Adjective : a rayless cave. From Dictionary.com.
A few, however, throw off only b-particles, while some are "rayless", i.e. undergo transformation without the expulsion of high-speed. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Her white, rayless face was a mockery to the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
And stretched my chill hands tow'rd the rayless sky. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Next, the Vision! next the Morning, after rayless nights and days. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Magellan] Reference
Slowly the sad procession wound back to town through the rayless hemlock woods. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
Beyond our atmosphere the sun would appear a rayless orb of fire in the midst of a black concave. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Just before going into her last long sleep mother looked out into the rayless dark, and whispered. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Within the tomb no veiled and weeping sorrow sits, and in the rayless gloom is crouched no shuddering fear. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Her face did not please the mother; it seemed haughty in its sternness and immobility, and her eyes were rayless. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
They were both rayless and strangely — lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Soon a door slowly opened on its rusty hinges, and in the rayless darkness Durant entered the number containing his victim. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims] Reference
I have no doubt they could see me in that rayless obscurity, and they did not seem to have any fear of me apart from the light. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Here is the final glyph of the city, indicated by the column with the rayless globe, no longer accompanied by Linyaari figures. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Search]
The sun was setting red and rayless, with a play of many lights and tints, over the landscape up to the snow-line on the Sierra. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Still they persevere in tormenting the whole ship's crew, and regard us, when we pass, with all the hatred of race in their rayless eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
The peeping emperor looked upon him with awe, half afraid of the mysterious and penetrating shadows that reached forth out of his rayless eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
From rock-walled channels, drowned in rayless night. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 10: Before the Curfew] Reference
Hidden where the rose-flush drinks the rayless planet. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
A large brown disk paused rayless on the western hills. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
At first a rayless disk of fire, he brightened as he sped. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
The sun being rayless or seen through a haze denotes sickness to. From Wordnik.com. [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference
Where swung the lost and nether world, red-wrapped in rayless flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Yet - for life is oversad to dwell upon rayless darkness even in books. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
They were in a mood for no more speech but sat in this rayless cavern of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference
Leaned his rayless head, relinquished rein and footing, raised not a cry. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The white, rayless light of morning, seen when I was alone amid the peaks of the. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The sea was tossing; the sun rested, a red, rayless disk, on the sea-line in the west. From Wordnik.com. [Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion] Reference
It looked like a pale, rayless surface, and a deadly weight seemed to hang upon her limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
Above all she was the hidden light that suddenly shone upon Israel in his rayless darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference
The sky is black -- show me some rift in the clouds, for I am fainting in this rayless night. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand but Not the Heart] Reference
Then I saw the sun, red and rayless, blood-hued, descending on the horizon, as it were, the sacred. From Wordnik.com. [Balthasar and Other Works - 1909] Reference
The sun too had vanished; but that was no matter, for there was plenty of a certain still rayless light. From Wordnik.com. [At the Back of the North Wind] Reference
So there they stood, seven sorrowful little figures engulfed in the rayless despair of childhood and the bitterness of poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Little Citizens] Reference
It seemed as if those rayless sockets loved to look abroad, peradventure on the scenes of its former enjoyments and reminiscences. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
At length wind and snow had ceased and given place to a hard black frost, still and aching, and a sky of steel, and a red, rayless sun. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Amity] Reference
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