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Definition of Moonbeams
1. moonbeam [n] - See also: moonbeam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonbeams
Literary usage of Moonbeams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of the Louisiana Territory by Alexander Nicolas De Menil (1904)
"moonbeams. (From Arthur's Home Magazine. 1859.) These gentle moonbeams ...
sweet home-hours, When these same silver moonbeams played Upon the wall and ..."
2. Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens, (late Associate Justice of the by James D. Waddell (1877)
"... she inclines to fat, because that gives me assurance that she is a flesh and
blood woman—none of your pining, poetical shadows that live upon moonbeams ..."
3. The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year's Present by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1831)
"... TO THE moonbeams. BY HANNAH F. GOULD. AWAY ! Away! from her favorite bower,
Where ye loved to come in the evening hour, To silver the leaf, ..."
4. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot By the struggling moonbeams' ..."
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