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
The death-cold mist, with ghostly fingers, Shrouds world and soul in rayless night.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
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
Then it dived, plunging straight downward to die unseen in some rayless cavern of the deeps.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
In Europe's face the star of Bethlehem, With its benignant splendor, shed its light; These but the groping nomads of old Shem, Lost in the meshes, of a rayless night.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt
