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

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

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

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 Roby, John

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)