interlunar
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of interlunar
Example Sentences
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It is like "the vacant interlunar cave" John Milton wrote of in Samson Agonistes.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013
After them there was a long interlunar period of darkness for the land of the Rhine and the Danube.
From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
Hercules then unbinds Prometheus who repairs to a certain exquisite interlunar cave and there dwells in tranquillity with his beloved Asia.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
Poem 252. interlunar swoon: interval of the Moon's invisibility.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner
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