A slim crescent of teeth appeared in the blur of her face, then vanished.

The moon was only the slimmest crescent.

A slim crescent of moon gleamed in the west, a sickle of light that in no way dimmed the cold flame of the brilliant stars.

As among other peoples who count by lunations, the Hebrew month begins when the moon's slim crescent is first visible in the evening twilight.

A slim crescent of a Moon rode past scudding silvery clouds.

Sometimes they were disks, sometimes half-circles, sometimes slim crescents.

Zahed produced a pair of binoculars, a gift from one of the Peace Enforcers, and they took turns studying the slim crescent of the moon.

But he shifted the stone a couple of inches until a slim crescent of mundane grey sky was visible.

His right hand sought out the headset and he dragged the slim grey crescent over his head, feeding the dark end-beads into his ears.

A slim crescent of Earth showed, more than enough to let them orient themselves, and the missiles were plainly moving east, toward China.