Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonface
Literary usage of Moonface
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handley Cross by Robert Smith Surtees (1903)
"Mr. moonface.—" But might not they eat more than a brace of horses a day ? ...
Mr. moonface.—" Now might they not eat three just as well as two, ..."
2. The New Sporting Magazine (1839)
"Here Mr. Martin moonface heaved a heavy sigh, and looked at the back of his ...
Mr. moonface then unfolded his brief, and proceeded to pick out the first ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1886)
"A youth of my acquaintance, named moonface— ... Poor little moonface walked away
delighted, and went in for smashing the Ring with such impetuosity that the ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"She drove one man nearly wild with her pretty little treachery; and the other
man abandoned her and came West to forget. moonface was that man. ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... burned in the loue of Maudlin moonface, that well nere he burned himselfe to
ashes. Mercury he cast his eloquence amongst them by horse-loades at once, ..."
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