A pale crescent, like an eyelid on the darkness.

He looked upon the pale crescent of sand with a kind of dull horror.

Next, look to your right, and in the imagined darkness of night, see the pale crescent of the new moon rising.

Next look to your left and there see the old moon setting, again a pale crescent, mirror image of the new moon.

He pointed east, where a pale crescent hung high in the sky: a vagabond moon.

A ghostly flash, the pale crescent of a face in semi-profile.

The moon had risen, a pale crescent that hung above the ring of torches.

The moon was a low, pale crescent above one of the smaller peaks, far to his right.

He looked higher and saw the pale crescent of a moon.

He looked at a clear sky dotted with stars, the pale crescents of two moons close to the horizon.