Moon-beam

Quick meaning: Moon-beam is a noun meaning Archaic form of moonbeam.

Meaning

Archaic form of moonbeam.

Example Sentences

Were there no stockings of Zetland wool soft enough for these pretty feet and ancles, that glance so white in the moon-beam?

Andersen (Orient. Reise-Beschreib. i. 8) refers to an effect, which he says is common, and which he had often seen, of sleeping in the moon-beams, of making the neck stiff, so that it could not be turned from side to side as before.

The silence of the place; the pale waves of the Tiber, the moon-beams, which shed their mild radiance upon the statues placed on the bridge, and gave to those statues the appearance of white spectres, steadfastly regarding the current of the waters, and that of time, which no longer concerned them; […]

Word Forms

• moon-beams

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