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
Do you think they were any less happy, because they were way down in a dreamy, rayless coal-mine, where men work their souls away to give others warmth?
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell
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
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
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
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