54 Metaphors for moons

30 With hues of genius on his cheek In finest tones the Youth could speak: While he was yet a boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, 35 Had been his dearest joy.

Den at nighttime when de moon was shinin' big an' yaller, us'd play 'Ole Molly Bright.'

In my examination by the learned doctors I had stated that their world was but a Moon, and that the Moon from which I had come was really a world.

" "Lord, now do I beseech thee" "And the moon will be fullto-night, Roger.

In the midst of wild, rolling clouds, the moon was a drowning face.

THE DONKEY When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood

THE SUN IS SETTING; IN THE EAST THE NEW MOON IS RISINGA THIN CRESCENT.

The moon is also a woman, and not particularly chaste.

When the moon is at the full, a tumor, or imposthume, grows on the belly of this animal, resembling a bladder filled with blood, and at this time people go to hunt this animal for the sake of this bag or swelling, which they dry in the sun, and sell at a high price, as it is the best of musk.

No matter how faltering was his memory in other regards, the moon, at least, was an old acquaintance.

But Hannah Moon, as Margaret happened to know, was now the widow of Senator Alvah Moon.

She moon's his way: in all things his sweete Ape.

The moon is the lamp he paints by; His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake; Jack Frost the artist's name.

"The moon is quite a little ball.

I found nothing better, at last, than to watch the opposition of the planets during the night, and especially that of the moon, with the other planets, because the moon is swifter in her course than any other of the heavenly bodies.

However, while this narrative was appearing in the 'Evening News,' several correspondents kindly informed me that Ly-ee-Moon (at times written 'Lai-Mun') was Chinese, being the name of a narrow passage or strait between the island of Hong-Kong and the mainland of China (now transferred to Great Britain), at the eastern entrance to the harbour of the city of Victoria on the island.

Half-moons, leaves, diamonds, stars, shamrocks, rings, etc., are the most appropriate shapes for fancy pastry.

MOON, the satellite of the earth, from which it is distant 238,800 m., and which revolves round it in 27-1/3 days, taking the same time to rotate on its own axis, so that it presents always the same side to us; is a dark body, and shines by reflection of the sun's light, its diameter 2165 m.; it has a rugged surface of mountains and valleys without verdure; has no water, no atmosphere, and consequently no life.

A moon was the measure of a month, but it is questionable whether they had acquired sufficient exactitude in the computation of time to have numbered the days comprehended in each moon.

The moon in its wanderings must be a sort of exasperation to cunning beasts, likely to spoil by untimely risings some fore-planned mischief.

Thirty years ago Proctor made it clear to Western students that the orbit of the moon was a cycloidal curve (a drawn-out spring) around the sun, the earth's orbit being coincident with its axis; and that the moon was, astronomically and correctly, a satellite of the sun, not a satellite of the earth.

The moon is upall nature still; the cow, again on her legs, is restless, and evidently frightened.

I observed that the moon was about a degree and some minutes farther east than Mars, and at midnight she was five degrees and a half farther east, a little more or less.

Your eye looked murder; as sure as that moon is shinin', so sure the sign of death was on your face that time, whatever way your words went.

Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.

54 Metaphors for  moons