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 Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
Would that yon chill and rayless dwelling Had shut me out, and all mine hated sorrow, Far from the gaze, the cold, unpitying gaze, Alike of stranger and of friend!
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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