| 单词 | lightless |
| 例句 | Odin took Hel down to the lightless world, and he showed her the immense hall in which she would receive her subjects, and watched as she named her possessions. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He sees a submarine asleep in the lightless depths of the Atlantic; Jutta presses her face to a porthole and breathes on the glass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “You pale grub! You lightless lightning bug! The cauldron of Arawn’s Cauldron-Born!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z For Taran, the horror beating in him like black wings came not from the livid features of the Cauldron warriors or their lightless eyes but from their ghostly silence. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The lightless elevator swayed back and forth as it ascended, turning the bby’s stomach sour with nausea; a smell like burnt oil invaded his senses, making him feel worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It began to drizzle and darkness came early in the lightless building. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Teresa?” he finally asked through the barred window of the lightless cell. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His eyes were still lightless, I saw, vacant, the way I had found them when I had pulled him out of the bathtub. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One hour, two hours, three hours: how many had they passed in this lightless hole? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He darted furtive, guilty glances back as he fled in defeat, afraid the old woman might now start following him, and he welcomed the concealing shelter of the drizzling, drifting, lightless, nearly opaque gloom. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Not since the lightless passages of Moria had Frodo or Sam known such darkness, and if possible here it was deeper and denser. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It’s dark around me, but dark isn’t the word for it, more like lightless. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Either he must go down the hill into the desert lands and lightless cities of the dead, or he must step across the wall back into life, where the formless evil thing waited for him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That thing was bodiless, blind to sunlight, a creature of a lightless, placeless, timeless realm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I almost liked how cramped and lightless it was, so unlike our windy, too bright apartment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Across town, in the lightless Zebra Room, my father was trying to stay awake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had been imprisoned in a lightless garret room for far too long: his beard was wild and his hair was a tangle. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “You guys are the best,” I said, and they all three whispered “Shhh!” as we made our way down the lightless hall to the stairwell. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The lightless elevator swayed back and forth as it ascended, turning the boy s stomach sour with nausea; a smell like burnt oil invaded his senses, making him feel worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z We rolled without letup as we were dragged into the lightless ocean depths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The basement was a meandering complex of rooms so lightless I may as well have explored them blindfolded. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The purgatorial winter, with its lightless days and frigid nights, gives way to four months of balmy intoxication. 36 Hours in Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Toward the end of those years, the Viking and his closest lieutenants were cast into a lightless dungeon, yet nonetheless managed to break out, kidnap the emperor’s mistress and commandeer two galleys. Review | If you love heroic fantasy a la George R.R. Martin, you’ll love ‘The Last Viking’ 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Painting here is the weakest link, except for George Shaw's paintings of the Coventry suburbia where he grew up, with their litter-strewn verges, graffitied walls and grim, lightless afternoons. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z Reading, gloriously, is a low-tech pleasure, and after a day staring at the basilisk glow of a computer, I like the lightless ease of a printed page, a salve for strained eyes. There’s not much to this app for book readers 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z One of the felons came and picked us up — unwillingly — which meant driving over broken glass, around enormous palm fronds and through lightless intersections. Modern Love: Age Is No Obstacle to Love, or Adventure 2013-09-12T18:12:17Z Though his mouth was hidden by the mask, it was obvious from the steady, lightless look in his eyes that he wasn’t smiling. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Periodically he is dragged into a lightless room, thrown onto the dirty floor: ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In “El Señor Presidente,” the regime’s prisons are hell on earth; those awaiting execution are kept in a lightless cell where they are forced to stand in their own excrement. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z There are writers at this very newspaper, all upstanding individuals, who would have you believe a mythologized weather pattern of doom is about to plunge our mountain-nestled utopia into an epoch of lightless despair. Pearl Jam side gigs among buzziest Seattle concerts coming up 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z “At this point we have a lightless lighthouse until the Coast Guard can effect the repairs.” Lighthouse featured in ‘Forrest Gump’ goes dark after lightning strike 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z “Dozens of other prisoners were forced into a long lightless underground tunnel where they sat shoulder to shoulder on the concrete floor,” the affidavit said. Former Bosnian prison camp guard charged with lying to get refugee status, citizenship in US 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In the western Donbas region, that tactic left a dark trail of destruction — almost all the towns and cities that Russia has captured since its full-scale invasion have been reduced to lightless ruins. Ukraine Goes Dark: Images From Space Drive Home the Nation’s Anguish 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The boy grows up in the lightless void before managing to escape. In a Korean author's U.S. debut, uncanny pleasures rear their ugly heads 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z At night, lightless streets turn into treacherous obstacle courses, especially after snow and rain. Ukrainian energy systems on brink of collapse after weeks of Russian bombing 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Most people tolerate short periods of time in lightless anechoic chambers — about 20 minutes, for his experiments — “fine.” Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z One of the authors as a juvenile found it amusing to ride his bicycle fast enough to burn out his lights, until he had to ride home lightless one dark night. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Chemoorganotroph, as it must rely on chemical sources of energy living in a lightless environment and an organotroph if it uses organic compounds other than carbon dioxide for its carbon source. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Then the lifeless galaxies will just continue to move apart in their lightless realm. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Tracking swarms of flea-size organisms through the lightless depths is trickier than following migrating whales across hemispheres. Greatest Migration on Earth Happens under Darkness Every Day 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z “If you let him, we risk entering a tunnel over the next five years, a lightless tunnel.” Pro-Macron Forces Expected to Prevail but Face Left-Wing Challenge 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Media images showed commuters immersed in chest-deep waters in lightless cabins. China orders immediate review of subway flood controls as rains continue 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z A bacterium requires only a particular amino acid as an organic nutrient and lives in a completely lightless environment. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The baby fish return to the lightless deep before sunrise. The Ocean’s Youngest Monsters Are Ready for Glamour Shots 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The film’s vision of Florida is a mix of mid-’10s airspace blandness and timeless grunge — like the grim, lightless motel room where Derrek’s breakdown begins. Zola proves that a viral Twitter thread can make a great movie 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Traversing those dunes on foot was like trudging through a windless desert on a lightless planet. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z But this would not be like any other lightless night in the hillside barrio. Short of electricity, food and water, Venezuelans return to religion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Chemoheterotroph, as it must rely on chemical sources of energy living in a lightless environment and a heterotroph if it uses organic compounds for its carbon source. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Beyond the grid was lightless Alaskan wilderness beholden to nothing but what the Earth provided. An artificial life form carries the seeds of humanity to a new world 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z At their own mothers if they accidentally brought Diet Coke instead of the regular swill down to their lightless basement lairs. Dear Yankees fans who know how to read: STOP THROWING BEER AT PEOPLE - Golf Digest 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Hints that these fish have unusual metabolic adaptations for coping with their lightless and seemingly food-poor habitat led Riddle and colleagues to investigate them further. The healthy diabetic cavefish conundrum 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z To the north-east, the lightless gaps between the homes and businesses are agricultural fields. Satellite Eye on Earth: November and December 2017 - in pictures 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Chemolitoautotroph, as it must rely on chemical sources of energy living in a lightless environment and an autotroph if it uses organic compounds other than carbon dioxide for its carbon source. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Blackout — Those afraid of the dark will find this lightless maze a true asylum of horror. Best horror attractions 2017: Kings Dominion’s ‘Halloween Haunt’ (Doswell, Virginia) 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Cézanne cunningly uses the black clothes of 19th-century male fashion to heighten the gloom, setting his subject against a lightless space. Cézanne unmasked: the shattering portraits that blew Picasso and the Paris avant garde away 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Ahmad met me outside the doorway of a lightless building downtown. Braving Cancer Amid the Chaos of Syria 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Oregonians will never get back the lightless skies at night or the lonely beauty of ancient, eroded terrain cut through by wild rivers in the Owyhee if given over to mining or highway-building. Editorials from around Oregon 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Chemoheterotroph, as it must rely on chemical sources of energy living in a lightless environment and a heterotroph if it uses organic compounds other than carbon dioxide for its carbon source. