Starlight
['stɑːlaɪt] or ['stɑr'laɪt]
Definition
(n.) The light given by the stars.
(a.) Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
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Examples
- When we had again alighted, and were walking in the starlight along the quiet road that led to the Doctor's house, I told Agnes it was her doing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is a starlight night, said Mr. Yorke. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Looking across it in the darkness, lighter here in the open from the starlight, he saw the dark bulks of the picketed horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Winter again came round, with its winds, frosts, tame robins, and sparkling starlight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But both of them walked about a long while before they went out of the starlight. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Unable longer to resist the temptation to escape this horrible place I leaped quickly through the opening into the starlight of a clear Arizona night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But when the day is done, even the most unimpressible must yield to the dreamy influences of this tranquil starlight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As his eyes became used to the starlight he could see that Pablo was standing by one of the horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His face was pale, his eyes dark, there was a faint spark of starlight on them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I wept, when I saw Jerusalem, I wept when I lay in the starlight at Bethlehem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They could see his heavy, long-armed body in the starlight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Lilian