How To Use Moonlit In A Sentence
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He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
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Instead of looking up at an empty balcony, audiences can instead see a fake ceiling with a picture of trees reaching up to a moonlit cloudy night.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
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Tiptoe through the garden for a moonlit soak in the hot tub or simply cuddle up by the fire in your room.
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Those of you who work for themselves have spent many moonlit hours calculating your precise incomes and expenditures.
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One moonlit evening she heard an old gondoliere challenge a younger one to alternate with him the stanzas of the Gerusalemme.
Mrs Shelley
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Setting out at dawn with a formidable supply of beer and rum, they would fish all day then return under moonlit skies to dine and drink jugs of Rioja wine in local Spanish restaurants.
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From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more.
Miscellanies
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Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists.
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide
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Billy thinks that maybe on moonlit nights, Old Dan will be able to hear the baying of hunting hounds.
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Meanwhile, nearly a calm tries the patience and wastes time; yet is the moonlit sea like a vast plain studded with glow-worms; and the noonday sea like lapis lazuli, flecked with silver.
Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,
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Crossing it on a moonlit winter's night lifted the heart, though that was often the trouble with Oxford - the architecture outsoared one's feelings, the sublime not always easy to match.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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And then, one moonlit night, a small boat draws up at the jetty beside the inn.
Times, Sunday Times
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She trembled with fear as she went along the moonlit passages.
Wives and Daughters
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Eton waived fees for his last two years; he and his father lived in tiny flats, doing moonlit flits to avoid rent arrears.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lavender is perfect for a summer afternoon, but a moonlit evening calls for the heady scent of gardenia or tuberose.
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The Concertante pastorale from 1951 sounds moonlit.
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It was a cold moonlit night.
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I was walking by the river one beautiful moonlit night.
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On a clear moonlit night, the wood becomes a negative image of its daytime form and is eerily beautiful.
Times, Sunday Times
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This consistently upbeat catalogue song lists those relatively ordinary phenomena which exhilarate and hearten Maria, from raindrops on roses to doorbells and sleighbells to wild geese on moonlit flight.
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His miraculous paintings have an undescribable moonlit quality that evokes both day and night, or a dream or memory.
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It doesn't get much better than standing on a moonlit beach looking through a telescope at the rings around Saturn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
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But something told Morano that in this fight the stranger was master and that along that pale-blue, moonlit, unknown sword lurked a sure death for Rodriguez.
Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley
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Onward it came across the moonlit strip of grassy plain and the soft light falling upon it revealed a plump body clothed in a coat of black fur with white stripes while above, like a silvery halo, waved a bushy, plume-like tail.
The Black Phantom
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They gave us a nice, candlelit table overlooking a lagoon adjacent to a moonlit bay there in Hawaii.
Christianity Today
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Caitlin slowly turned away from his gaze and looked out at the gently breaking waves on the moonlit beach below.
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We ran up and down the moonlit beach all night.
Times, Sunday Times
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She turned to him, and held his face on their moonlit pillow.
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I watch the spreading ripples of her moonlit eyes, hypnotized by the suede kiss of her insatiableness. the lady of the lake presses herself against the reaching shelf of a sandy mouth reabsorbing the tiny trembling pools of pleasures glistening frenzy. and in my swimming wake there is an unravelling scar upon the surface, barely visible if only for an instance metaphor for the finite ness of my life and perhaps that is why
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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It was a dark clear moonlit sky.
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Turning from the still, moonlit sheet, the silent reeds, the clear mimicker in the slumbrous wood, the two wayfarers plunged into the darkness beneath the spreading branches of the oak-trees.
Audrey
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One thing was evident over and above the beauty of the moonlit country through which we were rushing at a good pace, and that was the remarkable improvement in Italian railroading since my last visit to Italy a dozen years before.
The World Decision
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They turn out not to be French spies but disaffected Romantic poets out on moonlit walks.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a cold moonlit night.
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I crept downstairs into the dim moonlit glow of the kitchen and kenned Stella to the top of the cabinets.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
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It is certain that on moonlit nights the man-of-war bird may be seen for hours floating far above the sea.
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Lie on a white sand beach soaking up the sun during the day and go for long moonlit walks along the oceans edge at night.
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One moonlit evening she heard an old gondoliere challenge a younger one to alternate with him the stanzas of the _Gerusalemme_.
Mrs. Shelley
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Palmer was an archetypal English visionary landscapist, and his paintings, drawings and etchings of moonlit wheatfields and flocks of sheep influenced later artists, among them Graham Sutherland and Lucian Freud.
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the moonlit landscape
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Palmer was an archetypal English visionary landscapist, and his paintings, drawings and etchings of moonlit wheatfields and flocks of sheep influenced several later artists, among them Graham Sutherland and Lucian Freud.
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On moonlit nights there may be no activity at all.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sun setting in the far north west went down in a blaze of red and blended so gently into a moonlit night that it seemed as if it hadn't set at all.
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Richmond This unusual sight in the night sky is a moonlit rainbow.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sat by the water, staring at his reflecting in the moonlit dappled water.
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Postbridge itself was in a little hollow near a river, but the back of this inn faced out over the moor, and the moor was a place transformed, a stark landscape of gentle moonlit hills punctuated by patches of black rock or hollows, quiescent and motionless and unreal.
The Moor
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A fleeting video image of a woman dressed in white and moving through moonlit trees cast a spell of love and mystery.
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Late that evening, when the household supposed him to be in bed, the boy crept down through the moonlit garden to the dinghy which Billy had left on its frape under the cliff.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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It's still stranger to imagine legions of English noctambulists marching into moonlit fields to chant Dryden and Pope; but the implication of Wordsworth's scenario is that anyone undertaking the experiment would soon see the superiority of the night sky to the painted firmament of Augustan poetry.
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Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes.
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She trembled with fear as she went along the moonlit passages.
Wives and Daughters
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If you liked Waldwinkel, you’ll love Wenn die Äpfel reif sind (When the Apples Are Ripe), “a humorous tale of a lovers’ moonlit rendezvous, interrupted by a boy stealing apples.”
Theodor Storm
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The stage lighting gives the effect of a moonlIt'scene.
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Essentially, the larva is able to orient itself using the shine from a moonlit night.
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The components of Friedrich's seascapes are here in a fresh guise: figures gazing at a moonlit sea from rocky shallows at its edge.
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James stopped and stood looking out toward the ocean with its moonlit waves crashing against the shore.
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He leaps at the trees and hoofs through the bracken, eyes wide in despair; his moonlit pelt spattered by mud and debris as hand-echoed huntcalls shiver the air.
The Rik Files
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The other three trucks followed him out of the wood and up the highway, heading north on the moonlit highway.
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Almost no light seeped through the grilles above her, making little ripply moonlit patches on the rainwater river.
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My mind began to slow down, to empty itself in the moonlit snowscape, and when it did I felt a great sadness take over.
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I have long since given up cigarettes again, apart from a very occasional rollie, but I still miss standing outside on the cold moonlit nights, or maybe I miss my son's babyhood.
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Who says a holiday has to have moonlit romantic walks and lobster for two.
The Sun
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The sun setting in the far north west went down in a blaze of red and blended so gently into a moonlit night that it seemed as if it hadn't set at all.
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The focus of his attention shifted abruptly to the moonlit scene before him.
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The stage lighting gives the effect of a moonlit scene.
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On a fine moonlit night it was grand to be up aloft.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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I stood on the crest of a hill half a kilometer from the moonlit water, with the city lights in the distance.
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The activities continue even at night with moonlit campfire tales by a Maldivan storyteller or guided stargazing.
TravelDailyNews.com
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Only just in time, however, for the next instant the moonlit slope beneath the _kainga_ was alive with Maoris -- men, women, and children -- shouting and rushing about in a state of tremendous excitement.
Adventures in Many Lands
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Talking to reporters, Dennis Hof of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch said, "Harry Reid will have to pry the cathouse keys from my cold, dead hands.
Harry Reid, prostitution and crickets
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A third depicts the Tyne Bridge on a moonlit night.
Times, Sunday Times
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The allure of the moonlit swimming pool proved too much for him.
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The silent, moonlit night peered in through the blindless windows, through one of which was passed a wire.
Tales of the Wilderness
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Dinner here, followed by a moonlit walk back to your bungalow with the surf breaking below your feet is not quickly forgotten.
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He set off at a slow walk, through the empty moonlit streets, an eerie quietness surrounding them.
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She thinks of herself: a night heron winging its way across the waters, across the moonlit ria of life.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Back at my cottage, sweeping the path, my mind raced furiously over the sight of the aged lady in that moonlit room.
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Girlfriend: (strolling on a moonlit beach) Do you love me, darling?
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It was a beautiful moonlit night, and before we went home we walked down to the Ham Bridge across the river.
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Hawksmouth's mayor, Dwight Greville, arrived first, his horse picking its way along the moonlit path.
MY FAVORITE BRIDE
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He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
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Cal was given a room where the previous occupant had performed a mysterious moonlit flit.
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She could see the moonlit water outside her porthole and hear the footsteps and orders called on the deck as the ship was preparing to set sail.
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The allure of the moonlit swimming pool proved too much for him.
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But by verbing the noun "friend," making friends things you collect in grosses rather than whittle slowly in a moonlit workshop, it seems to render ironic the whole concept of friendship.
Facebook, the social network? A Harvard perspective
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I was sitting beside the driver on a cart, and suddenly, along the moonlit trackway, we saw a figure walking before us.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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From the dark shadows of the ballium, they passed into the moonlit inner court.
The Outlaw of Torn
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Before, we used to sleep on the beach on moonlit nights.
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Grimshaw, who is most famous for his moonlit townscapes, was born in Leeds in 1836 and began painting while working as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway.
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On a moonlit winter evening, as the shore approaches, the town lays itself out beneath an electric halo, the Church of Saint-Joseph lifting its lighthouse-like campanile majestically behind.
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You can find more sophisticated dining at Café Diva, at the base of the mountain, or take a chairlift and then a moonlit snowshoe tour to sup at Ragnar's, a Norwegian restaurant at an elevation of 9,325 feet.
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With its moonlit beams and gentle currents, Adventure is an addictive album, deftly illustrating that great emotional strength can be wrought from an attitude of restraint and levity.
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Top models sipped champagne and danced on a moonlit terrace overlooking the sea.
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Hawksmouth's mayor, Dwight Greville, arrived first, his horse picking its way along the moonlit path.
MY FAVORITE BRIDE
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The moonlit walks will run, weather permitting, every Saturday until October.
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On an unclouded summer night, if you lie on the moonlit beach and listen carefully, you can hear a symphony of nature mixed from the sound of waves raking the shingle and the murmuring wind.
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She walks to a moonlit field where a small lake glistens beneath the quarter moon.
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On a moonlit June night, members of Doc's team sit on three skiffs in the lagoon's North Sound, waiting to trap the young sharks in nets.
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He walked along the moonlit paths in silence, observing in silence the tents and makeshift buildings that housed the slumbering villagers.
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The ferryman steered his craft across the moonlit Nile.
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The lovestruck pair recited poetry to each other in moonlit Persian gardens.
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We relished our moonlit beach walks and the endless hours spent serving the villagers together.
Christianity Today
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Fancy taking your love for a moonlit swim in the warm waters of the Caribbean, or exploring some of the island's most beautiful coral reefs hand in hand?
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He is on his way to your place, right now: expect strumming and moonlit serenades outside bedroom windows.
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As he drew near it, on the moonlit flags of the old street he saw an object shining: his feet touched it, he picked it up; it was a little bag of golden chainwork with a gold snap; he opened it; he saw it was full of coins — such coins as he had never seen in his life, except in little bowls in money-changers 'windows.
The Little Thief
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Nick gaped at me, a goofy look of astonishment and happiness twisting his moonlit features.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
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Long columns of vehicles were seen snaking through the moonlit desert towards the border, after repeated salvoes that lit up the horizon with flashes of fire.
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Devin's fair and aquiline features were highlighted silver in the moonlit night.
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Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes.
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The moonlit night was cool, almost chill, clear, spangled with stars, and no longer soaked with rain.
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Days of delicious dreaming were these, -- days of roaming on the emerald green turf under the stately and odorous pines, listening to the dash of the waterfalls, or watching the crimson sunset burning redly through the darkness of the branches, -- and in the moonlit evenings sitting under the trees to hear the entrancing music of a Hungarian string-band, which played divine and voluptuous melodies of the land, -- "lieder" and
Thelma
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Peering into the crate, Richard saw only darkness, as if the box were full of ink, but then something glinted silver, and — as if his eyes were adjusting to a moonlit night, instead of midafternoon sun — he saw the great silver crescent of an axehead, nestled among styrofoam packing peanuts that were, inexplicably, black instead of white.
PodCastle » 2009 » December
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The stage lighting gives the effect of a moonlIt'scene.
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It begins one snowy, moonlit Christmas Eve somewhere in America.
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She trembled with fear as she went along the moonlit passages.
Wives and Daughters
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They began to walk through the moonlit night and stayed completely silent.
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When they reappeared, they were in the moonlit shadow of a tall, aged tree whose limbs were full and bright in the moonlight.
