Crossword-Solution: MOONRISES 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

She loved the great, restless harbor and the vast, misty sea beyond; she loved the tides, keeping their world-old tryst with the shore, and the gulls, and the croon of the waves, and the call of the winds in the fir woods at noon and even; she loved the moonrises and the sunsets, and the clear, calm nights when the stars seemed to have fallen into the water and to be a little dizzy from such a fall.

Bless you, my children; what endless vistas of good times are before you! What glorious landscape views and ocean moonrises, what freedom, what fresh, airy delight in young life and strength! Already one young doctor has departed with his bride on a wedding tour to Texas, each upon a bicycle.

True, there were some who, like Aunt Sarah Grundy, bitterly lamented the ample rooms and choice fare of their own establishments, and whose idea of a 'summer in the country' was limited to a couple of months at Saratoga or Newport, with a fresh toilette for each succeeding day; but even these knew that there were at both places green trees, limpid waters, whether of lake or ocean, and a wide horizon wherein to see sunsets, moonrises, and starlight.

Moonrises hurt him with their loveliness and he could sit for hours gazing at a white narcissus--much to his aunt's exasperation.

Dum always has descriptions of sunsets and moonrises and figures against the sky--how things look, in fact.