He passed word to a satellite in a cloak that he would be pleased were I to land, and I told my guide to tell him I would be pleased to alight from my ramshackle tub and make his portrait, and he gently inclined his head, so I descended from my barge roof, and stood opposite him on the sand and drew, and after half-an-hour or so he saw that I was tired standing and sent for a seat, but I of course could not change my point of view, and no doubt his followers wondered why I bothered standing in the sun when I might have easily sat in the shade and done nothing.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Unhappy is that man, old or young, who hath not a sweetheart to share with him the poetic grace of our satellite!
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The attraction which the earth exerts upon the moon is stronger on the near side and weaker on the far side of our satellite than at its center, and this difference of attraction tends to warp the moon, as is illustrated in Fig.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock