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
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
Yet how should their voices pass the night, The silence that waits in the rayless void, If he hear not our music of light, And the thundrous song of our might?
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
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)
The rayless gloom was without any relief whatever; it was the enclosing sable of death itself; a pitchy oblivion that lay upon him like a solid weight, a thing obscene and hopeless.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
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