A gibbous moon touched the lake with broken light. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
His face, that of a gibbous moon, was white as wax. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Vanished Moon]
And the moon is always gibbous | Living the Liminal. From Wordnik.com. [And the moon is always gibbous | Living the Liminal] Reference
Or the aldrich moon, which is waxing gibbous and all. From Wordnik.com. [Calls For Cthulhu] Reference
When it's full, or even gibbous, it's a lot brighter. '. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
Near the horizon was the thin outline of a gibbous moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
The moon was gibbous and filled the room with blue light. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
And mock the mocking malice of yon day-dimm'd gibbous moon. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The moon's phase on the day you were born was waning gibbous. From Wordnik.com. [lostinmylove Diary Entry] Reference
"Yes, sir," Shannon replied, squinting up at the gibbous moon. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
The gibbous moon rose over the stark hills and lit Taita's way. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
From the west a gibbous moon cast light down the shallow valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
It was night, with a huge gibbous moon hovering suspiciously low. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
The moon was gibbous, but it gave too strong a light for my purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
It turned to a gibbous blue world, getting smaller, then smaller still. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
He stared at the tiny, barely visible gibbous disc of Deimos, and waited. From Wordnik.com. [The Sands of Mars]
He could see her face, pale white, colder, more awful than the gibbous moon. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
On the last day of the waning gibbous the master and servant shall be united. From Wordnik.com. [clashpunk Diary Entry] Reference
The gibbous moon was now high in the sky, washing the ruins in an eery light. From Wordnik.com. [Conan]
The gibbous moon rose above the hilltops and shone serenely down upon the Gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
She hung gibbous over the Steeps, turning them bone color and drowning the stars. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
Rollicking at night under the waning gibbous moon with Freddy, the dogs bark continuously. From Wordnik.com. [FLATFISH] Reference
She looked so young-not the witchling now, but a frightened child, pale in the gibbous moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
The second glume is thinner, dorsally gibbous, keeled, 5 - to 9-nerved, beaked and minutely bifid. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
A monstrous gibbous moon emerged from behind a cloud-and the moon was bone white, with bony pocks. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
Mars was a ruddy gibbous moon, bulging ever bigger in the sky; it was time to prepare to maneuver. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones]
A dozen degrees over the horizon the gibbous moon floated, almost invisible, so dark a red was it. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
A low, late, gibbous moon had now appeared above the trees at the other side of a bordering field. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
Suddenly the window below their feet was filled by a world, huge and gibbous, blue and swirling white. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Abdomen elongate-subfusiform, longer and much more slender than the thorax; first segment gibbous above. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
They slipped out of camp after midnight, with only the light of the gibbous Zenobian moon to guide them. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
The clouds had broken; the night had grown colder; the gibbous moon gleamed over the vast and solitary landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
A gibbous moon, just waning from the full, had risen high enough now to illuminate the depths of the city of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Stars glittered like chips of ice in the perfect black sky, and a gibbous moon frosted the land with crystalline light. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
That very word, gibbous, had always made her flinch, though she knew that all it meant was rounded, more than half full. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
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