Full-moon Sentence Examples

Jeff gave Dean a smile as big as a full moon.

When P =I The Full Moon Is On The 21St Of March, And The New Moon On The 8Th (21 13 =8), Therefore The Moon'S Age On The 1St Of March (Which Is The Same As On The 1St Of January) Is Twentythree Days; The Epact Of The Year Is Consequently Twenty Three.

The Intercalary Month, Veadar, Is Introduced In Embolismic Years In Order That Passover, The 15Th Day Of Nisan, May Be Kept At Its Proper Season, Which Is The Full Moon Of The Vernal Equinox, Or That Which Takes Place After The Sun Has Entered The Sign Aries.

His first important astronomical work was a careful investigation of the libration of the moon (Kosmographische Nachrichten, Nuremberg, 1750), and his chart of the full moon (published in 1775) was unsurpassed for half a century.

An annual fair is held at Allahabad at the confluence of the streams on the occasion of the great bathing festival at the full moon of the Hindu month of Magh.

Its motion of 8.7" per year would carry it over a portion of the sky equal to the diameter of the full moon in about two centuries.

A full-moon face is much admired, and a dark complexion termed narnak (salt) is the highest native idea of beauty.

It is said to have been broad moonlight on the full moon of the month of July, when the young chief, with Channa as his sole companion, leaving his father's home, his wealth and social position, his wife and child behind him, went out into the wilderness to become a penniless and despised student, and a homeless wanderer.

Ibn Jubair mentions a curious superstition of the Meccans, who believed that the water rose in the shaft at the full moon of the month Shaban.

The omra was performed by crowds from day to day, especially at new and full moon.

These dwell chiefly in the moon, and are particularly active at full moon.

Near the vernal equinox the case is reversed, the interval between two risings of the nearly full moon being at its maximum, and between two settings at its minimum.

Among his results was that during the progressive phases from before the first quarter till the full moon the heat received increases in a much greater proportion than the light, from which it followed that the former was composed mainly of heat radiated from the moon itself in consequence of the temperature which it assumed under the sun's rays.

This has been measured for the full moon by various investigators, but the results are not as accordant as could be desired.

Then you should know the only way to destroy a vampire is with a wooden stake to the heart...unless of course, it is the full moon and you happen upon a werewolf.

The two vampires always stayed in the night of the full moon to assure safety from their mortal enemies; werewolves.

Every year, the full moon in January is the Wolf Moon and there is a three day festival that all werewolves attend… kind of our high holiday.

Sarah made an early dinner, and the three vampires prepared for the full moon.

This full moon will find the moon conjunct the planet Neptune, which will give energy to that planet.

Two events co-incided with rising new moon springs and the most recent with rising full moon springs.

Out of the night, When the full moon is bright, comes the horseman known as Zorro.

A full moon lit up the whole area quite plainly.

Held during the sixth full moon of the lunar calendar, it involves chanting, sermons and a candlelit procession to the wat.

MacDowall (86) and others have advanced evidence in favour of the view that thunderstorms are most frequent near new moon and fewest near full moon.

Marti, in his stimulating work Religion des A.T., pp. 5, 72, advocates the exclusive reference of the word Sabbath to the full moon until the time of Ezekiel on the basis of Meinhold's arguments in Sabbat u.

Her festival fell on the full moon of the first month (March 15), and was held at the grove of the goddess at the first milestone on the Via Flaminia.

This view, however, has not met with general acceptance, on the ground that, in Semitic mythology, the moon is always a male divinity; and that the full moon and crescent, found as attributes of Astarte, are due to a misinterpretation of the sun's disk and cow's horns of Isis, the result of the dependence of Syrian religious art upon Egypt.

It was dark in the room especially where they were sitting on the sofa, but through the big windows the silvery light of the full moon fell on the floor.

Toward midnight the voices began to subside, a cock crowed, the full moon began to show from behind the lime trees, a fresh white dewy mist began to rise, and stillness reigned over the village and the house.

High up in the light sky hung the full moon.

Around 30 BC she began to rouse only on the night of the full moon.

The albums finest standout track is ' Full Moon ', simply a perfect metal song !

The witching hour falls on midnight on the night of a full moon.

The universe had one final miracle to reveal; the birth of a full moon from the womb of mother Earth.

Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes is a Caldecott Award winner about a curious kitty who thinks the moon is a saucer of milk.

A longer exposure is recommended to capture a full moon because a half or quarter-moon exudes less light than a full moon.

For instance, photographing a full moon will lend more available light, but a full moon appears flat in comparison to the textured shadows visible during other phases of the moon.

The full moon occurring in late May or early June has passed.

Lynne later went on to produce the Tom Petty solo albums Full Moon Fever, Into the Great Wide Open, and Highway Companion and co-wrote the hits I Won't Back Down and Runnin' Down a Dream.

The triple moon goddess symbol is comprised of two crescent moons and a full moon to represent the three aspects of the goddess through the waxing and waning of the moon.

It's a black t shirt that features three wolves howling at a full moon.

A lunar month is the time it takes to pass from one full moon to the next - roughly 29.5 days.

