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

Will this awful, rayless night never cease—this thick blackness, this horrible silence?

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

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)

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 Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

The death-cold mist, with ghostly fingers, Shrouds world and soul in rayless night.

From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall