Came up the lightless stairs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
lightless stars `visible' only to radio antennae. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Now he was in another of the lightless rabbit-burrows. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
I wept no friv'lous weeping when I closed her lightless eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
He was in a lightless city, with ghostly buildings and catwalks. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
For five billion years it had been abandoned, airless, lightless. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
As suddenly as a shutter falling, the circle was clear and lightless. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
That's about a third of the total lightless inhabitants on the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Let There Be Light] Reference
That\'s about a third of the total lightless inhabitants on the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Let There Be Light] Reference
On either side was the same ugly huddle of houses, lightless and silent. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion Game]
Would they spend the rest of their lives locked away in lightless dungeons?. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Across town, in the lightless Zebra Room, my father was trying to stay awake. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The window at the other end of the bridge was tightly shuttered and lightless. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
The man from the lightless in the backseat: I am glad to be here with you too. From Wordnik.com. [THE BASTARDS ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE WORLD OF AIR INSIDE YOUR LUNGS SEPARATE FROM THE AIR OUTSIDE YOUR LUNGS] Reference
The whole lightless face of the old house stared at him silently, without rebuke. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
One hour, two hours, three hours: how many had they passed in this lightless hole?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Either their occupants had fled or they huddled, lightless and silent, inside them. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Awhile, and even this had gone, and I was wrapped in an impalpable, lightless gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
Somewhere out there was the lightless gap of Puget Sound, obscured by rolling clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
These are the thoughts that are left behind in the lightless hollow of a Tibetan tunnel. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
Yet Foyle had existed in that lightless cage for five months, twenty days and four hours. From Wordnik.com. [Tiger! Tiger!]
Yet Foyle had existed in this lightless coffin for five months, twenty days, and four hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
I realized it was not now totally lightless, for there was a faint glow coming from somewhere in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
The airless, lightless houses are most unsavoury, and in times of sickness and childbirth this is intensified. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Dale took out the Dunhill lighter that Clare had given him, flicked it on, and peered into the lightless hole. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
He pictures himself pulling up slowly to the house and being shocked to find it lightless, scentless, for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Red Left Hand] Reference
K'shar knew that the darkvision came from generations of his ancestors living in lightless underground caverns. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The hall was a lightless void except for widely separated red eyes where embers still glowed on the twin hearths. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
I tiptoe down the hall, open a door and squeeze into the room, which is as lightless as the inside of a minnow bucket. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota Menage] Reference
After he had come through the second door, he entered a lightless room that gave an impression of immense spaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
I'm thinking of the song "This Abyss," which has a line, This abyss, this lightless void, this abyss of world destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Merritt, Snicket and the 'Tragic Treasury'] Reference
I looked up, away from her belly, as the train began to drop into a lightless station, just in the time to see her crying. From Wordnik.com. [Inner City] Reference
Instead of falling into an ebony abyss of lightless gloom, he would descend only a few fathoms and then could walk to shore. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
He knew she was near because during the past few lightless days, their respective senses of smell and hearing had grown acute. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
Not since the lightless passages of Moria had Frodo or Sam known such darkness, and if possible here it was deeper and denser. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
My heart stood still at that thought, and squeezed at the idea of her in a tiny, lightless room, waiting to die in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
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