Sentence examples for down the moon from inspiring English sources

NEIL GAIMAN: I was going to ask you about your name when you called before: I thought it was a beautiful word that sounded like a name, and loved the stories of the witches of Thessaly (an area of Greece) who would call down the moon and do all manner of things.

We think of museums as being for old dead things, and the space program, at least the American space program, seems ready for its own diorama as the space shuttle shuts down, the Moon landings recede into ancient history, and space science is slowly dismantled by a prairie fire of budget cutting and wild cost overruns in the few programs that are left.

Hence the multitude believes that they draw down the moon.

But witchcraft was just the thing students wanted to hear a bit more about from the pagan philosopher, so Lecture 40 begins like this: "Since last time I referred to the Thessalian women, it is worth explaining the practice, why people think wizards draw down the moon [at an eclipse], and why ordinary people beat on bronze.

I went up there to watch the sunset and as soon as it was down, the moon instantly appeared.

Usually, if it's the full moon, I'll meditate and do all that and call down the moon, which means you draw down energy from the moon, because it's the celestial symbol of the goddess.

Borrowing, perhaps, from King's epic radiations, Obama had Ann Nixon Cooper move through her American decades, then burst into world history: A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

On 5 February 1971, Apollo 14 touched down on the moon.

On Sunday afternoon the lunar module touched down on the moon.

Aldrin, after taking a few steps, began to jump up and down on the moon.