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

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

And the sun looked cold and rayless, yet at night the stars shone out with extraordinary brilliancy.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Yet how should their voices pass the night, The silence that waits in the rayless void, If he hear not our music of light, And the thundrous song of our might?

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton