The sun blazed on gilded domes and delicate spires, Liberty lifted her steadfast torch, and the Moonbeam turned her proud form toward Lakehurst.
All that afternoon Mr. Hammond and his staff spent at the landing field, where the Moonbeam was being looked over, inch by inch, by her own crew and the German experts as well.
As the Moonbeam gained altitude she was followed by a giant spotlight that held her in a dazzling arc of radiance, up, and up, and up until the ray grew dim and was left behind.
Next came a troupe of Japanese jugglers, who whirled gaily painted barrels, gold chairs and small boys about their heads with an abandon that made Dulcie gasp and the crew of the Moonbeam roar with approval.
The mountains covered a vast space, but the general trend of the range was northeast, the direction that the Moonbeam was gradually following.
I went up there back in Ayre before the Moonbeam was finished.
As the ground crew, resplendent in their natty blues, drew the Moonbeam down to earth, the watchers saw a large group of magnificently uniformed officers waiting to receive them.
When the party from the Moonbeam entered the club, they saw that a large number of very high ranking officials were present.
There were the last compliments to be paid, the last papers to be signed, the last farewells to be spoken, and at twenty minutes of eight the Moonbeam took flight.
Resuming their first course, he held the Moonbeam steady, her nose to the blast.
The crew of theMoonbeam had gone to the landing field, where they were eating much food as the guests of the German crews.
Come from the forest where the beech's screen Bars the fierce moonbeam with its flakes of green; Stay the rude axe that bares the shadowy plains, Stanch the deep wound That dries the maple's veins.
The clock stood, of course, in the corner, a moonbeam floated idly on the floor, and a little mauve mouse came from the hole in the chimney corner and frisked and scampered in the light of the moonbeamupon the floor.
By the way," continued I, in my kindly meant attempt, "it puzzles me exceedingly to conceive how Adderfang and his crew did not pillage the Moonbeam when we were so completely in his power.
And what he saw, and what he heard, was a moonbeam that fell into the dark sea of his mind, and sank therein, and filled it with light for all the days of his life.
I see themoonbeam that is on your breast shining upon the moss behind you!
Tell me quickly about this Moonbeam of whom they are all talking.
They had wandered out into an open field, but when she heard the Nightingale, the Moonbeamturned her head and said: “Surely that is the Nightingale singing.
That evening, as the Sunbeam sat waiting, the Stone watched it eagerly, and when the Moonbeam placed her tiny ladder among the leaves, and slid down it, it listened to all that was said.
When the dawn began to appear, the Moonbeam shivered and trembled.
The Moonbeam only saw his light vanishing, and did not see him.
For a moment the moon’s light was obscured, as the tiny cloud sailed past it; then the little silver ladder fell to earth, broken in two and shrunk away, but the Moonbeam did not heed it.
At first theMoonbeam did not speak, for she did not see the Sunbeam, but she came close to the Nightingale, and kissed it as usual.
But the Nightingale never ceased, and the Moonbeam listened till the tears rose in her eyes and her lips quivered.
It watched the Sunbeams and Moonbeams come down on their ladders, and wondered that none of the birds but the Nightingale thought the Moonbeam beautiful.
Mr. Neefit, as the reader will perhaps remember, had been at the Moonbeam before.
The receipt of the telegram at the Moonbeam had affected Ralph, who was now in truth the Squire, with absolute awe.
On the following day Ralph the heir went across the country to the Moonbeam in Buckinghamshire.
At twenty-three he began his career at the Moonbeam with two horses,--and from that day to this hunting had been the chief aim of his life.
Three days after the receipt of his letter, when he rode into the Moonbeam yard on his return from hunting, there was Mr. Neefit waiting to receive him.
Moonbeam from a time beyond which the memory of Mr. Horsball's present customers went not.
Since that he had justified the four horses which still remained at the Moonbeam by the alleged fact that horses were drugs in April, but would be pearls of price in November.
On the occasion of his visit to the Moonbeam early in the hunting season he had spoken out very freely among the sportsmen there assembled; and from that time all reticence respecting his daughter seemed to have been abandoned.
The distinction with which he was welcomed by everybody at the Moonbeammust have been very gratifying to him.
He would keep his establishment at the Moonbeam for this winter.
In the meantime he could see a little cub-hunting, and live at the Moonbeam for a week at any rate as cheaply as he could in London.
As to Mr. Horsball, one might have thought from his manner that he hoped to engage his customer to remain at the Moonbeam for the rest of his life.
She suggested this, not from any knowledge in her possession, but because Ralph was always believed to go to the Moonbeam when he left town.
And as she enter'd the cavern wide, The moonbeam gleamed pale, And she saw a snake on the craggy rock, It clung by its slimy tail.
Mary, awake, From thy dark house arise, and bless his sight On the pale moonbeam gliding.
But a vision came to his slumber Beautiful as before, Floating in with the moonbeam Gliding over the floor.
It floated in with the moonbeam And stood beside his bed, Wonderful, white, and gracious, And this was the word it said.
When he opened his eyes he sat up, and so the moonbeam fell into the two white cups of his tiny hands.
That moonbeam falling on the letters had raised Messenia before him, and its struggle against the Spartan oppression.
I search in vain among the sere and yellow leaves of memory, whether it was ever in me to suck the end of a moonbeam in place of a cigar.
Gaunt shadows crouch by tree and scaur, Like shaggy Satyrs waiting for The moonbeam Nymphs, the Dryads white, That take with loveliness the night, And glorify it with their love.
In through the window a moonbeam comes, Little gold moonbeam with misty wings.
The moonbeam fell brightly upon Ducie Bower, and the illumined salon contrasted effectively with the natural splendour of the exterior scene.
She had no light but a straggling moonbeam revealed sufficient.
Bring him a moonbeam and bring him a star, Then twinkily, winkily, fly away far.
Then I whispered along a moonbeam That silvered the grass so clear, "Oh!
In the air Nowhere Was a moonbeam bare; Larger and nearer the shy stars shone: Sure and certain the Moon was gone!
Goethe's: I think of thee when the bright sunlight shimmers Across the sea; When the clear fountain in the moonbeam glimmers I think of thee.
He thinks of her When the bright sunlight shimmers Across the sea, When the clear fountain in the moonbeam glimmers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moonbeam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
