rayless
Example Sentences
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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
The death-cold mist, with ghostly fingers, Shrouds world and soul in rayless night.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
Darkness came on, deep as that in the rayless abysses of the caverns under the lava, and still the snow fell thicker.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Fallen are the Lords of Light, ere now the gaze Shrank from the coming of their fearful blaze; So changed are they, the undazzled eye may see Like pictured forms, each rayless deity.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
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
