moon beam

See also: moon-beam and moonbeam

English

Noun

moon beam (plural moon beams)

1. Alternative form of moonbeam.
   • 1831, C[harles] S[amuel] Stewart, “Letter III. Occupation and Amusements.”, in A Visit to the South Seas, in the U. S. Ship Vincennes, During the Years 1829 and 1830; with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, volume I, New York, N.Y.: John P. Haven, […], page 27:

     Our ships careering through and upon the heaving billows, dashing beds of snowy foam far around, and leaving a broad wake behind, as they sank and rose with the swellings of the sea, and then plunged again furiously on their way—the bright gleaming in the moon beams of the little sail out, while the naked spars above, in the deep rolls of the vessel, swept widely and swiftly in black and clearly defined lines against the sky—all combined in forming a glorious sight for the eye of an enthusiast; […]

   • 1966, Otta F[lora] Swire, The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends, Edinburgh, London: Oliver & Boyd, page 51:

     He said it was a most lovely thing to watch this silver dance, lit by the moon beams and played for by a little barefoot Lewis boy who had borrowed his grandfather’s fiddle and slipped away to the sea.

   • 2013, Allan Sankirtan, “My Sweet Summer Muse”, in The Dreams of Our Dreaming, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN:

     Comes Winter again, with its white, foggy shroud, as the sun presses low, mantled heavy with cloud, but on mountain tops bare, I oft sense your grace, shadows silver, in silence, lit by moon beams, your face.