rayless
Americanadjective
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dark; gloomy
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lacking rays
a rayless flower
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Origin of rayless
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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
Fallen are the Lords of Light, ere now the gaze Shrank from the coming of their fearful blaze; So changed are they, the undazzled eye may see Like pictured forms, each rayless deity.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
Weep, for it is human, when your loved ones pass the shadowy portals, remembering, however, that the spiritual sun on the other side will, by comparison, make your brightest day on earth a rayless night.”
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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
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