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
In Europe's face the star of Bethlehem, With its benignant splendor, shed its light; These but the groping nomads of old Shem, Lost in the meshes, of a rayless night.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
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
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
A faint flicker, dying out instantly into rayless gloom, was visible in the woman's sad eyes.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
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