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
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
She rose at last and crawled slowly to her room, and abandoned herself to black, rayless hopelessness.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Through adverse winds that threatened wreck, and nights Of rayless gloom, thou pointed ever to The North Star of his great ambition.
From Songs Ysame by Albion Fellows Bacon