horned moon
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And I saw the Virgin draped in the gown of night standing on the bright, horned moon of autumn, and she was in mourning for the fourth son.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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Here, where on golden throne the monarch lolled, Glides, spectre-like, unto his marble home, Lit by the wanlight—wan light of the horned moon, The swift and silent lizard of the stones!
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe
I could see no cloud, and there before me, dropping to the horizon, glistened the horned moon.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
Over the spine of the ridge a horned moon of reddish hue peers through the splintered, hag-like trees.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
The evening was most beautiful; the horned moon hung in the light of sunset that threw a glow of unusual depth of redness above the piny mountains and the dark deep valleys which they included.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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