A slight wind was moving amongst the treetops, the night was clear but
moonless. About half a mile away they could just discern a corner of the club-house.
His vessel was chased for days by three of the Zodangan war ships but finally escaped during the darkness of a
moonless night.
The canal beneath the window looked like a black gulf; the opposite houses were barely visible as a row of shadows, dimly relieved against the starless and
moonless sky.
"My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close
moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child.
The latter dismounted, took the leaders by the bridle, and led them over the velvet sward and the mossy grass of a winding alley, at the bottom of which, on this
moonless night, the deep shades formed a curtain blacker than ink.
Not until the camp was wrapped in the quiet of slumber did Sing Lee return--stealthy and mysterious--to creep under cover of a
moonless night to the door of the workshop.
I promise you that you shall thrust your arms elbow-deep among good silver pieces ere the nights are
moonless again; for on every hand of us are fair women, rich wine, and good plunder, as much as heart could wish."
Dimly through the darkness of a
moonless night he saw the awful blackness of the jungle, yet it touched no responsive chord of terror within him now as it had done in the past.
At length night came, a
moonless night, a dark night.
It was a
moonless night, but the light of the stars was sufficient to show the outline of the young woman's form, and the shape of her face gazing gravely, indeed almost sternly, into the sky.
The glossy mass of her jet hair had been built into a coiffure of stately and becoming grandeur, into which diamond-headed pins were stuck until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a
moonless night.
The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on
moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.