Example Sentences

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"He walked around the corner and saw the Embassy, every light on, the only building on the street with a bulb burning, a beamless lighthouse with all its light shining in on itself."

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dim sadness hung upon his brow;   Fix'd was his beamless eye: His face was like the moon-light bow   Upon a win'try sky.

From Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Baillie, Joanna

The sun Would rise as beamless on my darkened days, Night proffer the same torments.

From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Much I dislike the beamless mind, Whose earthly vision, unrefined, Nature has never formed to see The beauties of simplicity!

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis