(n.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In December this year the BBC is doing a three-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.
(2) My 10 Victorian novels that are as good as, or better than, anything Dickens wrote: Middlemarch, George Eliot Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait of a Lady, Henry James North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell • John Sutherland's The Dickens Dictionary (Icon, £9.99) is published tomorrow at 11.15am
(3) One newspaper noted sombrely that Jefferies had also conducted a lesson on the "Victorian murder novel", The Moonstone .
Sunset
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sunsetting
Example Sentences:
(1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
(3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
(5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
(6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
(7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
(9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
(10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
(11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
(12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
(13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
(14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
(16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
(19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
(20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.