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The air in the valley is bone-dry, and pigment applied to a plastered wall in a lightless, undisturbed chamber should decay little over the centuries. The Factory of Fakes 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The white crow of the show’s title can be found clinging to the back wall of a nearly lightless room painted black. Rats on Main Street? Don’t Scream, They’re Art 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z In lightless waters, creatures need no eyes, no pigment to resist the sun, no scales. Eyeless catfish discovered in Texas cave may have come from Mexico 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z A global survey published this week, the first of its kind, found an astonishing range of biodiversity in the lightless zone more than 2,000 meters beneath the surface. Life in the ocean’s darkest depths is even weirder than scientists thought 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z First there was the microbe that scientists called “The Bold Traveler,” found living in lightless solitude more than two miles down a South African gold mine. A microscopic ‘zoo’ is found deep, deep underground 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Heightening the mystery, nobody knows how these creatures found their way through a lightless maze of narrow fissures into the cave’s inner sanctum 100 yards underground. Remains of Humanlike Ancestors Found in South Africa 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It seemed grotesque for people to live in lightless dwellings alongside their animals. A Cave with a View 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z These tiny waves gradually stretched to hundreds of thousands of light years across as the expanding, lightless universe cooled down following the super-hot instant of inflation. A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s "Smoking Gun" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “After several days, all that is left is an empty shell. Killer sponges sound like creatures from a B-grade horror movie. In fact, they thrive in the lightless depths of the deep sea.” Biologists discover four new species of carnivorous sponge 2014-04-28T19:35:51Z Out in Penguia, there is scarcely any police presence, though I did find a solitary officer sitting at a single battered table with a wilting logbook in a lightless, mud-walled station. Jeffrey Wright’s Gold Mine 2014-01-16T10:00:02Z His captors put him in a lightless room. American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels 2013-08-22T23:00:09Z Under a lightless Polish sky as dull and flat as a sheet of beaten lead the Israeli flag flutters listlessly in the light wind. How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive 2013-06-18T23:43:30Z When the eight-storey building collapsed on April 24, Begum was trapped in a lightless, cell-like nook - alone, but alive. Woman pulled alive from rubble of Bangladesh factory 2013-05-11T05:24:00Z Through a lightless one-street village he went, head low, stride lumbering, the muzzle weighing a ton and composed of molten iron and hornet stings. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Some were thin as skeletons; others were mountains of living fat; but all of them were painted scandalously with vermilion and had blue rings around their lightless eyes. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Art thou more fair For all the beauty gathered up in thee, As gold and gems within some lightless sea? The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z To wander far in these lightless passages would be to track death. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The shadowy rider seemed to turn in the saddle; she felt his eyes scrutinising the darkened facade, the lightless windows. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Now for me had it degenerated into its mood of old night, behaving as it did in the lightless days, before poetry came to change it with flattery. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Well yes, but this bleeding-obviousness hasn't yet impinged on the developers who build tiny, lightless homes, nor on the government that might stop them from doing so. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-05T15:28:37Z Its three lower tiers of windows were all dark and lightless, but on the fourth floor a single oblong shone with gas-light, while on the fifth as many as three were dully aglow. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Ever since then, he's been spending his summers thousands of feet beneath the earth, in the bowels of South Africa's deepest gold mines, prospecting for other kinds of life in this lightless, hidden biosphere. Could Worms Deep Below Earth Mean There's Life in Space? 2011-06-08T11:05:00Z But we know the contrary, in both instances; we know the cloud to be a damp fog, or a drift of snow flakes; and the sky to be a lightless abyss. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Up the avenue of Malory they were driving, and Dingwell looked out with a dismal curiosity upon the lightless front of the old house. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z This very blessing was uttered every Sabbath twilight, in every Ghetto, by every bloodless worshipper, to a melancholy despairing melody, in the lightless dusk of the synagogues. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z There is beauty in the lightless deep as well. Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf 2010-05-16T04:00:00Z These underground kitchens must eventually die out, and our children will wonder why we used such airless, lightless places. Household Organization The bats, blind from their lightless lives, 144bumped against them and added the final touch of weirdness by their gnome-like faces. Unexplored! Science has explored the lightless mysteries of the deep, has measured the stars and traced the comets through the heavens: there was no cause to believe it couldn’t conquer now. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Along lightless streets, half choked with rubble and with the dead, poured a mad, hating horde. When the Mountain Shook He had a sense of freedom as complete as though he had been released into the sunlight after long confinement in a lightless dungeon. Cold Ghost He hides himself away in some old hole or rocky fastness, lightless, matted, and uncombed, and so thins and pines, or becomes a Wanderer or Môh-mulgar. The Three Mulla-mulgars The thought was stamped one morning in my mind, 246 when I chanced to be abroad by moonlight, and saw all the town lightless, but the lamp faithfully burning by the missionary’s bed. