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  • They each take a 9V battery, and as long as the battery is good they emit an always-on 'moonglow' beam which is just bright enough to spot.

    Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions 2010

  • The moonglow kept away complete darkness, but it was well into the night and we were out on the Badwater salt with no other humans for miles around.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • That same wind sundered the clouds to reveal a swollen, pocked moon, and a shaft of nacreous moonglow doused the ground before my feet.

    Shadow Walker Ricardo Federico 2011

  • The moonglow kept away complete darkness, but it was well into the night and we were out on the Badwater salt with no other humans for miles around.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Kids Prefer Cheese: It must have been moonglow ....

    It must have been moonglow.... 2008

  • It was vast and black far off, and nearer shore the surface was scaly with liquefied moonglow and the surf phosphorescent from hotel spotlights.

    Beard 2010

  • Above, moonglow but no moon lit a sector of sky, and in others the stars lay out in their millions.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Unfortunately, it's growth has been anemic over the years, and it's yet to flower. sigh The moonglow, on the other hand, is growing at a prodigious rate and has flowered the past two seasons, but not produced any fruit due to lack of a pollinator.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • I'm seriously toying with the idea of trying a graft of branches from the warren to the moonglow.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • But more silver-sharp than fruit the moonglow welters,

    Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising 2009

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  • "I want to sleep in your moonglow

    In my mind your smile I keep

    Head over heels I go

    Like a dream from a peaceful sleep

    This time I know I'm in deep."

    --"Miracle to Me" by the Black Crowes

    January 12, 2007