According to myth, they have the ability to change shape from human beings into anthropomorphic wolves whenever there is a full moon.

In some cultures, being born during the full moon was a cause for concern, as was being born on December 24th or 25th.

How about a fairy rushing toward a full moon on a trail of starry fairy dust?

She walked down the beach opposite the party, gaze alternating between the ocean at her feet and the full moon climbing into the sky.

The Deans had utilized the site a half dozen times, including, in December, the council-sponsored full moon nighttime outing, followed by a dip in the town's hot spring pool.

The full moon had always been a time that Sarah and Jackson spent together.

Yes, I would have to go away at the full moon.

He remembered that her phone went straight to voicemail the morning after the full moon.

He thought about the next full moon and wondered how they would deal with it.

It was a wolf howling at the full moon.

You know, the full moon is two days before Halloween this month.

This is where you could stay during the full moon.

She quietly said, "I'm sorry, I wanted to get through the next full moon before telling you."

Every year, the full moon in January is the Wolf Moon and there is a three day festival that all werewolves attend… kind of our high holiday.

We've been talking about the full moon.

They were determined to enjoy every minute of easiness before dealing with the reality of the full moon.

I will never be close enough to hurt you at the full moon again.

Everyone seemed happy to ignore the discussion about the full moon.

Not unless I catch him at the full moon.

She had been planning to pay Elisabeth a surprise visit before the November full moon anyway.

Did Elisabeth tell you we spent the last full moon together?

The full moon is in six days.

Sarah was determined to finish it before Elisabeth left for the full moon.

When they were about half way through the game he asked, "Do you think she will ever agree to stay for the full moon again?"

Perhaps I could go for the festivities then come back here before the full moon.

Wait. How did she morph into a wolf, it's not even close to a full moon?

Thus the old Hindus chose the new and the full moon as days of sacrifice; the eve.

That full moon as well as new moon had a religious significance among the ancient Hebrews seems to follow from the fact that, when the great agricultural feasts were fixed to set days, the full moon was chosen.

If the 15th always was full moon day, the 7th would coincide well with half moon, but the 21st and 28th would fall away considerably from the moon's phases.

The principal other ceremonies of this class are the new and full moon offerings, the oblations made at the commencement of the three seasons, the offering of first-fruits, the animal sacrifice, and the Agnihotra, or daily morning and evening oblation of milk, which, however, is also included amongst the grihya, or domestic rites, as having to be performed daily on the domestic fire by the householder who keeps no regular set of sacrificial fires.

The general coincidence of the Sabbath or seventh day with the easily recognized first quarter and full moon established its sacred character as lunar as well as planetary.

Briefly, it may be explained here that Easter day is the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox.

With the splendour of the full moon falling upon him, his hand clasping his Shakespeare, and looking, as we are told, almost unearthly in the majestic beauty of his old age, Tennyson passed away at Aldworth on the night of the 6th of October 1892.

The Olympic games, so famous in Greek history, were celebrated once every four years, between the new and full moon first following the summer solstice, on the small plain named Olympia in Elis, which was bounded on one side by the river Alpheus, on another by the small tributary stream the Cladeus, and on the other two sides by mountains.

Before the introduction of the Metonic cycle, the Olympic year began sometimes with the full moon which followed, at other times with that which preceded the summer solstice, because the year sometimes contained 384 days instead of 354.

The Passover was kept at the full moon of the lunar month Nisan, the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; the Paschal lambs were slain on the afternoon of the, 4th Nisan, and the Passover was eaten after sunset the same day - which, however, as the Jewish day began at sunset, was by their reckoning the early hours of the r 5th Nisan; the first fruits (of the barley harvest) were solemnly offered on the 16th.

If the Paschal full moon was, as in later Christian times, the first after the spring equinox, the difficulty would be reduced to the question on what day the equinox was reckoned.

But as it is quite inconceivable that the Jews of the Dispersion should not have known beforehand at what full moon they were to present themselves at Jerusalem for the Passover, it must be assumed as true in fact, whether or no it was true in theory, that the old empirical methods must have been qualified, at least partially, by permanent, that is in effect by astronomical rules.

In Order To Terminate Dissensions, Which Produced Both Scandal And Schism In The Church, The Council Of Nicaea, Which Was Held In The Year 325, Ordained That The Celebration Of Easter Should Thenceforth Always Take Place On The Sunday Which Immediately Follows The Full Moon That Happens Upon, Or Next After, The Day Of The Vernal Equinox.

Sometimes a misunderstanding has arisen from not observing that this regulation is to be construed according to the tabular full moon as determined from the epact, and not by the true full moon, which, in general, occurs one or two days earlier.

It is accordingly quite possible that a full moon may arrive after the true equinox, and yet precede the 21st of March.

The object was about the apparent size (angular diameter) of the full moon.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Ever since then, Easter Day has been celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox.

The following is a diagram showing a major and minor lunar standstill of the Full Moon.

A local wag might even compose a poem or song about it, possibly comparing the enemy to a full moon.

Unfortunately Prince Rupert is cursed and becomes a werewolf every full moon.