half-mooning

Updated: June 6, 2025

From the evidence extant one gathers that for the four years of his life he spent on Good Friday Island Ethan Pratt lived in the rear room of a two-room house of frame standing on a beach with a little village about it, a jungle behind it, a river half-mooning it and a lagoon before it. In the rear room he bedded and baited himself.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - From Place to Place