moonshiny

• “‘I don’t want to say anything offensive, but that sort of thing may be very well for crypts and cloisters and all sorts of moonshiny places.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “As I walked between Bolton and Bury it was on a moonshiny night,”

  The Bury New Loom

• “During bright moonshiny nights the Grosbeak sings sweetly, but not loudly.”

  Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life

• “Dese parties wuz always give on moonshiny nights and wuz liked by everybody.”

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2

• “He allus picked bright moonshiny nights for dem big cotton pickin's, and dere warn't nothin 'short 'bout de big eats dat was waitin' for dem”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3

• “On bright moonshiny nights, I would cut wood, fix fences, and sich lak for 'em.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3

• “Walpurgis gathering of birds and beasts of prey, -- foxes, and owls, and crows, and eagles, that come from all the country round on moonshiny nights to crunch the clams and muscles, and pick out the eyes of dead fishes that the storm has thrown on Chelsea Beach?”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859

• “The work on this acre was done on moonshiny nights and holidays.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

• “This is mighty sightly," said Creed, looking about him musingly; "I do love a moonshiny night.”

  Judith of the Cumberlands

• “The poets are thin, moonshiny, meticulous in technique.”

  American Literature

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