rayless
Americanadjective
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dark; gloomy
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lacking rays
a rayless flower
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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
Yet how should their voices pass the night, The silence that waits in the rayless void, If he hear not our music of light, And the thundrous song of our might?
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
A faint flicker, dying out instantly into rayless gloom, was visible in the woman's sad eyes.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
I sit in darkness and behold no light; Over my soul the waves of agony Have gone, and left me in a rayless night.
From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various
She rose at last and crawled slowly to her room, and abandoned herself to black, rayless hopelessness.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
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