Do we say starlet or starlit

starlet 4 occurrences

Like some young veiled Bride, Gleams the moon's hazy face, When tissues that would hide But lend her charms a grace: Each winkling starlet pale, Sleeps in its far, far fold, Wrapp'd in the heavy veil Of dewy clouds and cold.

She's a very famous starlet, I hear they're even considering putting her in a picture.

She's a very famous starlet, I hear they're even considering putting her in a picture.

The moon is sleeping under ground like a dead one; but beyond the garden the sun's red evening-clouds have fallen down like rose-leaves; and the evening-star, the brideman of the sun, hovers, like a glancing butterfly, above the rosy red, and, modest as a bride, deprives no single starlet of its light.

starlit 117 occurrences

Therefore I redressed and sat with the light still out, gazing across the starlit bay.

Rudolph tore away the bar, heard the heavy gate slam shut, and found himself running down the starlit road.

Sometimes, when the men were singing round the camp fire, singing and laughing, the sense of my loss would come crushing down upon me, and I'd spring to my feet and wander out into the starlit silence of the vast plains and spend the night thinking of all that had passed between us.

Above was a cloudless, starlit sky, with neither wind nor the promise of it.

The first gleam made the dark lonely islet into a cheering home, turned the protecting tree to a starlit roof, and the chestnut-sprays to illuminated walls.

Then she sped down the starlit avenue towards the open fields and the town.

On a cold, starlit night, nestled in feathery warmth, to sail over the dark tree-tops, high and higher and on and onthat is a wonderful thing.

It grew, a starlit flag unfurled!

With a hurried exclamation he ran across the empty room to the door and looked down the starlit street.

Understand?" He crawled out ahead of the superintendent, and before MacDonald had emerged from the coyote he had already lost himself in the starlit gloom of the night and was hastening to his tryst with the beautiful girl, who, he believed, would reveal to him at least a part of one of the strangest and most diabolical plots that had ever originated in the brain of man.

There was something in their sphynx-like attitude, in the moveless reaching of their muzzles out into the wonderful starlit mystery of the still night that filled him with an indefinable sense of awe.

They came out from the hut again at half-past three in the morning and looked up to a cloudless starlit sky which faded in the east to the colour of pearl.

This calm sea under the starlit sky is like a dream of heaven.'

It was a rough starlit night, and from the stern of the vessel the tumbled white water made a pathway straight to receding England.

We watched the procession a long time, winding away through the streetsa line of torches, and songs, and incense, and noisy jubileeunder the sweet starlit heaven.

Then we go out into the starlit, but not over-bright night,such a one as is friendly to lovers and to thieves, friendly to religion and to thought, the beloved of sentimentalists, and the adored of this particular group of adventurous miners.

Sweet is the charm of starlit sailing where no danger is.

She was leaning back against the column and looking dreamily out across the lowlands toward the starlit sea.

He left her with Bobby Browne and went out upon the cool, starlit balcony.

The glory of the starlit heavens, the mighty wonder of the sea, and the majesty of thunder had come home to them, and the breathless fulness of the sunset hour had whispered of something more than the humour of tomorrow's weather.

A feathery sprinkling of snow, which had fallen in the afternoon, lay over everything; but the rack of clouds which had brought it had blown away, and the night was frosty and starlit.

Upstairs the shells burst playfully on the parapet, and under the starlit sky a gas cloud drifts slowly across the fields, almost hiding the cattle who are grazing peacefully there in the long wet grass.

Co. (PCW) THE STARLIT WAY, Christmas service.

The starlit journey.

After he had gone she stood gazing across the starlit mesa.

Do we say   starlet   or  starlit