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
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
A faint flicker, dying out instantly into rayless gloom, was visible in the woman's sad eyes.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
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
And the sun looked cold and rayless, yet at night the stars shone out with extraordinary brilliancy.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables
