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
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
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
