starlight
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The moon set; the starlight was after a long, long time succeeded by the dawn of waking birds, and of waking city, too--for up from below rose an ever louder roar like a rising storm.
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- noun The light from the stars.
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- If one of our ships goes from one to another as fast as the starlight, the voyage takes many centuries. — The Urth of the New Sun
- The Martian volcanoes were visible now in starlight, masses of clouds creeping up their long slopes like pale-gray amoebae. — Ilium
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The moon set; the starlight was after a long, long time succeeded by the dawn of waking birds, and of waking city, too--for up from below rose an ever louder roar like a rising storm.
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise -
(C) Airey's experiment proved that the starlight was already coming into the earth at an angle, being carried along by the rotating aether;
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We stand in starlight
— Every Little Light
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/ (stärˈlītˌ)/
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