"New moon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had broken, the clouds began to disappear, and through their rifts the stars glimmered, and the new moon ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... this difference as being due to the fact that the full-moon to its very edges is fully illuminated, all the shadows of the ridges and mountains being thrown vertically or obliquely behind them. We thus measure the heat reflected from the whole visible surface. But at new moon, and somewhat beyond the first quarter, the deep shadows thrown by the smallest cones and ridges, as well as by the loftiest mountains, cover a considerable portion of the visible surface, thus largely reducing the quantity of light and heat reflected or radiated ...
— Is Mars Habitable? • Alfred Russel Wallace
... says will only enrage the King still more. Michal sings an exultant aria, "No, let the Guilty tremble," and even Merab, won over by David's qualities, pleads for him in a beautiful aria, "Author of peace." Another symphony intervenes, preluding the celebration of the feast of the new moon in the palace, to which David has been invited. Jonathan again interposes with an effort to save David's life, whereupon Saul, in a fresh outburst of indignation, hurls his javelin at his son, and the chorus bursts out in horror, "Oh, ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton
... The new moon was dim, but a sprinkling of stars lit the sky. The man and girl were far enough from the Lodge not ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)
... down his cup and went over to one of the open windows. It was nearly as dark as it was likely to be that midsummer night. A new moon was shining faintly in the clear evening sky; and here and there a solitary star shone with a tremulous brightness. The shadows of the trees made spots of solemn darkness on the wide lawn before the windows, ...
— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon
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