Moonlight
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By
moonlight
in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.
They were praising the breadth of the columns of St. Peter's, Tivoly, Vesuvius, Castellamare, and Cassines, the roses of Genoa, the Coliseum by
moonlight.
Signs by moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over yielded hands, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness could not be separated from the balconies of great castles full of indolence, from boudoirs with silken curtains and thick carpets, well-filled flower-stands, a bed on a raised dias, nor from the flashing of precious stones and the shoulder-knots of liveries.
She could catch glimpses of tree tops, and beyond, the fields, half-drowned in the fog that lay reeking in the
moonlight
along the course of the river.
I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by
moonlight
have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!""Oh! and your friends?" she said.
At times the shadow of the willows hid her completely; then she reappeared suddenly, like a vision in the
moonlight.
The watering on the satin gown shimmered white as
moonlight.
'Fie, Sir!' she said, and thrust him from her.Greatly relieved at this repulse, he hastened to cast an eye round the room: the
moonlight
was so brilliant that the shadows which it formed in Mademoiselle de La Mole's room were black.
The pillows on the bed looked remarkably plump as they lay half in the
moonlight.
It was clearly the lawyer's office, fitted out with old, heavy furniture, as far as could be seen in the
moonlight
which now illuminated just a small, rectangular section of the floor by each of the three big windows.
The
moonlight
glittered and quivered in the water, which divided itself around a small island covered in a densely-piled mass of foliage and trees and bushes.
The
moonlight
lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.
Maybe boar's head stuffed with sugar-plums did not agree with him (it wouldn't with me, I know), and he had had enough of sack and mead; so he slipped from the noisy revel to steal a quiet
moonlight
hour with his beloved Elgiva.
Perhaps, from the casement, standing hand-in-hand, they were watching the calm
moonlight
on the river, while from the distant halls the boisterous revelry floated in broken bursts of faint-heard din and tumult.
We fell upon his neck there in the
moonlight
and blessed him, and it would have made a very beautiful picture if the boy himself had not been so over-powered by our emotion as to be unable to sustain himself under it, and sunk to the ground, letting us all down on top of him.
The reaches down to Pangbourne woo one for a sunny sail or for a
moonlight
row, and the country round about is full of beauty.
"Archibald eclipses the Muses themselves; his words flow like the sylvan stream by moonlight, and his melody is a crossbreed of the nightingale and the owl.""Captain Lawton," cried the exasperated operator, "it is one thing to despise the lights of classical learning, and another to be despised for your own ignorance!"
The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the
moonlight.
Some had a stirrup cup or two before parting, and I cannot forget one who tore past on a huge white horse, brandishing a great rusty sword in the
moonlight.
His little companion flashed off in the moonlight, and was over the wall in a trice.
'So much the worse,' returned Wardle; 'for they'll have had all the advantage of the
moonlight
to get the start of us, and we shall lose it.
I know she was; for in the bright
moonlight
nights, when I start up from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which, streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.
The bottom of the oldest grave about him was not more still and quiet than the churchyard in the pale
moonlight.
How quiet and sweet and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be more than thirty feet down.
He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, where he could see a dark figure in the
moonlight.
It was a beautiful
moonlight
night, and the lawn in front of the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day.
He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was
moonlight
and every body was full of engagements.
BY RUDYARD KIPLING AND WOLCOTT BALESTIERCHAPTER I.NICHOLAS TARVIN sat in the
moonlight
on the unrailed bridge that crossed the irrigating-ditch above Topaz, dangling his feet over the stream.
They were brown, and the
moonlight
deepened their sober depths.
She stopped a moment in the road they were following back to Topaz and glanced at his face in the
moonlight.
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