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

In Europe's face the star of Bethlehem, With its benignant splendor, shed its light; These but the groping nomads of old Shem, Lost in the meshes, of a rayless night.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt

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

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)

That mandate from on high— The clarion call, That rung through earth and sky His rayless fall, In accents, "thou shalt die," again Proclaims man's dream of years—how vain!

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various