The dark moonless night. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A black moonless sky brooded above the dying camp fires. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
To shew through moonless skies that there is light in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
The night of the eighteenth of December was moonless and dark. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
The moonless night, at ten o'clock, found Van alone at his tent. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
VAUSE: On a moonless night more than two weeks ago he was right. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2003] Reference
It was a moonless night, and a haze of cloud obscured the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Night came down moonless and dark save for the light of the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
On a dark and moonless night in the early spring three hundred armed. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
Flinx imagined a foamless wave cresting on a moonless night and shuddered. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
It might well have been a moonless midnight, so dark did it suddenly become. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
Beta had three, two of which were always in the sky, but Kardon was moonless. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
There was a tension in the sultry air settling the camp from the moonless sky. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
(Jumping under a moonless sky virtually guarantees more broken bones on landings.). From Wordnik.com. [How U.S. Troops Would Go In] Reference
Both are visible on a moonless night, but in bright moonlight the smaller disappears. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Atop the dome, a torch provided a beacon to relieve the blackness of moonless nights. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
It was a starless, moonless night -- a night to prowl successfully about clotheslines. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
On a much-needed break, I flew solo into Bali on a moonless night without a reservation. From Wordnik.com. [Lea Lane: Eat, Pray, Scratch] Reference
The night closed down, dark and moonless, with a heaviness in the air which was oppressive. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
We were left in the thick gloom of a moonless evening and the peaceful silence of still air. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
The moonless night afforded scarce light but posed no problems for the gargoyle's sharp eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Argoyle] Reference
On a moonless night on August 19th, a Japanese destroyer sliced through Kennedy's patrol boat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2002] Reference
Stars glittered in the moonless sky as midnight approached, and still the cobbler had no deer. From Wordnik.com. [The Cobbler and the King] Reference
Just above, over the crown of the hill, she saw the sky, moonless, blackish, spattered with stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Marines scanned the moonless horizon with night-vision goggles and held their M-4 rifles at the ready. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
It's been quite moonless, so totally dark the past couple of nights, and they operate with almost no lights. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003] Reference
The nights were now dark and moonless, and on the third of our stay the lions were exceptionally troublesome. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
The sky was clear, moonless, and filled to the brim with what a poet once described as a deep throw of stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Naked Wedding] Reference
Late one moonless night, a heavily armed convoy of Baluchi drug smugglers took them across the border and deep into Iran. From Wordnik.com. [Unholy Allies] Reference
When I went to my room for the night, I drew back my curtain and looked out into the darkness of a cloudy, moonless night. From Wordnik.com. [Medoline Selwyn's Work] Reference
The twilight had settled into a night that was moonless, but had that luminosity often seen on clear nights in late autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
The dare was made more interesting by the fact that it was a wet, windy, moonless night, and there was a time limit of one hour. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
Check out these amazing pictures as 1,000 troops from the Army's 173rd Army Brigade parachuted into the country on a moonless night. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2003] Reference
She squeezed his full cargo even harder as their lips formed the pact that would launch him across the moonless black of his journey. From Wordnik.com. [Parting Gifts] Reference
But now, curled in his roll, he was alert to every sound out of the moonless night, finding himself listening -- for what he did not know. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
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