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To get back to Shela, I opted for a donkey ride in the night, holding the waist of a young man who directed Lola (our donkey) with a pair of reins and a "tsk tsk tsk", along the path of a moon-bright sea, through a forest, and then into the quiet maze of the sleeping village.
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It was a silver white doe, moon-bright and dazzling, picking her way over the ground, still silent, and leaving no hoofprints in the fine powdering of snow.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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It was a silver white doe, moon-bright and dazzling, picking her way over the ground, still silent, and leaving no hoofprints in the fine powdering of snow.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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She wore an Irish sweater buttoned over a red flannel housecoat, her gray face smiling moon-bright.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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A cat tiptoed delicately across the cobbles, and another, on a doorstep, licked its moon-bright fur.
The White Mountains John Christopher 2003
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A cat tiptoed delicately across the cobbles, and another, on a doorstep, licked its moon-bright fur.
The White Mountains John Christopher 2003
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This puzzled Harry for a moment while he tried to guess what exactly they could be; what could make their skin shine moon-bright like that, or their white-gold hair fan out behind them without wind ... but then the music started, and Harry stopped worrying about them not being human - in fact, he stopped worrying about anything at all.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
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A face was looking down at him, featureless in the dark, silhouetted against the moon-bright sky.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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It was moon-bright in the room, and I could see his face when I rose on my elbow; he was staring upward, as though he could see beyond the heavy beams to the open night and the stars beyond.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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They would have music and dancing, and fans and ices to dispel the year's first real heat, but carnival filled the streets, too, in the moon-bright muggy night.
The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990
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