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

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 Bacon, Albion Fellows

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)

Will this awful, rayless night never cease—this thick blackness, this horrible silence?

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

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