The girl stirred a little in Ennis' grasp, and he saw in the starlight that her face was no longer dazed.
In the starlight the whole cliff was collapsing, with a prolonged, terrible roar as of grinding planets, its face breaking and buckling.
Then there's your pitch- dark night; the river is a very different shape on a pitch-dark night from what it is on a starlight night.
The keen starlight could enable only the mere outline of the stranger's figure to be discerned.
I had arranged with Tudway to have a starlight excursion there and see something of these strangers, but headquarters disapproved.
There was no moon--only a faint starlight that seemed to intensify the darkness.
Evening soon settled down into night, and we ran on by starlight to our next anchorage, an almost land-locked bay, where we made merry on the remains of the ostrich.
The starlight was good enough for that story, a light so faint and remote that it cannot resolve shadows into shapes, and show the other shore of a stream.
The ruddy fiery glare, taking a long flight through the night, sank with a vicious hiss, and the calm soft starlight descended upon them, unchecked.
Marjorie must study astronomy by starlight to-morrow morning, and I am going to send you upstairs, Morris.
For, in the same second, there had come from the moving shadow the gleam of starlight reflected upward from polished metal.
She had gone out at night in storm to save Cruel Coppinger--should she not go out in still starlight to aid her own twin-brother, if he needed her?
But it carried her into the suburbs of Wadebridge, and in the starlight she reached the house of Mr. Obadiah Scantlebray, and stood before it, looking up at it despairingly.
Outside the night had long since settled down--a night which with snow and starlight was not dark, but shadowy and ghostlike, making the interval between two days a long-protracted dusk beneath which it was possible to see for miles.
In the starlight he could only see the tracery of the forest of palms, and here and there, ghost-like, a white dress flitting.
And under the starlight Rollo, as if knowing that the last stretch of the weary road had come, ran onward with his long, unflagging gallop.
They sat and listened to the brooks and birds, And watched the starlight perish in pale flame, Wondering what God would look like when He came.
Strange ghostly banners o'er them float, Strange bugles sound an awful note, And all their faces and their eyes Are lit with starlight from the skies.
By sunlight or by starlight ever thou Art excellent in beauty manifold; The still star victory ever gems thy brow; Age cannot age thee, ages make thee old.
No better commodity have we for the moment, the curator said, struck by the precarious shelter the hut offered--a crazy door and a roof that let the starlight through at one end of the wall.
And they sat talking in the soft starlight of what had befallen them when they separated in the darkness.
In the dim starlight they were able to trace the profile of a low but capacious tenement which stood almost on the tide mark.
It is a clear starlight and calm," replied the publican; "the moon will not show herself till near morning.
So he went on slowly until at a distance above him he saw the starlight coming through another loophole, the counterpart of that below the Hall, and mounted noiselessly, peering out upon the wider valley to the south.
It was starlight now, but dark, and the owls were already hooting mournfully as though the souls of those who lay in the sod beneath had come again to visit by night their last resting places.
The door into the secret passage had opened, and the starlight from the loophole beyond now showed a dusky silhouette.
He could not, as he calculated, reach Gurran by Sundown, but an hour's travelling along the smooth, broad trail by the clear starlight would be pleasant enough.
When thy hopes are all crushed, when thy passions lie dead, when thy pride is abased, when thou art but a wreck, like the shafts of this temple, through which the starlight can shine.
It was bright, frosty starlight as the lawyer walked back to town.
Moonlight and starlight paled presently, the prospect grew gloomy, the air bitter cold, and shivering and miserable, the girl crept away to bed.
It is your eyes I seek, it is your windy hair, Your starlightbody that breathes in the darkness there.
This is the one I have always loved; This is the one whose bat-soul comes To dance with me, flesh to flesh, In the starlight dance of horns and drums .
We traveled rapidly by the brilliant starlight and passing down the aroyo along which we camped, turned down the San Pedro River toward the south.
It was dazzling starlight with a gleaming streak of white moon.
The starlight played on it in a steely glitter that could not fail to catch Blake's eyes should he awake.
His beard was short and thick, and for a flash Philip saw the starlight in his eyes--eyes that were shining like the eyes of a cat.
In that starlight he could see the glisten of Celie's hair as it covered them like a golden veil, and once or twice through the space that separated them he caught the flash of a strange fire in the outlaw's eyes.
Above this is a fine view of an open country, and a clear, blue, starlight sky.
Perhaps he was even now loading his mule, and setting forth by the glimmer of the starlight upon his dangerous road.
Millie every now and then glanced at Tony's face, but she saw only his profile, and with only the glimmer of the starlight to serve her for a reading-lamp, she could guess nothing of his expression.
And after that, for many hours, they sat in the starlight in front of the cabin door.
It approached cautiously, with lowered head and hunched shoulders, and the starlight revealed the murderous face of Sandy McTrigger.
Gray Wolf found the opening first, and she slipped out into the starlight like a shadow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starlight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
