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What it meant taking on was Franklin's raylessness, Franklin's obscurity, Franklin's dun-colour—could a wife escape the infection?

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

I knew that I had now fully recovered the use of my visual faculties—and yet it was dark—all dark—the intense and utter raylessness of the Night that endureth for evermore.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan