I have read a good deal about "moonlight on the waters;" but I never was so near its dancing beams before.
Tis night--and, save the waterfall That murmurs through the stony vale, No sound is near the castle wall On which the moonlight falls so pale!
We were out here on the hill in the moonlight and I could see Miss Ainslie's house and hear the surf behind the cliff.
Miss Ainslie went to the gate with them, her lavender scented gown rustling softly as she walked, and the moonlight making new beauty of the amethysts and pearls entwined in her hair.
Now and then themoonlight shone full upon Miss Ainslie's face, touching her hair as if with loving tenderness and giving her an unearthly beauty.
But this hope vanished as he approached the other shore, and saw by the moonlight several of the gaunt creatures awaiting him on that side.
By this time it was becoming quite dark, the moonlight penetrating the forest only along the roadway and in occasional patches among the trees on either side.
He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon.
To the amazement of every one, nothing was to be seen, though it was moonlight, and moonlight so bright that it aroused attention.
By the soft moonlight that lit strange gleams across the country without, Felipe could dimly see his father's body, a vague white thing among the shadows.
At this moment a ray of moonlight from beyond the Falberg fell on the window.
Moonlight is gone, and darkness reigns E'en in the realms 'above the clouds,' Ah!
The moonlight streamed through the crevices of the broken wall.
Genji, as he withdrew to a corner where the moonlight did not reach.
It happened that one inviting moonlight evening in October, I was driving out from home on my way to a certain Dainagon.
He then added, "Let us look out on the moonlight together.
Go to it then, boss; if anybody c'n make a safe landin' by moonlight it's jest you!
Then they hurried over to the building, which they could now see, thanks to both the moonlight and the brilliance of the blaze, must be some kind of a ranch house.
Now came the altogether sensational affair of the moonlight skating-race on the mill-pond, and something had got to be done.
There'll be the biggest bonfires you ever saw, and there'll be good moonlight too.
One of the men had ridden forward to give notice of their approach, and soon in the flickering moonlight the gray walls of an ancient mill, now greatly fallen to decay, became visible to the travellers' eyes.
Petronella pointed to the circular slab lying wet and sparkling in the moonlight upon the sward beside the well.
The gipsy had left him, gliding away in the moonlight like a veritable shadow; and Cuthbert, left alone in the dim cave, buried his face in his hands and sank into a deep reverie.
A ray of moonlight striking down upon his face showed it to be deadly white.
Now and again a ray of moonlight glinted through these ragged masses, but for the rest it was profoundly dark in the narrow streets, and only a little lighter on the open river.
But many evening rambles had been taken by the youth, who panted for the freedom of the forest, to which he was so well used; and Kate delighted in any excuse for a moonlight stroll.
Even in the moonlight he could see the sudden flush that dyed her cheek and neck at the question.
Erstwhile thou wert like a creature of moonlight and vapour; a breath seemed as though it would blow thee away.
His gray face looked ghastly in the dimmoonlight which began to struggle through the fog wreaths.
Isn't it lovely, the moonlight on the trees covered with snow?
The nurse would have told Belinda the old tales of fairies who danced by moonlight on rings in the greensward, and dropped silver coins into the shoes of tidy little maids.
When the diamonds flashed in the moonlight she uttered a choking cry and her lips trembled pitifully.
Small as the type was in which many of the towns were shown, the bright moonlight would have permitted the names to be read.
He muttered; "'Twas nor fay nor ghost I met upon the moonlight wold, But living man of earthly mould.
Cold moonlight falls on silent towers; The young ghosts walk with the old; But Oxford dreams of the dawn of May And her heart is free and bold.
The five men in the moonlight Chat, joke, or gaze apart.
The moonlightwas in the room, and Pauline's face looked ghastly, but it looked beautiful also.
I don't feel riotous; and, oh, how white the moonlight is making Briar look!
And again the thing crept, or glided, not even a slipping purr, noiseless, just a drifting shadow; only where a ribbon of moonlight from between a lotus and a leaf picked it out was the brown thing of evil marked against the marble.
Bootea could do that," and in her small hand there gleamed in themoonlight the sheen of her dagger blade.
Barlow turned her face up, and the moonlight showed vagrant pearls that lay against the olive cheeks, now tinted like the petals of a rose.
The moonlight fell full upon the face of the horseman, its light making still whiter the face of Captain Barlow.
The slim arms that gripped Barlow in a new tightening trembled, the face that fled from the betraying moonlight was buried against his tunic, and the warm body quivered from sobs.
Ajeet heard the beat of iron-shod hoofs upon the road, and seeing in the moonlight the two riders knew from the manner they sat the saddles that they were of the Englay service; when he called to them they heeded him not.
Then from the shimmer of moonlight thrust the white form of a big Turcoman horse that was thrown almost to his haunches, his breast striking the back of the decoit.
The moon-glade on the sea enriching by contrast the blackness of the rocky headland, will inspire the musician to write, not a moonlight sonata, for true music is free from sensuous symbolism, but a pure rhythm of sound.
The elements of a sunset, or a moonlight scene with clear tones and silhouetted outlines, are simple enough for the untrained mind to appreciate.
One sultry evening, as we strolled together on the balcony, I was seized with a sudden longing to hear Agnes sing, and bid Effie come with me for a moonlight voyage down the river.
The moonlight turned the waves to silver, and in its magic rays the face of my first love grew young again.
When the moonlight began to pale, and the stars were dying out one by one, the friends left their lily-raft, plunged into the flood, and the little soul went back reluctantly to her dark prison.
The milk-white billows of the torrent that rushed down from this height rolled in the moonlight like silvery tresses down from the rock's giant head.
The last bolt was loosed, the heavy gate opened, and the moonlight streamed in freely over the treasures which were here displayed in splendid piles.
The moonlight glided through the open windows and fell on the forms of the defenceless sleepers: the deep breathing of the warriors and the murmur of the waves were the only sounds that the ear could distinguish.
The moonlight broke through the overhanging bushes and the lofty rocks overhead, and made its way down into the ravine.
When the vesper bell of the forest cloister began to sound, it was already dark; the moonlight gleamed on the path, and Gela walked with her lover as far as the high-road, supported by his arm.
She looked more closely, and recognised in the clear moonlight the bloody corpse of her noble father.
Yes," she said; but the smile she turned upon him was meaningless, and as cold as moonlightin snow.
Laura said; for all the world, so lately a howling wilderness, was moonlight and couleur de rose to her now, with plain Val Blake standing by her side.
As to Laura, any gatepost or white birch tree in the moonlight would pass for a ghost with her.
Mr. Blake, as I said, walked home in the moonlight alone, and astounded the whole Blair family by the unearthly tidings.
For there before him, with only the moonlight shadow of her former loveliness left, sat and sang, not the dead, but the living, Nathalie Marsh!
The moonlight no longer shone in straight through the open embrasures, and there was a dim twilight in the corridor.
With her hands out before her, she went lightly away from the windows to the outer side of the broad terrace, and cowered down by the balustrade as she ran against it, not knowing whether she was in the moonlight or the shade.
In a moment she must see his gaunt figure, and the moonlightwould be white on his short grey beard.
As soon as it was over, it began again, with little change, save that it grew more distinct, till she could see Don John's white face in the moonlight as he lay dead on the pavement of the corridor.
Similarly Breton peasants are reported to believe that women or girls who expose their persons to the moonlight may be impregnated by it and give birth to monsters.
But she soon began to take every chance of getting away from her nurses and enjoying her moonlight alone.
They were very dim, for themoonlight was not strong enough for the colours, and he had enough to do with his eyes trying to make out their shapes.
Of course this must be where the gracious lady who loved the moonlight lived.
Well, I lay down upon the grass in the moonlight without thinking how I was to get out again.
It must be some strange being of the wood--a nymph whom the moonlight and the warm dusky air had enticed from her tree.
We shall make a little journey together, in fact, we shall start earlier, and as the moon will be later, we shall have a little moonlight all the way.
A huge Tom-cat flushed with many victories came crawling up to where he fed one moonlight night.
The moonlight showed hundreds and hundreds of graves, and in each one there must be either a man, or a woman, or a child; and each one had had their share of pain and sorrow.
They had sat in the twilight and young moonlightall the evening.
His curtain was up, and the moonlight lay on his bed.
Charlotte's fair head gleamed out abruptly in the moonlight like a pale flower, but the folds of her mottled purple skirt were as vaguely dark as the foliage on the lilac-bush beside her.
In the moonlight it was the shadowy edifice built of a dream.
All by himself in the white moonlight and the keen night air he climbed the long hill, and slid down over and over.
He looked at Ephraim standing there in the moonlightalmost as if he were a spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moonlight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
