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Meanings of thin crescent in English

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Usage of thin crescent in English
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A thin crescent moon was out, silvering the river and the trees.
The Firefly of France
2
A huge, thin crescent, with the Sun off to one side behind it.
Brigands of the Moon
3
The Earth lighted into a huge, thin crescent with hooked cusps.
Brigands of the Moon
4
There's a thin crescent moon which means visibility is excellent!
The South African
5
But the moon was only a poor thin crescent.
At the Back of the North Wind
6
The planet pitched slowly into view, fully illuminated except for a thin crescent of darkness.
Genellan: planetfall
7
A thin crescent of a moon had risen.
A Love Story
8
Some had simply scratched the god's thin crescent moon; these lined the trail like countless tilting smiles.
The Bone Doll's Twin
9
In the west a thin crescent moon was sinking, following hard upon the footsteps of the sun.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
10
The sun will be reduced to a thin crescent this morning by the most dramatic eclipse in decades.
Radio NZ
11
From the thin crescent of a waning moon, a narrow path of light was glimmering on the water.
The Parts Men Play
12
Greco's Virgin surges forward, draped in the vibrant blue that inspired Picasso, surfing on a thin crescent moon.
The Irish Times
13
In fact the darkness was profound, and the moon was only a thin crescent just beginning its monthly life.
Robur the Conqueror
14
Then he saw that enormous, wafer- thin crescent reaching up the sky like a great bow placed beside the sun.
Childhood's End
15
Fortunately our new course a little ahead of Mars will give us a constant view of this thin crescent.
Pharaoh's Broker / Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Anot...
16
Above this band was the thin crescent of a closer moon, pale and bleached against the utter blackness beyond.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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