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

Down, down—ever down—down through those roaring, jarring realms of space and of darkness, of black and rayless night.

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

As for Roland himself, the first gleam of light since his arrest a month ago now darted in upon the rayless gloom of his soul.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

I sit in darkness and behold no light; Over my soul the waves of agony Have gone, and left me in a rayless night.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various

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)