rayless
Americanadjective
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dark; gloomy
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lacking rays
a rayless flower
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Etymology
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
And the sun looked cold and rayless, yet at night the stars shone out with extraordinary brilliancy.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables
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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Will this awful, rayless night never cease—this thick blackness, this horrible silence?
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Down, down—ever down—down through those roaring, jarring realms of space and of darkness, of black and rayless night.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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