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
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
He knew that without character, without integrity, there is no wealth, and that below poverty, below bankruptcy, is the rayless abyss of repudiation.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
Do you think they were any less happy, because they were way down in a dreamy, rayless coal-mine, where men work their souls away to give others warmth?
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell
