So far I had seen nothing of the Morlocks, but it was yet early in the night, and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come.
Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white.
It was becoming an
old moon to the friends we had left behind us, but to us Joshuas it stood still in the same place and remained always the same.
He felt a strong desire to hustle them all along a bit and teach them business habits; the hoary old dog and the grizzled, heavy-faced old butler with his prehistoric shirt-front, and the drowsy
old moon, and above all the scatter-brained old philosopher who couldn't keep an appointment.
It's also sometimes known as the
old moon or the ice moon.
The closure left the Ryton with just twopubs, The Runhead and The
Old Moon, althoughthe Lane Head micropub has since openedits doors.
In some cultures, it was known as
Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon after Yule.
Sometimes it was also referred to as the
Old Moon, or Moon After the Yule.
Look for dim, gray earthshine illuminating the crescent Moon's night parts--the beautiful "
old Moon in the new Moon's arm's" effect.
However, I checked with NASA and it's still definitely the same
old Moon as last week.
PigPen Theatre Company's The Old Man and The
Old Moon is a new folktale about an old man who abandons his daily task of filling the moon with light to folio whis wife on a fantastical adventure.
In the last years of our lives we become like God's spies as we enter into the mystery of things and laugh at the gossip of poor rogues who are still obsessed with who's in and who's out, who wins or loses at court, in the endless ebb and changes of the fickle
old moon.