moonshine

• She would die happy, when her time came, if she could see them in their own home, bound by the most sacred, the most indissoluble of ties--bound together until death should part them She fell asleep with a heart full of thankfulness to God for his mercies A quite different view of the matter was taken by other members of the Poe connection in Baltimore--particularly the men, who positively refused to regard the love affair as anything more than sentimental nonsense--"moonshine"--they called it, which would be as fleeting as it was foolish. —  The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
• Everywhere the heavens were faintly powdered with stardust, but even the planets seemed pale and ineffectual beside the splendour of the moon The garden was drenched in moonshine--moonshine that silvered the unmown grass-plots, and converted the white rose-bushes into squat-figured wraiths, and tinged the red ones with dim purple hues. —  The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
• Possession of the moonshine is a Class 1 misdemeanor, the most serious kind of misdemeanor. —  CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News
• They will make moonshine -- some of them will -- and may hide a counterfeiter, but they don't steal children! " —  The Boy Scout Camera Club, or, the Confession of a Photograph
• The sands were changed to a whirl of green moonshine, the air was thunder. —  In the Days of the Comet

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