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

Yet how should their voices pass the night, The silence that waits in the rayless void, If he hear not our music of light, And the thundrous song of our might?

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

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

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

I sit in darkness and behold no light; Over my soul the waves of agony Have gone, and left me in a rayless night.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various