rayless
Americanadjective
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dark; gloomy
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lacking rays
a rayless flower
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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
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 Tuttle, Hudson
The death-cold mist, with ghostly fingers, Shrouds world and soul in rayless night.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
Over the edge of the mesa the yellow globe was bulging, rayless for the moment, round and full.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)
I despised myself for having been pleased for a moment, like a child, with toys and rattles, and once more sunk down, a prey to the darkest and most rayless despondency.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
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