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
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)
And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
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 Smith, Clark Ashton
She rose at last and crawled slowly to her room, and abandoned herself to black, rayless hopelessness.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin
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