1832 T. Carlyle (1839) III. 148 A world of blackest gloom, with sun-gleams, and pale tearful moon-gleams.
1834 July 205 What heart can wish for more, Than the breeze abeam, the merry moon-gleam, And a lass that we love ashore!
1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night in 26 Apr. 262/2 With tinted moongleams slanting here and there.
1915 J. Galsworthy xxxvi. 328 It was wonderfully lonely..with the moongleams slipping through the willow boughs.