mooncalves
- plural of mooncalf.
Example Sentences
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I think I forgot the Selenites, the mooncalves, the lid, and the noises completely so soon as I had eaten that fungus.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Education contains much moonshine; but not of the sort that makes mere mooncalves and idiots the slaves of a silver magnet, the one eye of the world.
From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
He takes at last no interest in the deeper part of the moon; he regards all Selenites not equally versed in mooncalves with indifference, derision, or hostility.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
You forget," he said, "that these mooncalves neither think nor reason.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
And at the immediate mouth of the tunnel was a wide trampled space where the mooncalves had come and gone.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
