rayless
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I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that too.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Over the edge of the mesa the yellow globe was bulging, rayless for the moment, round and full.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
Through adverse winds that threatened wreck, and nights Of rayless gloom, thou pointed ever to The North Star of his great ambition.
From Songs Ysame by Albion Fellows Bacon
In Europe's face the star of Bethlehem, With its benignant splendor, shed its light; These but the groping nomads of old Shem, Lost in the meshes, of a rayless night.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
I could hear in my mother's room the boards creak as she rose every quarter hour and looked out into the rayless dark.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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