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

Down, down—ever down—down through those roaring, jarring realms of space and of darkness, of black and rayless night.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

The sun had set, covered by a misty veil, contrasting with its habitual sumptuous purple; its rayless pallor was the sign of an extraordinary storm.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne

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)

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 Stables, Gordon