orb of night
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Luke Shepard joined him and looked out, too, at the rather misty orb of night that peered through the breaking clouds.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
The axis of the enormous gun, continued upwards vertically, would have struck the orb of night exactly in her centre.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
Several changes of day and night passed, and the orb of night had greatly lessened, when I began to distinguish my sensations from each other.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is a singular fact that the star of hope and the orb of night rose at one and the same hour upon the horizon.
From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis
Such perhaps that of the lunar continents when the orb of night loses by radiation all the heat which she absorbs during the fifteen days of sunshine.
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word