moon-rays

Through the eastern window — placed opposite to us, that the first beams of the rising sun may every morning gild our giant faces — the moon-rays fall upon the pavement in a stream of light that to my fancy sinks through the cold stone and gushes into the old crypt below.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

Through the eastern window — placed opposite to us, that the first beams of the rising sun may every morning gild our giant faces — the moon-rays fall upon the pavement in a stream of light that to my fancy sinks through the cold stone and gushes into the old crypt below.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

I started; there was so much that this might explain — an unknown element that responded to the moon-rays in opening the moon door; the blue Pool with its weird radioactivity, and the force within it that reacted to the same light stream —

The Moon Pool 2004

And is it not curious that that which comes from the Moon Chamber needs the moon-rays to bring it forth; is it not?

The Moon Pool 2004

"There is no light through the key-hole," said the miller, peeping, "only the moon-rays which lie on the floor, and when I hark with my hand to my ear, I hear no sound but the water splashing."

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs

I started; there was so much that this might explain -- an unknown element that responded to the moon-rays in open-ing the moon door; the blue Pool with its weird radioactivity, and the force within it that reacted to the same light stream --

The Moon Pool 1919

As a projecting pebble in mid-stream blurs the transparent water with a myriad bubbles, so the narrow path of moon-rays, which our glass reveals, cute a swath of visibility straight through the host of birds to our eager eyes.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

And is it not curious that that which comes from the Moon Chamber needs the moon-rays to bring it forth; is it not?

The Moon Pool 1919

And all the time, as though from some opened well of light, the courtyard gleamed and sent out silver fires that dimmed the moon-rays, yet seemed strangely to be a part of them.

The Moon Pool 1919

And is it not curious that that which comes from the Moon Chamber needs the moon-rays to bring it forth; is it not?

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913