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

Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

Then it dived, plunging straight downward to die unseen in some rayless cavern of the deeps.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Weep, for it is human, when your loved ones pass the shadowy portals, remembering, however, that the spiritual sun on the other side will, by comparison, make your brightest day on earth a rayless night.”

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson