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  • It fits ye better than all that moon-shine about bankin 'an' Trinity, I'll say that for it!

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • You can bet there was no tequila, beer or even moon-shine either, but they were great gatherings, and oh, the food!

    November in Talpa: month-long celebrations 2006

  • All nature around him slept in calm moon-shine or in deep shadow.

    The Talisman 2008

  • You can bet there was no tequila, beer or even moon-shine either, but they were great gatherings, and oh, the food!

    November in Talpa: month-long celebrations 2006

  • If a grown man does not like eating and drinking and exercise, if he is not something positive in his tastes, it means he has a feeble body and should have some medicine; but children may be pure spirits, if they will, and take their enjoyment in a world of moon-shine.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • I cherished hope, it is true; but it vanished, when I beheld my person reflected in water, or my shadow in the moon-shine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • I cherished hope, it is true; but it vanished, when I beheld my person reflected in water, or my shadow in the moon-shine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • The road winding round the base of a mountain, they now came within view of the castle, which was shewn in the perspective of the valley by a gleam of moon-shine, and then vanished in shade; while even a transient view of it had awakened the poignancy of

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • I cherished hope, it is true; but it vanished, when I beheld my person reflected in water, or my shadow in the moon-shine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • It fits ye better than all that moon-shine about bankin 'an' Trinity, I'll say that for it!

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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