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
Afterward the stars would come forth, golden, globular, and rayless, while the same unchanged southerly wind would get a damp sharpness that made at least a light wrap needful if one remained out of doors.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
As for Roland himself, the first gleam of light since his arrest a month ago now darted in upon the rayless gloom of his soul.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
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
Weep, for it is human, when your loved ones pass the shadowy portals, remembering, however, that the spiritual sun on the other side will, by comparison, make your brightest day on earth a rayless night.”
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
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