star-shot

And the title so apt as the line of Weasels crawled their way across the Martian plain through the star-shot darkness.

Archive 2008-03-01 Paul 2008

Buccari looked out into space, at star-shot blackness.

Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

Massaged my side, dropped my head back, and looked up at the star-shot sky.

The Dangerous Hour Muller, Marcia 2004

The sky was star-shot, with a sliver of new moon — not much light pollution this far from the towns that lined the 101 corridor.

The Dangerous Hour Muller, Marcia 2004

Then raw panic clutched him and, convulsively, he emptied his entire magazine into the dazzling, star-shot night.

Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

They disembarked the Tula Point tube station in gauzy, star-shot Overhead, Wolfbane's two moons, Mutt and Jeff, chased other in slow-motion arabesques; at the end of the station's form, a single lamp glowed against chrome railings.

Delta Search Shatner, William 1997

Spanish shot, which are of four sorts: pike-shot, star-shot, chain-shot, and link-shot, all admirably contrived, as well for the destruction of the masts and rigging of ships, as for sweeping the decks of their men.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

And they fought and rolled until Morgan felt something hard under his oppressed back, and groped for it in the star-shot agony of sinewy fingers choking out his life.

Trail's End George W. Ogden

Out of the star-shot dusk emerged the speeding whiteness of Julia.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

The sweet, fresh air, the star-shot void above, acted as a powerful tonic to his shattered hopes and overwrought nerves.

The Mad King 1914