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

TRIMORPHÆ̀A. Like § 1, but a series of filiform rayless pistillate flowers within the outer row of ray-flowers; biennial or sometimes perennial.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall

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

Over the edge of the mesa the yellow globe was bulging, rayless for the moment, round and full.

From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)