quarter of the moon

The date is fixed on the second quarter of the moon.

The weather, which had hitherto been fine, changed with the last quarter of the moon.

There is usually sufficient light to cast a shadow only between the 1st and 3rd quarters of the Moon.

Five distinct peaks during this time were correlated with the first and third quarters of the moon.

A few grass-blades and the quarters of the moon.

The festival was celebrated on or immediately after the first quarter of the moon in the month of May.

Sometimes the only quarters between you and a rainstorm Are the quarters of the moon.

This occurs precisely at the turn of the high tide during the last quarter of the moon.

The date for the invasion, Saturday, 10 July, occurred in the second quarter of the moon.

Neap tides occur during the first and last quarters of the moon's phases.

It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.

It may be thought that this figure had its inception in the crescent shape of the quarters of the moon itself.

Public nights are held at the observatory each Friday, weather permitting, during the first and last quarters of the Moon.

A few clouds broke against the last quarter of the moon, whose uncertain rays scarcely pierced the darkness.

The Last Quarter of the Moon is the English-language title.

What is the name of the weaker tides that occur twice a month, during the first and second quarters of the moon's phases?

Last quarter of the moon.

Rates of spawning for anemonefish peak at approximately the first and third quarters of the moon.

In the morning and late afternoon around the last quarter of the moon, the egg-laden females descend from the terraces to the shoreline.

Spawning seems to coincide with incoming tides near the second (full), third, and fourth (new) quarters of the moon phase.

(Spring tides are the highest high tides, occurring during the second and fourth quarters of the Moon.

We ate for a quarter of the moon's course before we went back around the hard land to see what had become of Taku-Wakin.

The researchers found that during some quarters of the moon the number of blockages increases or decreases depending on the time of the year.

Not all your folk that can come have assembled yet, for the Last Quarter of the Moon was the day set; but most have already arrived.

And the huge cacti, that had swollen as we watched them, had long since burst and scattered their spores to the four quarters of the moon.