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

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 Tuttle, Hudson

A faint flicker, dying out instantly into rayless gloom, was visible in the woman's sad eyes.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

Do you think they were any less happy, because they were way down in a dreamy, rayless coal-mine, where men work their souls away to give others warmth?

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.

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