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Ever since Colonel Lindbergh flew one across the Atlantic in 1927, most U. S. aeronautical engineers have been developing air-cooled, radial engines with cylinders raying out like huge wheel-spokes around a short, chunky crankshaft.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was looking around the hem to see if the quilt maker had stitched in her initials, but the edges were all raying away.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

The machine buzzed the smoke once, too high for the Apaches to trust raying its blades.

From The Defiant Agents by Norton, Andre

Couldst thou but see how thou appearest to me, what a wonderful form penetrates thy shape, and everywhere is raying towards me, thou wouldst not fear age.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

At regular intervals, raying out from the centre, books were placed upon the table—small, sober books bound in calf.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas