| 单词 | moonless |
| 例句 | The night was moonless, but a thousand stars shone overhead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quietest boats. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Now that the radio is off, the dining room is silent like a moonless sky. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Over the dying embers of the campfire, on a moonless night, we watched the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the yard, closing the gate behind me noisily, so they could hear me leaving even in the moonless night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She did not like the darkness, which was more complete than anything she had ever experienced—far darker, certainly, than any moonless night in Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A black moth on a moonless night would not have escaped Shadow’s notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Their howls pierced a hole through the moonless night. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Cloud cover made the night moonless, and the dark felt thick. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Always he watched ahead, though his eyes in the moonless night could see no more than the painted eyes aside the boat’s blind prow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z At first it seemed all hollow and singular, but by the last fading light of the moonless sky we caught the outline of a ladder on the far wall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I could barely see his face that moonless night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she talks to Gina on the phone, he slams out the RV door and goes for a walk, even if it’s a dark and moonless night. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was a night almost without clouds, moonless and starry; but of this on the whole depressing fact Lenina and Henry were fortunately unaware. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was darker than an underground cave on a moonless night. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The silence of the catacombs is as vast as a moonless night, and as eerie. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z On moonless nights the water was as black as maester’s ink, from horizon to horizon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the dark, in the moonless jungle, the fissures are not so visible, the hypocrisies and lies less disturbing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She stayed under for as long as she dared and then surfaced, starting to swim across the moonless water with every ounce of strength remaining to her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I remember that on that moonless night in February 1942, they attacked the big Lago oil refinery on Aruba, the sister island west of us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The night was black and moonless, but overhead a million stars burned bright. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When darkness had fallen over everything, and the stars burned bright in a moonless sky, they went to sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She smelled his rotting leg in Africa, where it would be blown off his body on a moonless savanna night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She shone as bright as the stars on a moonless night. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z It’s a clear night, moonless, filled with antiseptic stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ivy in the moonless forest, keeping watch for the witch. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Nat went out into the dark, moonless night, and walked down Turner’s Lane and out on the wharf. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tonight will be moonless, but it will not be dark. I promise. Now, if you will excuse me, I must prepare for our party. I will see everyone back here at dusk! Good-bye!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There was no hint of another color in his coat; it was blacker than moonless midnight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and concentrated, willing the children back to their homes in dark corners and under the moonless sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If one looks at the sky on a clear, moonless night, the brightest objects one sees are likely to be the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a moonless night, so we couldn’t see Mom except when she ran into the beam of the headlights. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Now it’s full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as was once thought, which are not where we think they are. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Through the window, quite suddenly, the moonless night brightened. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She shone as bright as the stars on a moonless night. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z On moonless nights it was as black as coal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Naomi shrugged on a sweater, rebraided her hair, and walked out into the moonless night. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The river was dark as ink, and the boat soon vanished against the glass-smooth black surface of the strong current under a moonless night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her yellow dress looked white in the moonless night. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the moonless sky was made even murkier by the swirling, smoky haze. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It rose from far away on a moonless evening as I tried to sleep on the floor of a hut. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was unnaturally bright under the moonless sky—partly from the dream, partly from the searchlights that switched on as the pitch of the alarm changed from a trill to a warning siren. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It’s possible to visit nearby oases on a camel and stay overnight in the desert under the open sky, an unforgettable experience on both full moon and moonless nights. Great desert adventures: readers’ travel tips 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Night diving resembles a caravan of cars snaking down an unlit mountain road on a moonless evening, inducing a strangely disembodied feeling. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The poem goes on to suggest that a potent physical experience began the trajectory, even though it was "oblivion" that gave the protagonist "a morsel of moonless night/ Left on her lips". Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z It’s the territory of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, visited on its direst moonless night. The Playlist: Arcade Fire and Gorillaz Return, With Money and Power on Their Minds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Go on a cloudy or moonless night, when the bay is at its most brilliant. The Caribbean ?roundup: In the Caribbean, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-11T19:50:00Z Try to look on a clear, moonless night, as the moon tends to block starlight. For the best stargazing, head to a patch of dark sky 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z It was as if a blindfold — making the world darker than a moonless, starless night — had been tightly bound around my head. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z Charles wanted to live in a place that never got as pitch-black as the country on a moonless night, so he went to Washington. How do you keep a job for 60 years? This man knows: Be irreplaceable. 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z She writes, “There is no atlas charting that lonely, moonless stretch of highway between where you start and who you become.” When Silver Linings Don’t Cut It, Honesty Helps 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Watch the stars: Many campgrounds in the Southwest are designated Dark Sky Places, and on moonless nights, star-watching programs are frequently run by volunteers with expensive telescopes. Take a road trip to Utah’s Red Rock Country 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The two boarded a plane to Cologne and made their way to the Dutch border, where, on a moonless night, a peasant guided them across a brook, under barbed wire and into Holland. Maria V. Altmann, Pursuer of Family Klimts, Dies at 94 2011-02-09T05:24:09Z The quality of the darkness was different from, say, a moonless night in dense forest, or wearing a blindfold. Into a Lava-Lined Underworld Near Albuquerque 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z And if this time two years from now finds you pushing 36 and failing to conceive, then your marriage will be generating enough white-hot resentment to read by on a moonless night. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fiance is in�trac�table about changing his timetable on having kids 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z We've heard the stories of heroism and cowardice; of unpreparedness and panic; of not enough lifeboats; of a moonless night and calm, icy waters. The Titanic sinks again, on stage and screen 2012-04-04T23:27:04Z Though the pool is heated, neither took the bait and instead fake-baked beneath the moonless sky. At the Caribbean Motel, doo-wop the night away The ideal setting is pitch-black with a clear, moonless sky. Every winter, the aurora borealis turns the night sky into a paint box of colors 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z As her mother tells her, “You learn you can live through the moonless nights.” New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z After a few minutes in the moonless silence, it felt a little lonely. Old fire lookouts offer sleepovers with history, panoramas and unexpected comfort 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But this rom-com leans on shrewd writing rather than star power in its nine interlocking love stories, all happening in the same New England town on the same moonless night. Theater Review: ‘Almost, Maine’ Is a World of Vignettes 2014-02-05T21:15:58Z When the solar system was young, the infant Earth was moonless, a solitary planet looping around the primordial sun. The moon is even older than we thought 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s not easy to spot—at a magnitude of 5.5, you need a dark site and a moonless night to see it—but that does raise an interesting question: How many naked-eye stars host planets? The Sky Is Full of Stars—and Exoplanets, Too 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z I hope you can spot a few on the next clear, moonless night. Can You Spot a Satellite? 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z If you’re able, the next time you’re out in a dark spot on a moonless night, be on the lookout for these ephemeral cosmic visitors. The Science of Shooting Stars 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Finally, remember that you will get your best viewing on moonless nights away from brightly lit areas. 5 famous constellations that (almost) anyone can find 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z In general, when viewing from a dark, moonless site, most people with normal eyesight will see stars down to magnitude 6.0. What’s the Faintest Star You Can See in the Sky? 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In the Titanic's case, the captain sped across the Atlantic on a moonless night despite being told about icebergs. James Cameron says he wishes he'd sounded alarm over lost submersible 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z It was a moonless night and it was drizzling. Rafiganj crash: Haunting images of a deadly 2002 India train disaster 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z The best views of the meteors happen when the sky is dark and moonless. How to see the Lyrid meteor shower at its peak 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z On moonless nights in the Caribbean, the sea erupts in spectacular displays put on by tiny crustaceans called ostracods. Light shows by these tiny crustaceans reveal rich biodiversity on Caribbean reefs 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The atmosphere is mysterious and nocturnal, with a blackened stage like a moonless night, though at times brightly colored projections appear. Review | ‘13 Tongues’ is not enough to tell a story, but the vibe is glorious 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z On a warm, moonless spring evening, a secretive male scorpion set out for an evening walk along the floor of one of California’s most desolate playas in search of food, or maybe even love. 2 Bay Area students discover 2 new scorpion species, but worry about the arachnids' survival 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Male ostracods only display for about an hour, shortly after sunset on moonless nights in warm Caribbean seas. How the sea fireflies of the Caribbean are shining new light on evolution 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z On a typical dark, moonless night, an alert observer can see half a dozen meteors per hour. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z From horizon to horizon, from stern to bow, the sea all around them was glowing as their 52-foot-long ketch passed south of the Indonesian island of Java on a moonless night. They Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes: The Ocean Was Glowing. 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z On hot, moonless nights in New Zealand, they fan out across beaches in search of an elusive, shimmering quarry. These Photographers Chase New Zealand’s Glowing Waves 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z But bad weather in northwestern Syria and a desire to carry out the mission on a moonless night pushed the operation to Feb. 2. A One-Legged Man Bathing on a Rooftop in Syria? Must Be ISIS’ Leader. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In addition to the need for planning and training, there were practical considerations, such as weather and the lunar phase, a moonless night being the preferred choice for commando operations. With watchers on the ground and spy drones overhead, U.S. zeroed in on Islamic State leader’s hideout 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z There are some lyrical touches, such as when Othello, having fled his captor, “laid his body down in the grass beneath the star-spangled bowl of the moonless night.” Review | Jonathan Evison’s ‘Small World’ feels like a big statement about America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z He first met the gang on a moonless night in Chambal. Malkhan Singh: The surrender of India's bandit king 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The filming took place on a moonless night, and the pilot wasn’t wearing night-vision goggles at the time of the crash. Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' shooting accident: A lookback at Hollywood’s biggest on-set tragedies 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The February 2013 filming took place on a moonless night, and the pilot wasn’t wearing night vision goggles at the time of the crash. After ‘Rust’ shooting, a look at other notable set accidents 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z But whenever I looked up at a moonless night sky, I wondered how I might one day count the stars. Analysis | Intelligent life probably exists on distant planets — even if we can’t make contact, astrophysicist says 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z This year promises to be particularly good for the Perseids, since the shower’s peak will coincide with a dark, moonless sky. 10 spectacular stargazing events to watch in 2021 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z On a moonless night in the Mediterranean the vessel sank. 1,000 lost on one boat - this woman hopes to name them 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z On a moonless night, a team of researchers boarded a rigid inflatable boat in the coastal city of Plymouth, England. Light Pollution from Coastal Cities Reaches Seafloor 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z So did the adrenaline rush of battling squalls and inching across moonless nights when an unseen wave might strike at any moment, sweeping her overboard. At age 60 and paralyzed, she tried to row across the Pacific 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z On dark and moonless nights, that can include the cosmos. Special Report: Meet the masters of social distancing - Couple live alone in wilderness for decades 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z "On moonless nights your eyes become so light-sensitive that the rise of Venus and other planets casts a reflective path on the sea that we normally only experience from the Sun or Moon." In the middle of the Pacific with nowhere to land 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The night was moonless, and reading road signs was a chore, but we progressed well into south Georgia without error. A rough ride with Charlie Sifford - Golf Digest 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z “The most risky nights are when it’s moonless, damp and misty.” Taxi! Endangered New Zealand seabirds get a lift to safety after crash landing in fog 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z On a moonless night, the darkness was broken only by the headlights of passing cars. Opinion | In Search of Darkness 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z There I was, as close to 40 as made no difference, alone in a forest on a moonless night and weeping with cathartic abandon at the sight of a threadbare stuffed animal. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s night at our place in the Catskills, moonless and clear. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Similarly, in Abisko, Sweden, we planned our trek for moonless nights and were lucky to witness dramatic displays of the Aurora Borealis. Under the glow of moonlight, trudge through the snow on one of these snowshoe adventures 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z She switched off the ignition and stepped out into the moonless night, alone. On a vast reservation, female Navajo officers patrol with bulletproof vests and protective amulets 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The plot of “Pierre” is set in motion by the arrival of a letter, handed to Pierre at a garden gate in the dark of a moonless night by an obscure, hooded figure: Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The park also skipped its popular night-sky program, where rangers set up four telescopes to let visitors look at the Milky Way on moonless evenings. Piles of poop, toilet paper 'flowers' greet rangers as parks reopen after government shutdown 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z It is set to peak Thursday night into Friday, when more than 100 shooting stars per hour will streak overhead beneath dark, moonless skies. Back-to-back fireballs bolted through Washington’s sky Monday evening 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z On a moonless night, the light that reaches Earth is a trillion–fold less than on a sunny day. How humans—and other mammals—might have gotten their night vision 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z “But how sweet and peaceful will be their slumbers!” he wrote, “How calmly will they rest in their silent mansions, till the night, the moonless night of death is passed.” The gentrification of death: in New York eternal rest will soon be a luxury 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z KELLETTVILLE, Pa. — Picture a moonless June evening, shortly after midnight, deep in a northwestern Pennsylvania forest. TravelLab: In a forest on the trail of synchronous fireflies 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “It was a moonless night, almost impossible to photograph.” ‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer’s heart 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “I recall my first foreign agent meeting was on a dark, moonless night with an agent I’d never met before,” Haspel is expected to say. Haspel to pledge never to restart CIA’s brutal interrogation program 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Does your mind even begin to comprehend the sight of billions of sparkling stars that blanket the sky on a moonless night? For Easter, allow yourself to marvel at God’s creation 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z He said agents looking for tracks on a moonless night would be vulnerable. Border Patrol agent died in fall, according to memo contradicting Trump’s claim of attack 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He would be "sign cutting" — searching with his flashlight for footprints and other signs of activity on a moonless night in the high desert. Fiancee wants to solve mystery of Border Patrol agent's death 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z This year promises to be particularly good in terms of performance, since the peak will coincide with a dark, moonless sky on the night of August 12 and into the predawn hours of August 13. Top 8 Must-See Sky Events for 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Kambale Mate huddled beneath a tangle of grass, looking up at bright stars in a moonless sky, a tumble of chaotic events cascading through his mind. 'Am I going to get out of here alive?' In one of Africa's most dangerous corners, a fight to the death for the elephants 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But this year, the overnight hours during the shower’s peak will be dark and almost moonless—the waning crescent moon won’t rise until 4:30 a.m. local time on December 14. Geminids 2017: How to See One of the Year's Best Meteor Showers 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z He said Martinez’s injuries were consistent with a fall in challenging desert terrain on a moonless night. FBI examining Border Patrol agent’s death as a ‘potential assault’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Carrillo said that Saturday was a moonless night and that the agents were walking along difficult terrain with deep culverts. A Border Patrol agent is dead in Texas, but the circumstances remain murky 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z On a moonless night in mid-October, Wayne Nichols, 42, lit a cigarette and climbed up to the captain’s seat of a splatter-painted skiff. Florida Opened a Fake Alligator Farm to Catch Poachers 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z With a moonless, dark sky, the best views will be in the early morning hours of the 16th, with as many as 10 to 20 shooting stars an hour visible from the dark countryside. Trio of Meteor Showers and More Can’t-Miss Sky Events in November 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z And thanks to a mostly moonless sky, the Orionids promise to be one of the most beautiful celestial shows of the year. How to Watch the 2017 Orionid Meteor Shower 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z This year, the meteor shower will be peaking under moonless skies, so viewing is expected to be exceptionally good as long as clear skies prevail. Uranus at Its Best, and More Can't-Miss Sky Events in October 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Then softly, quietly, one by one, on a moonless night velvety-dark as a jewelers’ box, nature’s other diamonds began to sparkle. Nature’s gift to Washingtonians: some of the last, best stargazing in the world 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z On the night of August 12, current predictions call for up to 80 shooting stars an hour visible from dark locations in the early evening, when viewers will be under a moonless sky. How to See the 2017 Perseid Meteor Shower 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z On rare occasions, the nighttime sky at Earth’s temperate latitudes becomes bright enough, even on moonless nights, for people to read a book. ‘Bright night’ glowing sky mystery solved 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Mattis urged Trump to launch the raid swiftly: the operation, which was aimed at one of the leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen, required a moonless night, and the window for action was approaching. James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z But on the moonless night when gunfire erupted as he approached a suspected terrorist compound, hitting him in the chest, he joined a group in which he was suddenly more typical. Special-operations troop deaths rise as U.S. relies more on elite forces 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z But on a moonless night when gunfire erupted as he approached a suspected terrorist compound, hitting him in the chest, he joined a group in which he was suddenly more typical. Special Operations Troops Top Casualty List as U.S. Relies More on Elite Forces 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z But Mr. Obama did not act because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on a moonless night and the next one would come after his term had ended. Questions Cloud Risky Raid That Killed an American Commando in Yemen 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Any such analysis as presented in this Q&A, in fact, proceeds in moonless darkness. Why Donald Trump's potential conflicts of interest are so important 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Still, it will be a new moon no matter where you live, and Halloween revelers around the world will be able to lurk this year underneath a largely moonless sky. Rare Halloween 'Black Moon' Explained On moonless, stormy nights, when the rivers flow fast, they travel downstream until they reach the sea. On Epic Spawning Migration, Eels May Travel at Their Own Pace 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z And with a moonless night on August 31, sky conditions should be ideal for meteor viewing. This Week’s Night Sky: See an Eerie Pyramid of Light 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z With moonless overnight hours during the shower’s peak, dozens of shooting stars an hour are expected to be visible across much of the northern half of the globe. See the First Solstice Full Moon in More Than 50 Years 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The chemical engineer escaped on a moonless night, fleeing from ISIS-held territory. Meet the Iraqis Who've Escaped From the Clutches of ISIS 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z With dark, moonless evening skies this week, it’s a perfect time to hunt down a spectacular deep-sky treasure known to backyard stargazers around the world: the Great Orion Nebula. This Week’s Night Sky: Lunar Triad and Cosmic Flower in Bloom The shower will be fairly easy to track down as it coincides with a moonless sky, and will be near the bright star Hadar, or Beta Centauri. This Week’s Night Sky: A Meteor Shower and Dancing Giant Worlds The big test comes on our moonless last night. Travelers in the Dark 1454-09-14T05:00:00Z Ray Davies breathed as he watched a squadron of American F-15E attack fighters vanish into light cloud cover and up into a moonless sky over the Saudi desert. Looking Back at Desert Storm 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z It is best visible when the sky is moonless and the skywatcher is in the dark countryside far from a city. This Week’s Night Sky: A Comet, Meteors, and Clusters at Play 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z There are no lights in the back alleys, so on moonless nights I wander for hours through dark, silent passageways, glimpsing candelit rooms through silk curtains. Welcome to Lamu: Africa’s Most Captivating Artists’ Retreat 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z With mostly moonless night skies this week, it’s the perfect time to hunt down the most distant object visible to the naked-eye—the Andromeda galaxy, also called M31. This Week’s Night Sky: Andromeda Time Machine 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z They detected when Israeli pilots were put on alert and identified moonless nights, which would give the Israelis better cover for an attack. Spy vs. Spy: Inside the Fraying U.S.-Israel Ties 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z “In moonless dark skies, the unaided human eye can discern, on average, between two and three thousand stars randomly strewn across the sky,” Tyson wrote in an e-mail. Florida’s Offense: It Came From Outer Space 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A whole pack, howling in the moonless night—a chorus of coyotes on the edge of the wilderness. Can Wolves Bring Back Wilderness? [Excerpt] 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Watch the Draconids shoot through the sky Thursday and Friday on moonless nights that promise great views. Spectacular Meteor Shower This Week: How to See It 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z There were seven possible levels of illumination ranging from that of a moonless summer night to that of a brightly lit office. Eye Treatment Closes In on Being First Gene Therapy Approved in U.S. 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Standing watch on a moonless, overcast night when we were totally surrounded by dark - it felt like traveling into a black void. Bidding farewell to the Barry, ship to leave Navy Yard 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes there isn’t even polarized light to navigate by—like on a moonless night. Why Dung Beetles Watch the Sky While Rolling Poop Balls 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The flight was the second segment being filmed on a moonless night with little ground illumination. Lawsuits settled over 2013 helicopter crash that killed 3 during filming of reality TV show 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z With a moonless sky coinciding with the Perseids’ peak, expect a great performance this year. This Week's Night Sky: Meteor Shower and a Dip in Lagoon Nebula 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Two-thirds of those in the treated group were able to complete the course in the dimmest light, the level corresponding to a moonless summer night. Eye Treatment Closes In on Being First Gene Therapy Approved in U.S. 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z While the Geminids don’t peak for a few months, the Perseids have started already, and will peak on the nights of August 12th and 13th, which just happen to be moonless nights this year. Meteor Showers: A Billion-Year Journey For A Second Of Brilliance 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Davis begins strong, with bayonets fixed, in a trench outside Yorktown, Va., on the dark, moonless night of Oct. America at war across time and across the globe 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z On a moonless night a week later, they drove to Absi’s villa. Journey of a Teen-Age Jihadi 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z In conditions equivalent to a moonless night, the roach eye absorbed one photon every 10 seconds. Cockroaches Accumulate Light to See in the Dark 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z On clear, moonless evenings, most of the biggest optical telescopes around the world begin the night's observations by firing a golden laser beam at the sky. Astronomy: Laser focus 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Then the scientists spun black and white gratings around the insect, illuminated by light at intensities ranging from a brightly lit room to a moonless night. Video: How roaches see in pitch-black 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Reid follows it with a powerful flashlight for a few moments, illuminating the creamy orb in the moonless sky. Setting Times stories to music: From Fatboy Slim to Lily Allen 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z On a moonless night, heavily armed militants gained access through a fence, past an unmanned guard tower. Afghanistan: Protecting the withdrawal 2014-04-24T10:04:43Z Since dawn doesn't break until around 4:30 a.m. local time that means there will be between five-and a-half to six hours of dark, moonless skies for the two best viewing nights for the Perseids. Promising Perseid Meteor Shower Will Peak Soon 2013-08-09T19:45:00.797Z Drive down a country road on a moonless night and kill the headlights. Wall Street veteran heads new federal office tasked with making better economic forecasts 2013-04-05T14:41:01Z As the beetles rolled away under a moonless night sky they were filmed by infra-red cameras. How dung beetles navigate: Stars in their eyes 2013-01-23T23:34:23Z This means that the sky will be dark and moonless all through the Geminid's peak night, making for perfect viewing conditions for the shower. A "Gem" of a Meteor Shower Is Coming up Next Week 2012-12-07T21:15:00.310Z As another day in the desert turned toward a cloudy and moonless night, the sister ship peeled off for an emergency landing. DUSTOFF 73 and the ‘Valley of Death’ 2012-11-05T06:00:00Z The most reliable meteor showers—the Perseids in August and the Geminids in December—sport about 60 meteors an hour and require nothing more than a dark, moonless sky in order to appreciate them. The Return of a Great 19th-Century Meteor Shower 2012-10-19T14:15:00.210Z A passenger on the boat used a mobile phone to issue a distress call early Thursday evening, the spokesman said, and rescue ships were immediately mobilized, but the moonless night made the search difficult. Dozens of Migrants Said to Be Missing From Boat Near Italian Coast 2012-09-07T12:53:17Z The moonless night and lack of artificial light make the sea pitch black. Scientist at Work Blog: Glowing Wildly on a Moonless Night 2012-06-29T19:49:03Z Butterworth's The River is described as "a bewitching new story" that takes place around a remote cabin on the cliffs on a moonless night. Butterworth back at Royal Court 2012-06-12T11:01:38Z But, for the rest, there was black gloom, as of moonless, starless nights. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The night was moonless, and they worked by the light of four lanterns. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Accordingly, all was arranged satisfactorily to both parties, and one dark, moonless night the deed was done. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z On a moonless night in the North Atlantic, the liner hit an iceberg and disaster ensued, with 1,500 lives lost. A New Look at Nature?s Role in the Titanic?s Sinking 2012-04-09T17:34:51Z The luminosity of the earth is made evident to us on starless, moonless nights. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It was a perfect summer night, moonless, but the whole purple vault of heaven powdered with stars. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z "He will not be home himself until eleven, at the earliest," the curate muttered as he turned rapidly into the churchyard, which was very dark, the night being moonless. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Then the darkness of evening came, and in the shadows the little people labored in the moonless night. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z There is a class of astronomers known as comet-hunters, and they pass hours upon hours of clear, sparkling, moonless nights in search for comets. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z At midnight, when the watch below came aft and answered to their names in the deep shadow of the moonless tropic night, Ned Tidewell did not answer to his name. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z With all its stars it hung quietly over the fairy valley in solemn and moonless splendor. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z If the night were moonless, he howled on general principles. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In that way we may hope that on a moonless night, as this will be, the boats will not find her, but will suppose that we have sailed away. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The owl had sailed from her silent tower, Tweed hush'd his weary wave, The time was midnight's moonless hour, My seat a dreaded Douglas' grave! The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z The night was moonless and cloudy, with a cold wind blowing from the north. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z The night would be moonless; even if it had been otherwise, moonlight would have been little less dangerous than darkness, for though they could have seen their way, a flickering shadow might have betrayed them. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z The night was moonless, but very clear and soft with the light of the stars. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z When I arrived, at 9:30 on a moonless Wednesday night, a single yellow light bulb illuminated the crowd waiting in the mud-spattered foyer for the elevator. Mohamed Beltagy, Egypt?s Human Bellwether 2012-01-19T22:25:10Z ON a moonless winter night you journey across a perilous landscape of snaking subway trains, howling traffic and steam-hissing sewers. | Williamsburg: At the Twenty Sided Store, Gamers Unleash Their Alter Egos 2012-01-05T21:42:42Z Being a moonless evening, they could not see Madison's face, and he was careful not to let them discover who he was. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z If we look up at the starry heavens on a clear, moonless night, all seems still, lifeless, and devoid of energy and motion. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z There is not a single soul on which to lean—not a sympathizing heart to turn to while fever is burning up his brain, and night, moonless and starless, is settling down around him. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z All his life long, so deep was the impression that fright made on him, a certain nervous tremor seized him whenever he found himself alone on a strange road on a moonless night. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Then he leaned out by a post and looked straight up into the blue-black vault of a moonless July night sky. The Star People 2011-11-06T02:00:16.133Z "Every night and any hour, moonlight or moonless, you'll find them sitting there." Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z On any ordinary night and fairly open track, we could manage to get along, but this night was not only moonless but starless, and thick with gathering rain. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z But there are other nights, moonless and starless, When no moth flutters, no bat flits, owl calls, Something is stirring, something is rustling, Something that is not of mortals befalls In galleries, cellars, and halls. Poems of London and Other Verses 2011-10-15T02:00:29.553Z A gentle breeze had begun to blow away from the camp, and the night was moonless and dark. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z I could see the stars in the cloudless, moonless sky above. Test Pilot 2011-09-21T02:00:37.513Z London was anxious, fevered, and turbulent, that hot, moonless August night. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z Nevertheless, it must be confessed that Dickson and the others greatly dreaded an attack by savages under cover of the moonless darkness of a tropical night. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z The Shee slay great numbers at the full moon, but never hunt on moonless nights, or at the rising of the moon, or when the dew is falling. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Washington's faith went solely to Navy SEALs zooming into another country's sovereign airspace on a moonless night on a mission to assassinate bin Laden, whether he offered the slightest resistance or not. How Washington lost faith in America's courts 2011-08-22T12:17:00Z Not on a moonless night, and especially if he knew the moment when the sentry had just passed overhead and therefore would not soon return. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The night was calm, but moonless, and without delay the vessels all continued the voyage up Channel silently, with lights extinguished. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z It was a glorious night in July, moonless, but crowded with stars. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z He stares up at the Milky Way and a black, moonless sky, awash in stars. Sinai's Above-Ground Underground: Cars, Illegal Migrants and Weed 2011-08-11T23:00:00Z I waited most of a dark and moonless night for the coming of Jack Jaikes to the corner of the wall. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z “Just wait until I have a good chance to tell her a few things,” she wrathfully ruminated as she scudded across the campus in the moonless darkness. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z So it is told that into this perfect peace one August day in 1856, a scarlet sun sank in a green sky, and a moonless night came. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The time for this bold attempt was fixed for a moonless night not far distant. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Thus Endymion can attain union with his goddess only by leaving the green hill-sides where he met her first, and by wandering 231 unhappily in cold moonless regions inside the earth and under the sea. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z With the opera-glass, if you are looking in a clear and moonless night, you will see it as a curious nebulous speck. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The deed was to be done on a moonless night when the weather was not severely cold. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z As still as death he slipped out of his bed, pulled on his overalls that he had hung near, and crept out into the moonless night. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z Night had fallen upon the broad prairie—a moonless night. Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley 2011-07-01T02:00:16.500Z But it is not always so even in the tropics, and the contrary, and not infrequent, experience, without going to extremes, is the squall of a moonless night. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z A few faint stars dotted the moonless sky, and the night air was raw with the frosty breath of late October. The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky 2011-06-23T02:00:24.513Z The tones of the steeple welled out into the far moonless night, which was a great summit sprinkled over with starry blossoms. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z On very clear moonless nights they found that the shape of the sky-dome differs little from that of a hemisphere. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The fixed stars, which appear to the eye so numerous, so innumerable, in the clear sky on a moonless night, are not really so numerous as they seem. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z Hope lit the windows of the Inn, But now that shining flame is dead; And how shall martyred pilgrims win Along the moonless road they tread? The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Then for a moment he gazed out at the moonless night. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z But even moonless terrestrial planets could be habitable, contrary to previous belief. Who Needs a Moon? 2011-05-27T20:55:01Z "H'm!" he remarked; "I must have a bad attack when I see moonbeam faces on a moonless night!" Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z It was a moonless night, which made things all the better for such a saturnalia. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z The night selected as fitting for Badger's enterprise was moonless and somewhat dark, especially so within the added shade of the forest. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z He sat down on his bedstead and, resting an elbow on the window-ledge, gazed out into the starlit, moonless night. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z All through the moonless night he tramped with eager eyes fixed toward the east where the hills piled higher and higher, and penciled a sable, ragged border against the paling, myriad stars. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z On a moonless night eight months later, 79 American commandos in four helicopters descended on the compound, the officials said. Clues Gradually Led to the Location of Qaeda Chief 2011-05-03T01:45:39Z As two choppers packed with American special forces skimmed their way across a moonless sky toward Osama bin Laden's lair, the mission's planners still weren't even sure their target lived there. U.S. Rolled Dice in bin Laden Raid 2011-05-03T00:10:57Z The sun had set, and a moonless sky, studded with a million diamond points, arched over Gardiner and Miss Vane as they drove home through the smoke-scented night air. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z An inclusive thought of the possibilities of the region in the dead dark of a moonless night was what had started him after the bent, black figure scuttling into the fast-dropping gloom ahead. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The sky at the time moonless, he might not have noticed it, but for other dark objects seen in motion beside it, the thing itself being stationary. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The air was delicious after the blaze of the hotel; the black shade of a moonless night was restful; their cigars were fragrant. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z The most notable occurrence, however, which emphasized the visit of the Prince of Wales in that year was the illumination of the Falls late in the evening of a moonless night. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z It turns out just such a night as was wished for—moonless, still not obscurely dark. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The footpath ran at right angles to Trafalgar Road, past a colliery whose engine-fires glowed in the dark, moonless, autumn night, and then across a field. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z The enemy’s lines were about one hundred and fifty yards away, and all observers agree that the chief difficulty experienced in the pitch-black darkness of a cloudy, moonless night is to estimate the distance covered. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z The moonless night was passed in extreme discomfort, owing to a deluge of rain which commenced early, and fell incessantly for many hours. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z In the moonless night the trees were like little dark blurs, the country rose and fell like a turbulent sea. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z It was a glorious summer night, deep blue, and rimmed warmly by the afterglow, moonless, and with a few big lamp-like stars above the black still shapes of trees. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z A moonless night soon closed around the boat, and in the morning we were at Sproat's Landing, a place two months old. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z Though the sky was moonless, there were stars. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z The sky at the time moonless he might not have noticed it, but for other dark objects seen in motion beside it—the thing itself being stationary. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The night was moonless; and the hot south wind which had been blowing during the day had dropped, leaving the upper air so filled with a hazy dust that the stars were dim. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z The night was moonless, but there were many stars. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z The Milky Way is not so simple in its structure as might at first be thought, but a clear and moonless night is required to bring out its details. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z They were strolling on a dark, moonless night when—and she still did not know how it happened—she was in his arms and his lips were on hers. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z They sighted it just before sunset; and, knowing the night would be moonless and pitch dark, it was determined to bring-to at the islet, and remain by it till morning. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The night was moonless, but the heavens were crowded with stars, and seaward the lights burned emerald, diamond, ruby. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z On a moonless, pitch-black but impossibly starry night in early December, I traveled with a U.S. Fighting and Feasting: On the Ground in Afghanistan 2010-12-09T08:40:00Z Upon some clear and moonless night point the camera, properly focused, at Polaris, and expose a plate for three or four hours. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z But every once in a while, on moonless nights, especially, or when buildups are embedded in haze or other clouds ... Out there in the night ... 2010-12-03T01:29:00Z The company’s second platoon and its two sister platoons piled into their personnel carriers about 1 a.m. and rumbled into the night under a moonless drizzle. In Samarra, a Fruitless Raid 2010-08-31T21:56:00Z As the troops, weighed down with ammunition and supplies, lumbered out and set up defensive positions, AV-8B Harrier fighter jets and AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters circled overhead in the moonless sky. 2010-02-13T05:00:00Z The sleigh glided on through the moonless night. The Undying Past It was like the flitting of a white moth through the blackness of a moonless summer night. The Hillman He watched the curve of it on moonless nights, pouring its grand river across the heavens. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath Even those who are used to it, would find it difficult to keep it on a moonless night, as this will be.” Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch The stars were blue as steel in the moonless sky above the arc-lamps; and a cold parching wind had sprung up. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The five buttons leaped out of the shadow like port lights down the bay on a moonless night. The Haunted Pajamas How wonderful in its awe-inspiring realism is the story of Franco's journey across the mountains, in the darkness of a moonless night! The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico The sky was moonless, but brighter, he said, than the sunrise contemplated by him in the hour of his dejection. A Yankee from the West A Novel Yet when Rafael, the alcalde's son, came to the window on moonless nights, Concha was there. The Firebrand Behind them in the quadrangle there were ghosts, and the noise of walking here seemed sacrilegious upon this moonless and heavy summer night. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The velvety blackness of a moonless night weighted the street and matched his mood—a blackness only intensified by the feeble yellow rays of a lantern in a niche above the gate. The Return of Tharn The rose-bushes, the caper-bushes, and the aloes hanging from the wall, passed slowly in the pale light of this starry but moonless night; then the orange-trees, the medlar, and the pine slipped by. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico Among the women the fear of ghosts was yet greater, many of them would not stir abroad on a moonless night even in company. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The young fellow put the letters away in the inside pocket of his blue coat, buttoned it tightly, and slipped out into the night, and was swallowed up by the moonless darkness. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Monday evening was moonless, just the night for a reckless deed. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 There was less than two hours remaining before dawn and they must act quickly or lose their chief aid: the darkness of the now moonless night. The Return of Tharn The night was moonless, but the blue black of the unclouded sky was beautiful with its myriad golden stars, shining as they only can shine in Southern skies. Harley Greenoak's Charge The night was moonless, and heavy clouds had settled down, enshrouding the ship in a gloom that was broken here and there by the faint rays from a port hole. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers The night was moonless, and the distance to be covered about 6� m. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Three days the domes of Ghazna Have gilded Autumn's sky— Three moonless nights of Autumn Have slowly glided by. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 It is moonless, and so far from galactic center that scarcely a hundred stars are visible in the sky. Feet Of Clay It was dark outside already, the close, soft night of a moonless tropical world whose moist atmosphere absorbed even starlight. The Anglers of Arz It was a bitter cold, moonless night, but the stars shone clear. Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna The evening air blew chill, the stars shone faintly through the nebulous atmosphere, and the moonless night was spreading its brown mantle over the earth. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist Now, in the dark silence of a moonless night, the cold stars shone down on a gathering of spectators, wild and unreal—nameless, spectral horrors of a blood-chilling dream. Brood of the Dark Moon Foot and horse got mingled together in the dark and moonless night. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) It was a black, moonless, starless night, and the officer concluded to look. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Above, in the purplish black vault of the moonless sky the stars shone down with icy splendor. Assassin And he sang how once, one moonless, starless night, they attacked a Roman ship camp on the Rhine: the galleys were anchored in the river; on the shore were many tents. A Captive of the Roman Eagles It was moonless and pitch-dark, save for the dense white mist which, in the marshy lands of that river valley, accompanies the turn of the August night. The Battle of Blenheim Then light and swift through the jungle trees We swung in our airy flights, Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms, In the hush of the moonless nights. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 A moonless night and he would be away from all this. Command It was a dark, moonless night and I had very little notion how to proceed. Captain Macedoine's Daughter And our highway was no primrose path, swept and garnished and safeguarded; it had perils enough in gale and tempest, fog, ice, blinding snow, dark moonless nights, rock and shoal and sandbar. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war On moonless nights men groped their way in its narrow streets by the help of swinging lanterns and smoky torches, for no lamps lit the ways. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The evening was clear, though moonless, and the pitying stars came out in the eastern sky, while the west glowed warmly with the great sinking sun, that left a track of glory behind it. Francezka Drawn aimlessly by the pathos of the songster's lay, Carter wandered to the window to gaze out into the moonless midnight. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Slowly the light failed, and the dark moonless night found us lifting lazily to the swell off the north point. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea A moonless night, not a star shines through the sullen upper clouds to mark even a flying break in the lift of it. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war It was a moonless night, and a slight rain was falling, making the darkness intense. History of Morgan's Cavalry The gales of June were breathing by, The twilight's last faint rays were gleaming, And midway in the moonless sky The star of Love was brightly beaming. Home Life of Great Authors It was now after dark, a clear, moonless night. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House The stillness of the whole empty house and the moonless night outside seemed to centre there. The Wishing Moon When you are flying high it is often difficult to know where the land ends and the sea begins, especially on moonless nights. Jimbo A Fantasy He had to be able to know exactly where he was at every moment, even in the blackest of moonless nights, simply by glancing around him. Thin Edge But his merits are equally surprising; and I don’t think I should ever have known Jack’s merits if I had not been riding up of late on moonless nights. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) As a precaution I had waited for a moonless night, and had made my exit with no more noise than was caused by one of the night birds or little beasts that visited our island. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Sleep that was mighty as death and blind as a moonless night Tethered them hand and foot; and their souls were drowned, and the light Was cloaked from their eyes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) He began Chanting the pedlar's tune, keeping the time Thus, jingle, jingle, slowly, with his keys:— I Douglas, in the moonless night —Muffled oars on blue Loch Leven!— Collected Poems Volume Two The stars were shining in a moonless sky. General Bramble Celestial truth Is the food of youth; But the music was dark as a moonless night. Collected Poems Volume One It was afternoon, twilight yet out of doors—starless and moonless twilight; for though keenly freezing with a dry, black frost, heaven wore a mask of clouds congealed and fast locked. Shirley It was a moonless night, but with an intensely blue sky that gave the Milky Way the appearance of a luminous trail across the heavens. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart It was difficult for Kali to find the tracks as it was a moonless night. In Desert and Wilderness It was the rare, deep, moonless night of Iapetus, when the only light came from the far, cold, distant stars that hung faintly twinkling in the great void above. Hawk Carse On moonless nights he spent hours in contemplation of their beckoning mystery. The Side Of The Angels A Novel In the dusk of the moonless if starry night, lights from windows shone vividly. Shirley The wide, warm summer night closed about them: the dusk was rich with floating dewy perfumes, and golden stars dazzled in the clear, moonless sky. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart There were no signs of camp sentinels and the moonless night did not permit the savages to catch sight of the King who, besides, was screened by the underwood. In Desert and Wilderness It was a moonless night and overcast, and the distant streetlights barely illuminated us. Little Brother There were suspicious vessels at anchor, one moonless night, in a small bay near the Mumbles. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The sky was moonless and he could not get out if he wished. Dwellers in the Hills A filament of flame darted down the dark skies one moonless night and those who saw it believed, at first, that it was a meteor. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 The night was moonless, starless, and of Egyptian darkness. King Philip Makers of History As the faint flush of dawn began to come toward the close of that frosty, moonless November night, the new star was a great white-hot object more brilliant than any other star in the heavens. Raiders of the Universes Singly or in groups of two or three, the men had gone across in boats after sunset, successfully eluding observation, for the night was moonless and very dark. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main One night it chanced a tarn, Secreted high 'mid cold and moonless hills, Bursting its bank down burst. Legends of the Saxon Saints II It was deep moonless night when Alice woke with a start. They of the High Trails By the time supper was over it was night, serene and moonless, yet brilliant with stars. King Philip Makers of History In seconds, the room was choked with a thick, foggy vapor that obscured every object in it as well as the blackest of moonless nights. Raiders Invisible Overhead the low-hanging clouds covered the moonless sky like a hood, and not a star shone through the fleecy thickness to aid in the search for the little girl. The Biography of a Prairie Girl To-night is fortunately moonless; and if I put on white garments and go to the neighborhood of the bay, he will take me for a stork and shoot me dead. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories At first the inside of the tent seemed black as a moonless night to Nancy, and the smell of damp, unwashed bodies made her stomach churn. Shaman He succeeded in lighting not only his house but the whole country-side, for one moonless night his mansion was burned to the ground. The Squirrel Inn It was a moonless night, and the air was chill, but they were certainly nowhere near the polar regions, for there was no trace of snow to be seen anywhere. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 At last a dark moonless night put an end to the irremediable disaster which cost the Roman state so dear. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens The night was moonless and starry, except where a bank of clouds came drifting up from the south-west. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Then anon variegated with moon lit starry nights, blue skies, golden sunsets, deep dark, moonless midnights, all shaded off into soft shadders. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Both are visible on a moonless night, but in bright moonlight the smaller disappears. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' It was a moonless night, and had been a dark one; but it was now close upon morning. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea "Don't forget the velvet-voiced beauty of the dark, moonless night on the Cape Town Hotel verandah!" The Dop Doctor “In the darkness of a moonless night, with men on the qui vive ready to fire at the slightest sound?” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War But Captain Doc had soon made the light his own special care, and until his death, ten years later, the old man never failed to supply this beacon to belated travellers on moonless nights. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales In order to see this number of stars, the night must be moonless, the sky cloudless, and the atmosphere pure. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 It promised to be a dark, moonless night. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Though the night was moonless, Anthony could see that. Anthony Lyveden The night was moonless, and the two stumbled and groped their way down the lane at a pace whose slowness exasperated Rebecca. The Panchronicon In the darkest part of the moonless night Hal walked up and down before the officers' quarters. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army The sun had set, and the twilight passed away, the night was clear and starlight, but moonless, when Luis and his companion left the venta and resumed their progress northwards. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. I did not succeed at all in making a fire; the night was quite dark and moonless, and a fine rain penetrated everything. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The moonless Mars was thought to be an exception to the rule that all the great planets outside Venus were dignified by an attendant retinue of satellites. The Story of the Heavens For some nights the hyænas did not come, and then one moonless night near a dozen came and fought for what was left of the lion. Tales of Space and Time Still further, it is clear that people in general will not care to go out during the darkness of a moonless night, unless obliged to do so. Moon Lore The night passes slowly and silently; one by one the fires are extinguished, and the plain is wrapped in the gloom of a moonless night. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography The running past the batteries was always done at night, moonless nights being chosen whenever it was practicable to select the time of making the trip. Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker "The impervious horrors of a leeward shore" they were doomed to experience during a moonless and starless night. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 The night was moonless, but the bright starlight brought all objects into plain relief against the dark rocks. Omega, the Man What is here said of the new world applies also to the old; for in England a current expression in Huntingdonshire is "a dark Christmas sends a fine harvest": dark meaning moonless. Moon Lore The night was moonless, but there was that soft diffused light in the air invariable in June, except on the cloudiest of evenings. The Motor Pirate On the dark, moonless nights of the 3rd, 4th and 5th of August transports stole silently to anchor off the Cove, and many battalions of Kitchener's Army and batteries of Field Artillery came ashore. The Tale of a Trooper The night, a moonless and very black one, favoured us altogether for the run which, I did not doubt, we had to make against some Government vessel that would follow us. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Night came down moonless and dark save for the light of the stars. Omega, the Man The long southern twilight gradually deepened into a black, moonless night. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 The belt of shrubs and trees was just thick enough to hide a man perfectly on a moonless cloudy night like this. Simon Candles were used; and hearth-fires shone as brightly as on a moonless evening in autumn.... The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Fomalhaut had set, leaving the moonless planet in utter blackness, broken only by the cold gleam of the stars. The Judas Valley The night was clear, starlit but moonless, and the cliff as he reached it looked down upon him with majestic and sullen disdain. The Secret Witness A moonless night was chosen for the expedition, and the advance was made stealthily and swiftly. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds The night was moonless, but there was little cloud, so that there was a glimmer of starlight. The Sundering Flood When, in the darkness of a moonless night, they saw the great boat sailing steadily up the narrow channel they paddled silently toward her, dark specks on the breast of the dark, shining river. Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola The sky was moonless, but for a wonder it was resplendent with stars. The Day of Judgment Another sun has shone upon San Francisco Bay, and again gone down in red gleam over the far-spreading Pacific, leaving the sky of a leaden colour, moonless and starless. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The flickering signals of the British fleet seemed to come nearer as the darkness of the moonless autumn night deepened, and about nine a shadowy mass of sails was seen not far off. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima It was a moonless night, but clear and brilliant with stars. In Mesopotamia Dark, dismal as the moonless sky, Or as a sea whose bed is dry, So sad, to every pleasure dead, They saw the town, disquieted. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse It was a moonless night in June, with lowering clouds and a threat of distant thunder echoing from the far mountains. The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus The party sets out about eight or nine o’clock of a dark, moonless night, and stealthily approaches the cornfield. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers It was a moonless night, and a haze of cloud obscured the stars. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Mars had always been looked upon as one of the moonless planets, though grounds were not wanting for the surmise that probably moons to Mars really existed. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon Chief of the brave who bear the bow, E'en now Ayodhyá, sunk in woe, By thy departure reft of light Is gloomy as the moonless night. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He sat silent, watching star after star shine out of the moonless sky. The Northern Iron A fair and jocund day departed, and suddenly a dark cloud mantled the heavens, and the moonless night was falling dismal and drear. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Her grandmother is deaf with age; A garden of moonless trees Would answer not though she should cry In anguish on her knees. Songs of Childhood It was a moonless night, thick with stars above, very dark on the water. Chance A Tale in Two Parts When low upon the earth was laid The lord whom Vánar tribes obeyed, Dark as a moonless sky no more His land her joyous aspect wore. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The Alert had no sun for a hundred and forty-two days, and the darkness was nearly as deep at noonday as an ordinary moonless night in England. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Beyond this ultimate moment nothing lies But moonless cold and darkness. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence The fires one by one go out, until the plain is wrapt in the gloom of a moonless midnight. The Scalp Hunters Janice was rather glad it was a moonless evening as she walked side by side with her cousin down Hillside Avenue. How Janice Day Won In widowed woe, bereft of thee, The land no more is fair to see: The city, to my aching sight, Is gloomy as a moonless night.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse It was a moonless night and very dark; the air was rather chill, while the roar of the surf sounded louder than usual in the crisp, bracing atmosphere. Edmond Dantès Only two kitchen matches were needed to collect the cords from a big Packard, handsome in the warmth of a moonless summer night. Solomon's Orbit Others argued that they were encased in cement, then taken out to sea in speedboats on moonless nights and jettisoned. In the Control Tower It was by this time in the small hours of a dark, moonless night. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure Atop the dome, a torch provided a beacon to relieve the blackness of moonless nights. The Players I go out into the moonless, starless night, with my eyes still full of the light indoors; and our hands meet blindly before exchanging a pressure. The Choice of Life The car was open and of a tourist type, but even in that obscure light, for the night was moonless, an observer could hardly fail to have noticed a curious indefiniteness in its lines. Danger! and Other Stories The nights were now dark and moonless, and on the third of our stay the lions were exceptionally troublesome. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa The twilight had settled into a night that was moonless, but had that luminosity often seen on clear nights in late autumn. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Starless, moonless darkness showed through the low window, and the candle was burning dimly on the table. Vesty of the Basins The scene they faced now might have been one of their own land viewed on an abnormally bright though moonless evening. The Girl in the Golden Atom After darkness had fallen as heavily as could be expected on a clear, though moonless night, the four scouts set out through the timber toward the Graham cottage. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Owing to its many faint stars it is best seen on a clear moonless night. A Field Book of the Stars Morgan rode away into the moonless night, leaving the town to take care of its own dignity and peace. Trail's End In Quebec a cautious phlegmatic British General sat and waited, keeping, as the moonless nights drew on, his officers ready against surprise. Fort Amity While the train sped through the moonless night, Jean's sharp eyes were trained on the weird, shadowy outlines into which darkness turns the most commonplace objects. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer On a certain bold crag that juts far over a steep wooded mountain slope a red light was seen one moonless night in June. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories It happened that one moonless night two miners, walking back to their homes from Morvah, passed by the base of the Hooting Carn. Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Before him lay the quiet waters of the great China Sea, while back of him loomed the rugged bulk of the mountain, the summit indistinct in the darkness of the moonless night. Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box It was a moonless night, but the sky was clear and spangled with stars. The Call of the Blood The night was dark, moonless, rainy,—a wind which mingled with the roar of the river drowning all sound of marching troops. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom It was dark, the dark grayness of a moonless night. The Mermaid A Love Tale The trespassers would naturally enter by that gap, and on a moonless night would not see the wire fence on top of the wall. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's This was a moonless night, and little enough illumination entered the room from the court. Brood of the Witch-Queen Nan's eyes were drawn in the direction, but her gaze only encountered the moonless night. The Forfeit The night was moonless and clear, and cold as at that altitude they always are. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems It was announced that he would make his entry at night, and that the hour of arrival had been timed for a dark moonless night. Captain Jinks, Hero The spring season of life shall turn into the autumn of death, the bright joy of palace halls give way to moonless dark within the tomb. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá The evening was as yet moonless, the stars alone twinkled in the heavens, and the gentle winds blew plaintively over the tall trees around the mansion. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan It was a moonless night, black with haze, and the great ships moved in silence like gigantic spectres over the sea. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes I saw his lithe figure swing along through the sub-tropical darkness of a moonless summer night. The Lost Valley Even under the stars which crusted a moonless sky, the vast stretches of billowing sand glimmered faintly golden as a phosphorescent sea. The Golden Silence The moonless night made no difference to him. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon It was a moonless night and very dark, with glimpses of stars when the clouds parted. At the Back of the North Wind It was the night of October 20, 1805, a night moonless and black. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes But now, curled in his roll, he was alert to every sound out of the moonless night, finding himself listening—for what he did not know. Star Born The night was moonless, but the myriad stars shone brilliantly through the rarefied atmosphere of that Western region, lighting the trail and making it fairly easy to follow. Captured by the Navajos Then, then was the moonless mid-mirk, and I woke to the day and the deed, The deed that earth shall name not, the day of its bitterest need. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs It was a road that would not be a cheerful one on moonless nights. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry It was a dark, moonless night, only tempered by the reflections of furnace fires among the hills. We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys He could travel under the moonless sky as sure-footed as under broad sunlight. Star Born The great groves of cypresses and pines, of poplars and plane trees, were dark with the shadow of the moonless night. Roads from Rome When I went to my room for the night, I drew back my curtain and looked out into the darkness of a cloudy, moonless night. Medoline Selwyn's Work In the increasing coldness the vapor of their breath, even though the night was dark and moonless, arose in an indistinct cloud, like the smoke of smouldering camp-fires over the tents of a sleeping army. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman The darkness of a moonless night settled down upon her before she had gone three miles, but she would not allow herself to think of fear. Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities The night was moonless; but in the clear nights of Egypt, even without the moon very near details can often be distinguished. Bella Donna A Novel The night was clear but moonless, and the thick-leafed masses of the oaks and hickories rose a wall of black to curtain half the hemisphere of starry sky. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady But how can stars dispel the darkness of a moonless night? The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal When the moonless nights are blackest the best dreams are about; I'll tell you why that should be so and how I found it out. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 His first pilgrimages were by moonlight, but when the moonless nights came he continued his vigils. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe It was a moonless night, a starless night, one of those foggy nights when the air seems thick with humidity. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 A moonless darkness came upon us and we had to walk just behind the carriages, peering at the square yard of road illuminated by candles in our penny lanterns. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Day has come, but the darkness remains; not that of a moonless night, but that of a closed room without lamp or candle. The Wonders of Pompeii A deep gloom hangs around the darkened church, and from out the lofty vaulted roof thousands of lamps hang glimmering like stars upon a moonless sky. Rome in 1860 Westward, the late June twilight deepened into a violet and moonless darkness. A People's Man "The unclouded heavens on a starry and moonless night." The Young Man and the World On moonless nights a small sailing craft would put in along the coast, laden with smuggled Havana cigars. The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep The blackness of the moonless, starless night seems to oppress him. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth The night was moonless and pitchy black, but Grenfell set out at once to look for dogs. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell A chill, moonless, starry night lured me, and I decided to travel. The River and I The moonless night, at ten o'clock, found Van alone at his tent. The Furnace of Gold Then, sharper, "Sciar, Signori, sciar!" as they nearly jostled another gondola, swinging round sharply into a moonless lane of ancient palaces. The Lee Shore Into the darkness of this moonless, starless, sky-beclouded night, you shall soon be driven. Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims The night was moonless but strewn with stars. Corporal Sam and Other Stories A black moonless sky brooded above the dying camp fires. Diane of the Green Van The night was pitch dark—moonless, starless—with a sighing wind and a dully moaning sea. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week "Returned Empty" was the inscription on the wrappings which enfolded the tiny but aristocratic form of a man-child left on the steps of the Foundlings Institution one moonless October night. Love Conquers All Compared with the darkness of it, the other nights, he said, are but as clouds across the sun on a summer's day compared with a moonless midnight in winter. The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary As darkness fell on that moonless night the captain, alarmed at the flight of the Iroquois, posted a careful guard and had his cannon at bow and stern made ready to resist attack. The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war After that tiger among kings shall have, in consequences of his own achievements, ascended to heaven, the earth, O son of Pritha, will look like a moonless night. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The rain beat ceaselessly against the curtained windows; the wild spring wind shrieked through the city streets, icily cold; a bad, black night—starless, moonless. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week She left her home at a moonless midnight, took candle and matches, dressed in her stoutest clothes and walked over North Hill towards Bridport. The Spinners God makes the stars, shaking their firelight out of the blue down into your wondering eyes on a clear moonless night. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel It was a moonless night, but the sky was alive with stars, and now and then one fell. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Another day in sable vesture clad, All drear with new blown pleasures blighted, Comes blindly groping through the twilight sad, As one in moonless mists benighted. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl The night was moonless, yet distinctly luminous, for the stars crowded the sky. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories It was a still, moonless night, and the stars hung low down, like diamonds on a canopy of black velvet. Septimus On the evening of the twenty-sixth they sat on the mahogany settle together, in a moonless night, the lilacs and honeysuckle a-bloom around them. Katrine The evening arrived—clear and mild, but moonless. The Marriage of William Ashe Starless and moonless, hidden in cloud, The night's one flame of pearl. Household Gods As Percy turned, he could see the moonless sky alight with frosty stars, and the dimness of the illumination made the scene even more impressive; but as he turned again, there was a change. Lord of the World The night of August 10th was moonless and dark. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" The sun went down behind the lofty trees; the brief dusk passed, and the little beach showed faintly beneath the stars, great and small, of a moonless night. Sir Mortimer And at night, after supper, Rachel stood on the front steps looking into a wide starry heaven, moonless, cold, and still. Harvest One evening at about seven o'clock, and on a clear but moonless night, I went into the garden in front of my house. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore For these reasons then, the moonless sea midnight was just the time to escape. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The night was moonless, and a thick mantle of clouds obscured the heavens; but the planet Venus was now an evening star, and after attaining a considerable height, we steered towards the west. A Trip to Venus One who has never seen an Alabama river-bottom cornfield has not exhausted nature’s surprises; nor will he know what solitude is until he explores one in a moonless night. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 The night was dark and moonless; and from the state of the tide Sam concluded it was near midnight. Tales of a Traveller You think it is enough to choose a moonless night for you and your companions-in-arms to be seen by no living creature! The Waters of Edera The night was clear, though moonless, but in the gloom of the wood the darkness was deep. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians My life has indeed been a sad one; so sad, so lonely, that no language in my power of utterance can give to the reader a full conception of its moonless darkness. Fifteen Years in Hell Let any one try to go a little way across even the most familiar country on a moonless night, and he will have an experience to remember. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 We were left in the thick gloom of a moonless evening and the peaceful silence of still air. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 It was a still, sweet night of soft airs, and a moonless, starlit sky, and the man was very fond of walking in the dark. Jason Add the gloom of a moonless night, and something more than great natural intelligence and a city education is required to preserve one's knowledge of direction. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians The October night, though dark and moonless, was clear, and the stars were shining in the sky as the little procession started forth. In the Days of Chivalry The night was moonless but starlit, and very clear. The Philanderers The night fell moonless and black, and the enclosing forest made it yet blacker. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories A dark, close, dusty night, he said, and moonless, deserted by every man and woman; a Sabbath night. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story They can only be caught on dark, moonless nights. By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories And the tresses of a moonless and a starless night are fair To the blackness of her raven hair. Poems The night was moonless, and when he looked up he thought he had never seen stars so large and bright, or sky so black. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 The night overhead-was starless and moonless, but every minute the black heaven was split by spurts of lightning, which showed the laboring, dishevelled ship set among great mountains of breaking seas. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle It was a moonless night, and the Passage Corneille, from whence I was to operate, was most usefully dark. Castles in the Air A moonless night—a friendly one; A haze dimmed the shadowy shore As the first lampless boat slid silent on; Hist! and we spake no more; We but pointed, and stilly, to what we saw. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Climbing the last outlying ridge of the Stanavoi range, one dark, moonless evening in November, we found ourselves at the head of a wild ravine leading downward into an extensive open plain. Tent Life in Siberia I can but grope dimly with outstretched hands; sometimes in the outer blackness of a moonless, starless night; sometimes, with strained eyes catching a glimpse of a glimmer in the east. Nancy Late in the night again, when all the stars were out sparkling in a moonless sky, and the household should long have been asleep, the same fancy or fear recurred. Fated to Be Free It was to be led by Angus M'Lachlan, and was to slip over the parapet on a given moonless night, crawl across No Man's Land to within striking distance of the German trench, and wait. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The night was moonless, dark, warm with the inviting softness of late spring that holds out promises of romance. The Flying Legion Her expression was animated, and her great brown eyes danced like twinkling stars on a clear, moonless night. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy The violet scent is sacred Like dreams of angels bright; The hawthorn smells of passion Told in a moonless night. The Wild Knight and Other Poems Her grandmother is deaf with age; A garden of moonless trees Would answer not though she should cry In anguish on her knees. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Paris lost many of its rebels, who will never reappear in the Place Pigalle and the Avenue de Clichy on moonless nights. The Soul of the War A lathering climb it was, laden as they were with heavy rucksacks, in the moonless obscurity. The Flying Legion Nothing was seen, not even a denser shadow in the moonless dark. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel The Romans accordingly waited for moonless nights, and then starting out in darkness and a foreign land that was likewise hostile, they scattered in tremendous fear. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). When midnight o'er the moonless skies, Her shades of mimic death has spread, When mortals sleep, when spectres rise; And nought is wakeful but the dead. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland The night had come, starless and moonless, favorable to the designs of Tandakora, but they felt intense satisfaction, nevertheless. The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods I came to the great shed of glass and girders which is the station, the night being perfectly soundless, moonless, starless, and the hour about eleven. The Purple Cloud He felt as a mariner at midnight on a moonless sea, who suddenly, when the storm is brewing, finds that he has lost his compass and his chart. Minnie's Sacrifice |
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