Chapter VII Waiting for Moonrise For upward of two hours Longstreet and Helen were at the store, making their purchases.
Gone like the Indian wizard's yell And fire-dance round the magic rock, Forgotten like the Druid's spell At moonrise by his holy oak!
Flamed the red radiance of a sky, set all afire beyond, Slowly o'er the eastern sea-bluffs a milder glory shone, And the sunset and the moonrise were mingled into one!
A small oil-lamp had been lit, and through the open windows afterglow and moonrise streamed in to mingle with its light.
But there was a faint moonrise struggling through the mist in which the little town and countryside were shrouded.
The evening twilight is made up partly of sunset fading over Thrasymene and Tuscany; partly of moonrise from the mountains of Gubbio and the passes toward Ancona.
Soon the sunlight was gone, and moonrise came to close the day, as we rolled onward to Sarzana, through arundo donax and vine-girdled olive trees and villages, where contadini lounged upon the bridges.
Then, to Landless, "With the moonrise we drop down the river--from out your sight forever.
They have told me that at moonrise we leave this place--and you.
There is a moonrise view that would make you speechless with ecstasy.
We've got to send word that Unc' Jep will meet him at moonrise and talk to him.
And I'll have a message got to Bonbright that Jephthah Turrentine wants to see and talk with him out at Todd's corner at moonrise a-Monday night.
Hour after hour I waited, and still it raged; the time for moonrise was long since past, though no gleam of its waning light could break through the whirling pall around me.
So I seek the nearest, and if water is there, by moonrise I will be here again.
She knew it was the merest hypocrisy to make believe that the climax of that interview at Riverfordhook, where there were the moonrise and things, did not constitute a pledge on the part of both.
Over the lonely prairie So wan, the white moonrise grows; From out of the North a chill wind rides That spins the ash on the black hillsides And, fading, an ember glows.
But wait to-night for the moonrise white; Perchance ye may see them tread The lost trail, the ghost trail, The trail of the gallant dead.
It had occurred to her that she had never seen moonrise in the desert.
Young simpletons who, twenty years ago, would have been writing vapid magazine verses about moonrise and roses have discovered that they have only to become incoherent, incomprehensible, and unmetrical to be taken seriously.
It is cutting away the very roots of poetry; it is revolting against nature because it is natural, against sunshine because it is bright, or mountains because they are high, or moonrise because it is mysterious.
Our gunner in the turret told me that two guns are to be moved back before moonrise into the bastions they were taken from.
Neither sunset nor moonrisequite banished the dreamy blue light on these rolling lands around the head-waters of the Hudson.
Mr. Gorvane's offer to buy the Moonrise Motel wasn't the only offer we received.
Sure enough, he had lit up the "Moonrise Motel" part of the sign.
In the morning we drove into the business district of Banning, about a mile from the Moonrise Motel, and went into Pillyer's cafe, for breakfast.
Why, I'll bet a horned toad the Moonrise takes in two thousand a month.
It was a warm night, and after I had seen Mrs. Bradley to her door I drove back toward the Moonrise Motel.
Grant drove slowly as the Moonrise Motel came into view, and I looked wistfully out the window.
It was a beautiful morning, clear and sunny--the kind of weather that made people stream to the beaches, avoiding the desert and Palm Springs and the Moonrise Motel.
It has 'Moonrise Motel' stamped on the edges somewhere," I said.
It was exactly a month after we had first seen the Moonrise that we left the children with Grandma and took another trip to Banning.
As long as we have been at the Moonrise Motel, I don't believe Grant has eaten one evening meal without having to get up and rent a cabin or talk to someone, while the food on his plate loses its heat and its savor.
In front of the motel is a big green and red neon sign which says "Moonrise Motel.
I pressed the switch, turning the "Moonrise Motel" sign on and off several times rapidly.
At least ninety percent of the wrecks that occurred in Banning happened right in front of the Moonrise Motel; there couldn't be any question about that.
When we got to the Moonrise Motel, after a three-hour drive, the manager and his wife were ready to leave.
The night after the first bluebell had opened, Fluff-Button went all alone to the Sheep Field at moonrisefor the first time.
The weather also accounted for the fact that Paddy Magragh, the earthstopper, went his rounds before moonrise that he might return the sooner to his warm cabin.
Have I not seen Pacific moonrise where no land is, and the gray and silver piled higher than the North Star Polaris?
Moonrise had begun some while ago at Ben's left shoulder, magnificent and calm.
Do I not know, some winged things from far Are borne along illimitable night To dance their lives out in a single flight Between the moonrise and the setting star?
Therefore, since I am forbidden to speak with you openly, meet me, I beseech you, at moonrise in the palace garden under the shade of the great fig tree with five roots, where I shall be accompanied only by one I trust.
Last night at an hour before the moonrise the Lady Baaltis came disguised by the secret way and waited at the pillar, where presently she was joined by the Jew Aziel and the Levite, who spoke with her.
Till moonrise you had never seen this woman, and now your quick blood is aflame, and you love her.
Then an hour before moonrise I will be in the temple, whither I can come by the secret way that leads thither from this palace, and he can enter there, for the little gate shall be left unbarred.
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