moonless

How in an auspicious hour, on a moonless night, the Princess came forth a Princess indeed, and how Melissa smuggled her into a dark empty honey-magazine, to bide her time; and how the drones, knowing she was there, went about singing the deep disreputable love-songs of the old days--to the scandal of the laying sisters, who do not think well of drones.

If it were worth the while to settle in those parts near to the Pleiades or the Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him.

It was a moonless night, thick with stars above, very dark on the water.

The night was dark and moonless, and from the state of the tide Sam concluded it was near midnight.

There is a trap-door at the back of that building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless nights."

The night was moonless, but there were some stars, and one could see for a little distance across the plain.

In an effort to record the life of the artist, Karen Mary Davalos springboards into the story with a quote from Lopez in which she honors her grandparents, "who courageously crossed el Rio Grande on a moonless and dangerous night in 1918." Lopez had a complicated connection to her Mexican identity as she grew up in the very white and conservative San Diego, California, but that combined with her mother's union work inspired her radical vision for political art.

But the evening was dominated by lengthy readings from Dylan Thomas' iconic works such as Under Milk Wood with its unforgettable starting words "To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible black..." and including a reading of the sad poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night written on the death of Thomas' father.

Number of stars visible to the naked eye on a moonless night at Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah, the first-ever International Dark Sky Park.

It was 2.30am when the convoy finally reached Camp Zeebrugge, crawling through the moonless night like a herd of prehistoric beasts...This was the moment when British troops completed one of their most complex and daring operations since the Second World War: outfoxing the Taleban to deliver a giant new turbine to the Kajaki Dam.

The Bee Tree recounts the legend of Hitam Manis, a servant girl who became transformed into a bee, and tells of the many precautions honey hunters take to avoid being stung (such as collecting honey only on moonless nights, and sending sparks to the ground to lure away guardian bees from the honeycomb), all through the eyes of a young boy being schooled in ancient ways.

The slight glow from Las Vegas, more than 300 km to the south, is one of the most prominent features in that park's firmament on a moonless night.

Appalachian spring arrives as an evening apparition, leaping from the hollows of a rain-drenched moonless night.

Narrator A: It is a moonless night in the fall of 1608, on a lonely English shoreline on the North Sea.

Infantry scouts interviewed from D/9 Cavalry (Dark Horse), 1CD, attested that "now, when we use it [LRAS3], we can tell the difference between a man planting a bomb and children playing several miles away on a moonless night.