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
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 Sidney Lanier
In the "vacant interlunar caves" where he hid himself, he could hardly feel the restraints that press on those who move within ear-shot and jostle of their fellows on this actual earth.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
After them there was a long interlunar period of darkness for the land of the Rhine and the Danube.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
It hangs vacant, one may say; extinct, like the Moon in her vacant interlunar cave.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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