And I have come back here Where twelve hundred moons ago Black Eagle before me Had the knife run through his ribs And through his heart.
This must be the place where Black Eagle Twelve hundred moons ago Stood with folded arms, While a Pottawatomie father Plunged a knife in his heart, For the murder of a son.
Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.
Only a few moons after the marriage they joined a hunting party passing down the Mississippi River.
Two moons passed and there were no tidings of the young men.
Not many moons before, Ni-co-man had awakened from a dream of conquest and beheld, in the pale light, a shadowy figure wrapped in a blanket of snowy white.
If our earth, for example, had four moons instead of one, and they were each in different positions in relation to the earth, then the law as to the direction of the forces would still hold good.
The time between two successive new moons (synodic period or lunation) is twenty-nine and one-half days.
Half of Jupiter's great disk and most of the other moons were below the horizon when the man stepped out of the plane and changed her life.
I remember the time we went on a picnic--I don't recall how many moons there were in the sky--and the ground began to shake.
An enlightened churchman has conceived that this calculation of moons refers to the past period, during which the church was oppressed, and the anger of the Lord excited in the first French Revolution, when the "measure of wrath was filled.
This advance of many warriors upon the capital is an event which, according to the prophecy, must be accomplished before a full number of moons is completed, or, it would seem, within the year from the date of the outbreak of the Revolution.
These moons are the same material and electric composition as the worlds from which they come, and, as like polarity repels, they are thus kept in their orbits.
By this same electric repulsion the planets prevent their moons from falling back onto their surfaces.
In addition, Flammarion seems to take the same position, for he says: "In Mars two moons revolve rapidly in the heavens in opposite directions, which seems to refute the nebular hypothesis.
Oftentimes Tarzan went empty for more than a full sun, and he had passed through entire moons during which he had been but barely able to stave off starvation; but such times were infrequent.
After the lapse of 19 years the new moons occur on the same days of the same months as before.
Hippopopotamus comforts his heart Biting half-moons out of strawberry tart.
After this wonderful re-union the two settled down again to the old life in the valley, and the moons went quickly by.
But long, long afterwards, when countless moons had come and gone, Dusty Star, remembering, was sure that it was Baltook who had brought his cold nose to him as a token of farewell.
Over its dusky summit a thousand moons had waxed and waned.
Now many moons before, a band of Yellow Dogs had gone into the West, and settled down by the river that flowed out of the Chetawa lake.
Even to study the moons of Mars, the lesser one whirling round the planet with such astonishing velocity, was a world of entertainment to me.
Already it was dark beyond the radius of these lights,--neither of the moons having yet appeared.
On the evening of November 11, there was a brilliant paraselene, two distinct halos and eight false moons being visible in the southern sky.
By that time the light had disappeared, and it would be necessary to wait for the recurringmoons of the long winter night before we could do any more work.
What with the rings surrounding the planet and 8 moons in constant motion, there will be an endless succession of astronomical sights for them to study.
Again, it has been concluded that no fewer than half a million of full moons shining all at once would be required to make up a mass of light equal to that of the Sun.
The two moons of Mars--to which our astronomers have given the names of Deimos and Phobos--were just then in sight at the same time.
Into the open part, one of Mars' two moons was peeping, throwing down a warm, mellow light, very different from the pale silvery beams of our own moon.
The planets and their moons move in certain well-defined orbits or tracks, and you know exactly where you are likely to meet them and what to do if you wish to avoid them.
I see the moons float by; I see messengers reach Shabaka, sent by Peroa and you O holy Tanofir; they tell of trouble in Egypt.
Some tribes have twelve named moons in the year, but many tribes have not more than six; and different bands of the same tribe, if occupying widely separated sections of the country, will have different names for the same moon.
The year comprised alternately twelve and thirteen moons or months.
Their months "do not coincide with the months of our calendar, for they extend from one new moon to the next one, and therefore should be more properly called moons or lunations.
They have no names for moonsafter the season gets warm (Clark, 17).
They have now generally discarded the former method of counting moons upon fingers, and instead of it they reckon time by the seasons in which natural products are harvested (Gatschet, 1).
Whether Jupiter appears with dark stripes upon its surface, or is uniformly illuminated, pertains as little to the inquiries of the astronomer; and its four moons are interesting to him only for the motions they have.
Many moons came out of the sky, were wasted and died before the woman M'lama showed signs of her gifts.
I will raise as many spears from The Diggers and captain them with M'joro men--this I could do between the moons and none would say that you were not protected.
I think it is evident that eclipses of the sun occur at new moons and eclipses of the moon at full moon.
Twelve lunar months are nearly 11 days short of the solar year, so that the new moons in one year fall 11 days earlier than they did the preceding year.
Now at that word, "the new moons and sabbaths I cannot away with," I ceased from reading.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
