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
And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Afterward the stars would come forth, golden, globular, and rayless, while the same unchanged southerly wind would get a damp sharpness that made at least a light wrap needful if one remained out of doors.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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
The death-cold mist, with ghostly fingers, Shrouds world and soul in rayless night.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
