On a dark, moonless night at sea one literally cannot see his hand before his face.
A Crack Shot It was a dark, starless, moonless night.
It is a moonless night, and so far the luck is with you.
The third night of the Marco Four's landfall on the moonless Altarian planet was a repetition of the two before it, a nine-hour intermission of drowsy, pastoral peace.
It was dark outside already, the close, soft night of a moonless tropical world whose moist atmosphere absorbed even starlight.
It has long been observed that avalanches and landslips occur most frequently about midnight, and especially on moonless midnights, when the sun and moon are in conjunction at the nadir.
With such a following, and a moonless night in his favour, Dick would have been nothing loth to lay a wager that he would cross the Southern Border, and take Lord Scrope by the beard.
The nights are moonless just now, though they be something short; the droves should be coming in pretty fast from Cumberland.
Celestial truth Is the food of youth; But the music was dark as a moonless night.
It was a moonless night, and had been a dark one; but it was now close upon morning.
She considered what must follow the rising of another sun, and she longed that she might wander and suffer here, through a moonless night, for evermore.
Then winked out the farm from twin dormer windows--a thing of moorstone colour, yet splashed as to the lintel-post with raw whitewash, so that it should be seen in the darkness of moonless nights.
A sorry day moved into evening, and when evening became an approach to moonless dark, this day of retreat was in Paul's mind a passage of distorted images, true or false.
It was a moonless night, thick with stars above, very dark on the water.
It happened that one moonless night two miners, walking back to their homes from Morvah, passed by the base of the Hooting Carn.
The eyes were deep-set, large and soft, and dark as the sky of a moonless night, yet shining in the firelight with a strange magnetic glint that seemed to fasten Tremayne's gaze and hold it at will.
There is a class of astronomers known as comet-hunters, and they pass hours upon hours of clear, sparkling, moonless nights in search for comets.
With the opera-glass, if you are looking in a clear and moonless night, you will see it as a curious nebulous speck.
It is situated a little distance northwest of the star Eta, and is visible to the naked eye, on a clear, moonless night, as a nebulous speck.
London was anxious, fevered, and turbulent, that hot, moonless August night.
A cloudy moonless night, with a gusty wind which now and then swept the tops of the forest trees, causing the leaves to surge like a summer sea.
It was a moonless night, according to the Vaudoux fashion; and I knew from what I had already read in West Indian books that the orgies would not commence till midnight.
He corrected the feebleness, and at the same time threw a practical coachman's glance on peculiarities of the road, requiring some knowledge of it if traversed backward at a whipping pace on a moonless night.
When low upon the earth was laid The lord whom Vánar tribes obeyed, Dark as a moonless sky no more His land her joyous aspect wore.
In widowed woe, bereft of thee, The land no more is fair to see: The city, to my aching sight, Is gloomy as a moonless night.
It was now completely dark, a moonless night spangled with stars.
As soon as the darkness of this moonless night passed away, the high festival of the spring equinox and the harvest celebration would begin.
Amid the horrors of the battle-field in the moonless night joy as bright as day entered his heart and with the low exclamation: "God and my people!
How wonderful in its awe-inspiring realism is the story of Franco's journey across the mountains, in the darkness of a moonless night!
X It was my habit to go out at night for a walk through Amiens before going to bed, and generally turned river-ward, for even on moonless nights there was always a luminance over the water and one could see to walk along the quayside.
XI The night in Amiens was dark and sinister when rain fell heavily out of a moonless sky.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moonless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
