insteeped

Updated: May 24, 2025

The darkness was complete. and rendered even more so by the rays from the stars. It was "that blackness" in which the lunar nights are insteeped, which last three hundred and fifty-four hours and a half at each point of the disc, a long night resulting from the equality of the translatory and rotary movements of the moon.

Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon