rayless

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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

The sun had passed the zenith, and rayless, red, and smoky, as if veiled by haze, looked at that struggle.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

I despised myself for having been pleased for a moment, like a child, with toys and rattles, and once more sunk down, a prey to the darkest and most rayless despondency.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Fallen are the Lords of Light, ere now the gaze Shrank from the coming of their fearful blaze; So changed are they, the undazzled eye may see Like pictured forms, each rayless deity.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa

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