as orange as the light of last night’s moon. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He sat in the crypt, aching to be out in the summer’s twilight, under the ghost moon. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The competition unfolded on the first night of the full moon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He says the moon pulls the ocean back.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The moon was sup-posed to rise but there was a mist over the town and it did not come up and in a little while it started to drizzle and we came in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then Shirley said in a small voice, “It is so sad, moon cakes without Grandfather. When will we all be together again?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tara? Every fairy hippie in the northern hemisphere will be dancing around the Lia Fáil at the full moon. There’ll be so many shields on, it’ll look like the whole place is underwater.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now the rising moon had limned them in white and silver. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Around us were cream-puff clouds, their edges outlined by the faint glow of a crescent moon.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had once been missions to colonize Mars, to explore Jupiter’s moons, and even to launch to the stars beyond, but every mission had ended in utter and disastrous failure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We all believe that it isn’t possible to get to the moon; but there might be people who believe that that is possible and that it sometimes happens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I really am, Morales. Blame it on the moon. It’s making me crazy.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moon was still lighting up the studio in a brilliant shine, and it made Pet’s feathers and fur glisten. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the moon I saw the silhouette of a man appear. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the words “Live from the surface of the moon” showed up fuzzy but readable on the television screen, and we were seeing the real moon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We’d be with our uncle, moon over the Jackson Five, and get candy without spending money that could go toward our Madison Square Garden savings. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When he did not come back by the time the moon had swung all the way around her tent and was back again, a whole day, she went out to look for him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a clear sky full of stars with a bright moon overhead, and we passed the time naming the constellations. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He argued that this was because the light from the moons took longer to reach us when we were farther away. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nathan,” Darkness said, “bring these moon sands as a gift to Mother Water Monster.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was full, and it seemed daylight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon, now waxing round, filled the eastern sky with a pale cold sheen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Joseph was the fourth son—a kind of mooning boy, greatly beloved and protected by the whole family. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hung in the sky in front of their window, with a cloud drifting past it like a tattered dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When it finally wavered next to the moon, it looked as if it were the moon’s empty outline. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The trees hid the moon and stars from them, and the forest floor beneath their feet was black and treacherous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moss and leaves are hard like cement beneath my feet, the moon hanging big and low, beams streaming down like searchlights. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sea was black and the moon was silver as the Iron Fleet swept down on the prey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moon was shining cold and white, down into the dell, and the shadows of the bushes were black. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The moon had set already, and the darkness was profound; not a torch flickered anywhere, not a gleam of lamplight shone from any house. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The moon was almost full, the night so clear that she could see the mountains, their peaks crowned with snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a perfect night to run away, thought Fadi, casting a brooding look at the bright sheen of the moon through the cracked backseat window. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We took the trail out to the desert and the three of us made our way up my mighty hill, lit at this point only by the light of the full, shining moon. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then the cloud passed, and the moon shone again. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their voices blended as one beneath the rising moon, while Ghost listened and the mountains themselves bore witness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All the fairies gleamed brilliantly, outshining the flowers of the garden like the sun outshines the moon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Every night, when the stores close and the moon washes the world with milky light, Stella and I talk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Since we are now a family of peasants I will have to learn the time of day and night by the position of the sun and moon in the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it was, spring break, and she was on the moon, where there was all this meg action, and she was there without friends. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark wind blew clouds over the face of the moon and over the little stars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moon seemed to follow them as they went, playing peek-and-sneak among the chimneys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And in the pale light of the moon, he saw the fox in the wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The moon shone through the curtain of falling water to lay a shimmering pale stripe across the sand, but after a time that too faded and went dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I got up from behind the hedge in the waning moon, wet and shaken in the hot air and started out looking for Jack, still turned around in my direction. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a perfect circle, so full of light that all the edges of things had an amber cast. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was much to remember about that time, and much to tell, but the moon in its nightly travels would dwindle, disappear, and fatten again before their stories were entirely told. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Venus swung bright from the ear of the moon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I didn't think the moon had rings," I say. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Ptolemaic system, like those of Plato and Aristotle, claimed that the moon, the sun and all the planets circled around the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He turned over on the grass so that he was staring directly at the moon up in the sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One kid had on a T-shirt with a cartoon character mooning everyone. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The moon was already up, round, white, and beautiful like a thin transparent wafer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that month, President Kennedy had announced to the nation that the United States would have a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

By day, the sun barely peeked through the smoky haze, and at night the stars and moon remained invisible. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

On this night, the moon burned like metal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big events in Jesus’ life were marked with reference to the moon, while everyday life was ruled by the sun. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The moon slipped behind a rolling gray carpet of clouds, and the freshening gusts smelled wet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“She is fearless. She ha; a face like a wicked moon.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Apollo machinery was being designed with two separate spacecraft, which would rendezvous and dock with each other while in orbit around the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, my Antonio, she smiled, we who were baptized in the water of the moon which was made holy by our Holy Mother the Church are saved. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at the moon as it holds itself up in the sky. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Dude,” said a kid from California, “I’m heading straight to the Electronic Learning Center so I can halfpipe the craters on the moon.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They thought the moon looked like dirty beach sand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it really stinks here. If we’re going to look at the second brightest moon in one hundred years, we should probably move away from dead things,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The spacecraft must pass through the outer edge of this radiation belt to examine Jupiter and its moons close up, and to continue its mission to Saturn and beyond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they said they’ll need a moon something before they are done.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z