Word: moonless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purring forth along the Hillsborough road, on a moonless night, the Ducal motor was suddenly hailed by a plump, determined wench who had planted herself and a huge basket of eggs so strategically in the road that to circumvent either was impossible. Resolute, she wrenched open the limousine's door and clambered in, clutching her basket, slumping down cheerily beside His Grace, who is four times a baron, twice a marquis, twice a viscount, as well as being Earl and Duke of Abercorn. Wench and Duke rode on into Belfast, jointly steadying the eggs...
...dark, moonless midnight, ten midWest yokels armed with sticks surrounded a sidetracked private car. "Wake up, Hen! Wake up, Hen!" they shouted, then thwacked the car mightfully for half an hour. "Hey! Wake up, Hen! How's your brother Bill...
...moonless night last week a sheriff and two deputies were sitting in an empty warehouse in Wilson, Ark., smoking meditatively and staring at the lantern that yellowed the ceiling above them and the floor at their feet. At one side, in a huddle of shadow, lay a young man. His name was Albert Blazes. He had attacked a white girl; anyway, the girl said it was a Negro who attacked her, and Albert Blazes was a Negro. The bloodhounds had brought him in. Now the sheriff was holding him until he got what was coming to him; he must know...
...moonless night, a thunderstorm, two sessions...
What could disprove the notion of the Shenandoah being a fair-weather craft more happily than this? A moonless night, a heavy thunderstorm, two sessions of heavy fog?none of these seemed to have bothered the ship very much. The difficulty in landing "light" will certainly disappear when the ballast recovery apparatus has been attached to every engine...