The two companions trudged across the moonlit plain for half an hour in full silence.
When they were over, the Chechen side invited Mr. Lebed and his entire entourage to spend the night on the moonlit plains.
The air was still, sharp and cold, and the Clear Air Turbulence sat, partly submerged in its own snowdrift, across the white and moonlit plain.
She continued picturing the locomotive, rushing across a chimeric rendition of the steppe, at first just like the moonlit plain outside, then increasingly the landscape of a dream.
What he got was an empty stretch of moonlit plain to the south, from a pickup on one of the steel towers the veldbeest herders used.
The cramped wheelhouse of the lobster boat was cozy and relatively warm; beyond, the moonlit plain of the sea was rising in light swells.
The four members of The Band sat up and stared straight ahead, over the moonlit plain.
Turning onto her stomach, Katie propped her hands under her chin and looked across the moonlit plain.
Now they were a departing edge, and far below were the moonlit plains.
Below her, on the moonlit plain were the tents of the Gothir, erected in five lines of twenty, neat and rectangular, evenly spaced.