rayless
Americanadjective
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dark; gloomy
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lacking rays
a rayless flower
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Origin of 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
Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
I sit in darkness and behold no light; Over my soul the waves of agony Have gone, and left me in a rayless night.
From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various
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
As for Roland himself, the first gleam of light since his arrest a month ago now darted in upon the rayless gloom of his soul.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
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