"Moonlit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was slightly embarrassed. I recollected how he had silently watched us on that memorable night by the moonlit lake, and a feeling ...
— Hushed Up - A Mystery of London • William Le Queux
... drew back in the shadow of a tall lilac bush. They were well across the campus and now, at the end of the path, near the gate and not far from Lenox Hall, something moved in and out of the moonlit way. It seemed to cross from the big stone wall and glide into the ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft
... across the river, the story of its sweetest charm, and of its garden the fairest flower must not be left untold. Kiyo, the host's daughter, was a lovely maiden of but eighteen, as graceful as the bamboo reed swaying in the breeze of a moonlit summer's eve, and as pretty as the blossoms of the cherry-tree. Far and wide floated the fame of Kiyo, like the fragrance of the white lilies of Ibuki, when the wind sweeping down the mountain heights, comes ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis
... men to whom she spoke were gazing at her with rapt eyes. O'Keefe was riding on that moonlit night at the gallop of bold dreams, and in his mind were visions of wedding and infare. Halloway's thoughts would perhaps have suffered by comparison, but in desire and the wild dream they were no less strong, and later when he and Brent lay on the same palet, in the ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... any semblance of sunset; but through the gray moonlit haze, Leonard kept his face to the window, pertinaciously clearing openings in the bedewed glass, as though the varying outline of the horizon had a fascination for him. At last, after ten minutes of glaring gas at a junction had by contrast ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
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