moonlight

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All the heaped-up sweetness of the whitest, freshest flowers of the spring seemed in my embrace as I kissed her, so soft, so fragrant, so pure; and as the moonlight was the white fire in our blood.

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  1. noun The light reflected from the surface of the moon.
  2. intransitive verb Informal To work at another job, often at night, in addition to one's full-time job.

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  • And I saw also, standing on the corner of the platform in front of him, a soldier with rifle in hand, and on the end of it glistening in the moonlight was a long bayonet! —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
  • The name meant, in Italian, moonlight, but something relative to a circus or carnival would have been more appropriate Mr. Carlos Napolena calling to see Mr. Scimmia," Doc Savage told the clerk His name was not Carlos Napolena, and neither was Monk Mayfair named Mr. Scimmia. Monk Mayfair was Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett Mayfair, a chemist of great ability when he worked at it, which wasn't very often because he liked excitement By golly!" —  143 - Violent Night
  • Coming through the moonlight was a file of savages and burnoosed brown men. —  010 - The Phantom City
  • We drift around in the sun or the moonlight, and when we see a light, chase after it. —  Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
  • Yet the effect of them in the moonlight was as of one great passive monster So was it seen by the Duke, as he stood leaning against the wall, behind Zuleika's table. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
 

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  1. from Middle English monelicht (= Dutch maanlicht = German mondlicht); from moon+ light, n.
 

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