But the moon was only a poor thin crescent.

They saw now the thinnest possible crescent of the new Earth.

White moonlight outlined everything, while the red moon was a thin crescent.

A thin crescent of light peered around the pipe, where it fitted into the floor.

The thin crescent of the moon offered little light, but his eyes were keen.

A last thin crescent of fiery red marked the place where the sun had sunk.

It was a huge, thin crescent when he first saw it, far too large for the eye to take in at a single glance.

Even a decent thin crescent would have been better, she felt.

Even if the thin crescent of a new moon had escaped his notice, it could not have grown to this in a few hours.

Even Jupiter showed up only as a thin, tiny crescent near the solar point of light.