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

Over the edge of the mesa the yellow globe was bulging, rayless for the moment, round and full.

From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)

I could hear in my mother's room the boards creak as she rose every quarter hour and looked out into the rayless dark.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

That mandate from on high— The clarion call, That rung through earth and sky His rayless fall, In accents, "thou shalt die," again Proclaims man's dream of years—how vain!

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various

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 Bacon, Albion Fellows