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"Does the Parsoness mean to have it sung in the school?" "It might be less dangerous than 'the fox went out one moonshiny night," said their mother, anxious to turn the conversation. "Mr. Parsons brought Mr.
Could not we get up a party, Miss Stuart, an evening-party, to see a little bit of sunlight struck out, on a moonshiny night, too?" "In my lectures on chemistry," began Mr. Jasper. He was interrupted by Mr. Stuart. "You will have to write your lectures over again. Mr. Desmond has introduced such new ideas upon chemistry that he will give you a chance for a new course."
The fault of Transformation is that the element of the unreal is pushed too far, and that the book is neither positively of one category nor of another. His "moonshiny romance," he calls it in a letter; and, in truth, the lunar element is a little too pervasive.
Yes, perhaps that was ambrosia instead of molasses that the gray grasshopper dropped from his lips." "Oh, don't tell any more!" laughed both Willie and Bessie. "We won't catch another grasshopper." Roman You see the sun every bright day, don't you? And you see the moon every moonshiny night. Now, listen, and I'll tell you a story about their mother.
The doctrine that a minister is to maintain some ethereal, unearthly station, where, wrapt in divine contemplation, he is to regard with indifference the actual struggles and realities of life, is a sickly species of sentimentalism, the growth of modern refinement, and altogether too moonshiny to have been comprehended by our stout-hearted and very practical fathers.
Five years ago I was on a raft as big as this, and right along here it was a bright moonshiny night, and I was on watch and boss of the stabboard oar forrard, and one of my pards was a man named Dick Allbright, and he come along to where I was sitting, forrard gaping and stretching, he was and stooped down on the edge of the raft and washed his face in the river, and come and set down by me and got out his pipe, and had just got it filled, when he looks up and says
I suppose the answer to my criticism is that this is allegorical, symbolic, ideal; but we feel that it symbolises nothing substantial, and that the truth whatever it may be that it illustrates, is as moonshiny, to use Hawthorne's own expression, as the allegory itself.
Atwater as Julia's gentleness had done for Noble, but how much both Julia and Noble had done was not revealed in full until the next evening. That was a warm and moonshiny night of air unusually dry, and yet Florence sneezed frequently as she sat upon the "side porch" at the house of her Great-Aunt Carrie and her Great-Uncle Joseph.
But I've learned what love is that there is such a thing and that it's valuable. Yes, Fred, I've got the taste for that wine the habit of it. Could I go back to water or milk?" "Spoiled baby that's the whole story. If you had a nursery full of children or did the heavy housework you'd never think of these foolish moonshiny things." "Yet you say you love!"
The very instinct of a sacred sorrow seems to forbid that our beautiful, our glorified ones should stoop lower than even to the medium of their cast-off bodies, to juggle, and rap, and squeak, and perform mountebank tricks with tables and chairs; to recite over in weary sameness harmless truisms, which we were wise enough to say for ourselves; to trifle, and banter, and jest, or to lead us through endless moonshiny mazes.
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