… the newes coming every moment of the growth of the fire; so as we were forced to begin to pack up our owne goods; and prepare for their removal; and did by moonshine (it being brave dry, and moonshine, and warm weather) carry much of my goods into the garden …

… O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry …

In mist or cloud on mast or shroud / It perch’d for vespers nine, / Whiles all the night thro’ fog smoke-white / Glimmer’d the white moon-shine.

So I came forth of the sea and sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine, where a passer-by found me and, carrying me to the his house, besought me of love-liesse; but I smote him on the head, so that he all but died; whereupon he carried me forth and sold me to the merchant from whom thou hadst me, …

… it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think? …

“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. … I know she’d have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”

My great grandpa was a blues lover / He'd be rockin' his moonshine to B.B. King and Jimmy Reed

… But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills—Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?

We forget what we have learned in the last 60 years. At university I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed.

Moonshine

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