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

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

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)

And the sun looked cold and rayless, yet at night the stars shone out with extraordinary brilliancy.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

The sun had set, covered by a misty veil, contrasting with its habitual sumptuous purple; its rayless pallor was the sign of an extraordinary storm.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne