moonlit

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Beyond, in the moonlit waste, curlews wailing sweetly; behind, a piano barely audible from the humming house What's the matter?"

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  • But the night was warm and moonlit, and the hills beckoned invitingly. —  Longing
  • The night was moonlit, the moist air smelled of fallen cypress needles Clio danced among the tombs and the poplars, flinging her body high into the air above Morir's bullets as they ricocheted off the stacked marble sarcophagi. —  Asimov's SF, July 2007
  • In doing so he showed his aquiline profile; and Cornelius recalled the moonlit terrace of the Brassfields' country house It's he The hired car set out for New York; and behind it, all the way, went the blue runabout CHAPTER XLVII She entered her sitting room, locked the door, threw herself upon the couch. —  Sacrifice
  • The night was clear and moonlit, although a heavy fog towards daybreak prolonged the period of secrecy which shrouded the retreat. —  The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence
  • There were minutes--moonlit minutes, in the patio, when the birds were hushed, and the scent of flowers heavy, and the voices of the older ones stole from some lighted room like a soft, human obligato to the melody of the night--minutes when he felt that to his "I love you!" —  The Wild Olive
 

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