orb of night
Example Sentences
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Thus equipped, the three stood outside the cabin, with the moon high in the sky, a gentle wind sweeping up the cañon and loose masses of clouds drifting in front of the orb of night.
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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
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
The sun on one side, and the orb of night on the other, flooded the projectile with light.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
The fifty minutes' halt in the desolate bush terminated when the deep orange-hued orb of night rose above the distant sea.
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Ernest Prater
