Dark starless nights. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They wore away the night in starless gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Poems in response to Jewsbury] Reference
'Twould be a star in starless heaven, to show. From Wordnik.com. [Fires of Driftwood] Reference
Flame-broidered trance and starless cold confusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
It was a dark, starless night; very misty on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Ere he at length emerged beneath night's starless gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst] Reference
The August night outside was hot too and sultry and starless. From Wordnik.com. [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference
And every woman the same; by herself, starless and fragmentary. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
The rocks on the tank floor are the indigo of a starless night sky. From Wordnik.com. [‘What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage’] Reference
The moon had waned and the night was starless when the chimes of San. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
May none who read this be found starless or empty-handed in that day!. From Wordnik.com. [Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women] Reference
It shone out with dazzling brightness against the murky, starless sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
A sportsman lost his way in a pitiless storm on a black and starless night. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Chain them to the wheel of your ship, sail on thru the starless night alone. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Personality] Reference
Ten Hundred men stood faintly outlined in the purple pall of a starless night. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
The wavering sable line of its tree-tops spread a pall across the starless horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
On this moonless, cloudless, starless night, the porch light gleamed like a beacon. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
It was a starless, moonless night -- a night to prowl successfully about clotheslines. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
Then it faded into the West, and dusk came early, followed by a grey and starless night. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
That the Wantagh sky is starless and full-mooned renders the stage less arid than bogus. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Fishman: Human or Dancer: Killers Waver at Jones Beach] Reference
Night, black and starless, was upon us before we had penetrated half a mile into the woods. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Her eyes came back to focus, and she glanced at the black starless circle that was Quentin. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
Are the shadows deepening into starless night, or are they fleeing before the rising sun?. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference
Through the starless windows of that glorious dome they could see into the fathomless depths of. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
'It was that very night of summer, yet moonless and starless, that Orcs came on us at unawares. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
Way, far out into space, through a starless region, disconnecting it altogether from our system. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
That night passed: all nights — even the starless night before dissolution — must wear away. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Night was coming, pitchy and starless, doubly so for the two lost boys, adrift on the open ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Now the last glimmer of twilight has disappeared; night has closed in -- a dark and starless night. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
At night the moon hung in the starless sky like a globe of blood, and day by day the dimness of the air increased. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
I am sure it would be the Lament: it is touched with the sorrow of the starless night on a rain-drummed, wailing sea. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
It flamed out into green darkness, vanished, and Bart fell through what seemed to be a bottomless chasm of starless night. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
Judging from last night's glitterless, starless and soulless Globes press conference, the message couldn't have registered any louder. From Wordnik.com. [No Glitter, No Drama, No Soul] Reference
He dives into the inky depths of her large, lovely eyes — eyes as black as onyx, as black as a starless night, as black as eternity. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Bird] Reference
Giving up its cold, the sky in starless black, like an old, desperate king, squats and mumbles over the hard tangle of field and fence. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Window] Reference
A half moon hung in the starless sky likea half-eaten cheesecake, and Imogene gazed at it, trying to see the cake plate as half full. From Wordnik.com. [Tooth Decay] Reference
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