rayless
IPA: rˈeɪɫɪs
adjective
- Lacking rays.
- Lightless, gloomy.
- (botany) Lacking florets.
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Examples of "rayless" in Sentences
- Next, the Vision! next the Morning, after rayless nights and days,
- They were both rayless and strangely — lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
- 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.
- 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.
- A few, however, throw off only b-particles, while some are "rayless", i.e. undergo transformation without the expulsion of high-speed
- She bade them adieu blithely; but the thoughts engendered by the invitation stood before her as sorrowful and rayless ghosts which could not be laid.
- As the ends of the bars radiated into the annealing mist I saw the tentacles creep closer and ever closer to the rayless flame through which the mist flew.
- There he was, living or dead behind the mantle of that rayless night, and there he must remain at least until I could summon our fellow men to his assistance.
- And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences.
- Possessed of more than a cursory knowledge of astronomy, he took a sick man's pleasure in speculating as to the dwellers on the unseen worlds of those incredibly remote suns, to haunt whose houses of light, life came forth, a shy visitant, from the rayless crypts of matter.
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