"Gibbous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... roll into a ball; give rotundity &c n.; round. Adj. rotund; round &c (circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid^; columnar, lumbriciform^; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated^, globous^, globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform^; campaniform^, campanulate^, campaniliform^; fungiform^, bead-like, moniliform^, pyriform^, bulbous; tres atque rotundus [Lat.]; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Johnson, under the word "falcated." "The enlightened part of the moon appears in the form of a sickle or reaping-hook, which is while she is moving from the conjunction to the opposition, or from the new moon to the full: but from full to a new again the enlightened part appears gibbous, and the dark falcated." ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... discovered that the planet Mars does not always present the appearance of a circular disc. When near opposition the full disc of the planet is visible, but at all other times it is gibbous, and approaches nearest to that of a half-moon ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... first glance, how it should happen till she saw, against a closet-door ajar, a gibbous sphere of red and golden flame. Yards apart the points were, and a shadow lay between; but the one sure sunbeam knew no distance, and there was no radiant ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... Of formless life mounded upon the earth; And buzzing always like the pipes and strings Of solemn music made for sorcerers.— I abhor flies,—to see them stare upon me Out of their little faces of gibbous eyes; To feel the dry cool skin of their bodies alight Perching upon my lips!—O yea, a dream, A dream of impious obscene Satan, this Monstrous frenzy of life, the Indian being! And there are men in the dream! What men are they? I've heard, naught relishes ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various
... powerful machine puffed out on its flaring way through the night. Faster and faster came the big explosive breaths, until they blended in a long steady roar, and the train was sweeping northward at forty miles an hour. The clouds had broken; the night had grown colder; the gibbous moon gleamed over the vast and solitary landscape. It was a different thing to Hemenway, riding in the cab of the locomotive, from an ordinary journey in the passenger car or an unconscious ride in the sleeper. Here he was ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... moon came up, gibbous and glowing, its beams seemed to skim into the darkness under the pines as a swallow flies, scaling along beneath the blackness of close-set plumes above, to light long aisles between the naked boles below. These that had been so invisible before that I had to find ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard
... of a river, like the rivers of the old miniature-painters, blue, and full to a fair green margin. One notices along its course a greater proportion than elsewhere of still untouched old seignorial residences, larger or smaller. The range of old gibbous towns along its banks, expanding their gay quays upon the water-side, [51] have a common character—Joigny, Villeneuve, Saint Julien-du-Sault—yet tempt us to tarry at each and examine its relics, old glass and the like, of the Renaissance or the Middle Age, for the acquisition ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater
... simple meal, was quickly disposed of. Then followed a long, dispiriting wait, for a gibbous moon rode high in the sky and the guides refused to stir so long as it remained there. It was a still night; in the jungle no air was stirring, and darkness brought forth a torment of mosquitoes. As day died, the woods awoke to sounds of bird and insect ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach
... they had seen it nightly waxing until it lamped the facade of San Miniato, while the nightingales, in ecstasy among the cypress trees, gave full-throated applause. Then they had travelled together to London, and now saw the same dispirited moon, saving up her silver parsimoniously, sink in gibbous meanness ...
— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps
... of an inch in width, thickly scattered on all sides of the twigs as far as the growth of four preceeding years and rispect the three undersides only the uper side being neglected and the under side but thinly furnished; gibbous, a little declining, obtusely pointed, soft flexible, and the upper disk longitudinally marked with a slight channel; this disk is of a glossy deep green, the under one green tho paler and not glossy. this tree affords considerable quantities of a fine clear arromatic balsam ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al |
