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
Will this awful, rayless night never cease—this thick blackness, this horrible silence?
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Through adverse winds that threatened wreck, and nights Of rayless gloom, thou pointed ever to The North Star of his great ambition.
From Songs Ysame by Albion Fellows Bacon
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
Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