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The clouds in the sky itself are round, heavy, and lightless, and in a great degree spoil what would otherwise be a fine landscape distance. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The pious walk in confidence and patience through the lightless darkness, until the Lord kindles a light to them. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 As he turned, from habit, towards the Park, the great houses on his right frowned down upon him lightless and lifeless. Berenice And at last he came to where, in a filthy hollow, cold and lightless, and oozing with dark-glistening water-drops, his brothers Thimble and Thumb were sleeping. The Three Mulla-mulgars For an instant, as they moved along the short, lightless passage to the front rooms, a curious sensation touched Halder—a terrifying conviction that some undefinable thing had just gone wrong. The Other Likeness A ray of lightless light—an unseen ethereal vibration…. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Not in her most ponderous and lightless masses will nature ever leave us � 14. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) They closed over the whirling vortex where a denizen of the lightless depths was returning to those distant, subterranean caverns—returning as food for what other voracious monsters might still exist. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 But when she essayed to reckon the rooms between it and her own it turned black again, and after another twenty seconds once more shone out and once more was lightless. Nobody The scene changed, and I found myself still engaged in my late journey, coming down over the hill, just as the sun was setting red and lightless through the haze behind the dark Atlantic. Leading Articles on Various Subjects The world of Lewis Stillman was damp and lightless; it was narrow and its cold stone walls pressed in upon him as he moved. Small World That of Veronese would look ghostly beside it; that of Titian lightless. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The protecting glare of day must be unbearable to this monster from the lightless depths, and daylight was vanishing. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The hesitancy which had come to him with the first impress of the lightless silence about them vanished. The Web of the Golden Spider The shark, in one long powerful movement, had turned and gone under the dolphin, which now raced upward from the dim, lightless depths of the sea to the surface where it hoped to escape. Mr. Wicker's Window Even so; brown and lightless, with a chill nip in the air that dampened rather than encouraged energy. Nobody Would they spend the rest of their lives locked away in lightless dungeons? The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The airless, lightless houses are most unsavoury, and in times of sickness and childbirth this is intensified. India and the Indians The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. The World I Live In What one looks into is the lightless unknown. Waiting for Daylight Better even, it has lately seemed, to be guideless and lightless; fortunate those who, by desolate effort, trying hither and thither, have groped their way to some independent power. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature No flash of a sentinel's lantern, no tramping of feet, no cry of nocturnal bird or beast would waken them; they sank into sleep as into some deep, soundless, lightless pit. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea It seemed to him that he had come up to earth from out of some lightless, subterranean cavern. The Goose Man It was like a fresh wind blowing suddenly through the choking atmosphere of a lightless room. The Jewish State The two end barrels were the bulging, lightless eyes of a non-descript monster, for which the cable chains had multiplied themselves into innumerable legs and tentacles. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Numberless effects, apparently anomalous, might be adduced in illustration of the action of these lightless rays. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 I suppose everyone at some time has imagined himself irrevocably imprisoned, cast into some lightless dungeon and left to die. Greener Than You Think The house was over him, blank and lightless, its roof a black heap against the night sky. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The little tender, lightless, escaped their observation, and we were picked up. The Ultimate Weapon It was nine o'clock when he passed the Preble ranch house, silent and lightless, but with the horses munching in the corral. The Forbidden Trail Before him in the blackness there was—or perhaps there had been for some time—a blue glow, almost as lightless as the surrounding dark, but blue and physically deep for all that. Breaking Point They had decided that, supposing the cockney got so far, a lightless house would perplex his feet, and he would be the noisier. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story It was with almost a touch of exasperation that he stood there in his tracks, and slowly, methodically, thoroughly, surveyed the four quarters of the lightless room in which he found himself. Phantom Wires A Novel It was material; but not brute, inert, inactive, lifeless, motionless, formless, lightless matter. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The Swiftsure, bearing down through the darkness to the combat, came across a vessel drifting, dismasted and lightless, a mere wreck. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Rich as a crimson sunset, with traditions splendid as sunlit clouds, English Royalty had sunk into the night, and the whole sky was lightless, except where the glory had descended. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Indeed, the entire trip from Sandy Point to Jupiter Inlet was a lightless voyage. Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain Durkin, after a brief talk with the second officer, had been taken aboard the tender and hurried out to where the lightless steamer rocked and swung at her anchor chain in the intense turquoise bay. Phantom Wires A Novel Many the marvels of earth, the more marvellous wonders on high, Worlds past number on worlds, blank lightless abysses of sky; But thou art the wonder of wonders, O Man! The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History And the immortal sea stretched away immense and hazy, like the image of life, with a glittering surface and lightless depths. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle To such a day, from the grey fogs and lightless hours of winter, one comes, finding life well worth its while. Sally Bishop A Romance The plain of the ice and the snowclad hills looked blue with cold—unutterably cold, and dead as lightless snow looks when the eye has grown accustomed to see it animated with light. What Necessity Knows Then she sought out the Cunard tender—it was lightless and deserted. Phantom Wires A Novel She is indeed transfigured before him; but the truth of the transfiguration is greater than that of the lightless aspect she bears to others. The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford Over the eastern rim of the Marsh the moon had risen, a red, lightless disk, while the sun, red and lightless too, hung in the west above Rye Hill. Joanna Godden "The tenants didn't build them with lightless hallways, did they?" Success A Novel It was a landscape so thick in colouring and so lightless that it failed to give an outdoor impression at all. Living Alone The February wind rasped through the bare trees, shrieked around the corners of lightless houses and whipped its way through the scurrying snow with all the rage of a lion. The Daughter of Anderson Crow He would now have been at Clark; leading lightless days; hopelessly involved with his mother. Christopher and Columbus The only alternatives were to go lightless and smokeless or to assault the heartless oppressor. White Shadows in the South Seas The vague, black shadow of a lightless house loomed up before them. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Aboard the vessel only Hayes seemed unmoved by the lightless passage, like falling down a colossal well to the heart of a venomous, robotoid planet. Oberheim (Voices) But one twitch of the tail, one blink of a lightless eye, was more terrifying than the roar of a lion. The Dark House After four marches of despairing length under a lightless sky over a colorless earth, we stood for two hours, hot and damp, at the chilly top of a hill, where a village was beginning. Light Her beautiful eyes, Too youthful, too wise, Seemed ever to come To so lightless a home, Cold and dull as a stone. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. After he had come through the second door, he entered a lightless room that gave an impression of immense spaciousness. The Runaway Asteroid How black they were among the green leaves—lightless as death itself. The Sky Line of Spruce At that the cold clans of the wave With spray and surge and splash appeared: Up from each wrack-strewn, lightless cave Dim day-struck eyes affrighted peered. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls And out of this face the eyes looked on, big, dry, enlarged, lightless, burnt out like two black holes in the white, shining globes. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale With closed eyes he dared to dream a moment in full abandonment, and when he looked again the river seemed steely and chill, the green fields grey and lightless. The Wind in the Willows The night, clear and starry, sparkled darkly, and the opaque, lightless patches shifting slowly against the low stars were the drifting islets. The Secret Sharer For a breath he held it close to his cheek, his eyes lightless and far away, and she gazed at him in amazement. The Sky Line of Spruce The Cedars stood before us as yet lightless against the northern sky. In the Valley Its houses loomed tall, with many windows, mostly lightless—materially aggravating that air of isolate, cold dignity which distinguishes the Englishman's castle. The Black Bag We stifle cries with lightless eyes And face eternal night; We stifle cries to sacrifice Our eyes for Human Sight. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 Put by the sun my lightless soul, We are for darkness that is whole. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 At last the surface of the world lay clear to see, but sodden and deserted, the fair fields covered with ooze, the houses rank with moss, the temples cold and lightless. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew My eyes adjusted to the darkness, and as they did, I realized it was not now totally lightless, for there was a faint glow coming from somewhere in the distance. The Revolutions of Time Here and there dreary and cheerless public houses appeared, with lighted windows conspicuous in a lightless waste. The Black Bag Their dear ones had died within its walls, and some intuition, feeling blindly through the lightless passages of the future, told them that its history was not yet ended. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People Spectral from the gilded ceiling hung lightless chandeliers.—The furniture, pompous, but worn by use and faded by time, seemed mementos of departed revels. What Will He Do with It? — Complete Spectral from the gilded ceiling hung lightless chandeliers. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 The most interesting is, perhaps, Chapter CLXXV, which describes the Tuat as airless, waterless, and lightless. The Book of the Dead The eyes themselves were as black as night and as lightless; the rays of the lamp struck no gleam from them; in spite of this they were compelling, masterful, and disconcerting. Red Masquerade There was grey mixed with the dark brown of his hair; the eyes were hollow and lightless; the cheeks had painfully sunken in. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People In an instant, I had crossed the threshold, and the great doors closed, silently, shutting me in that lightless place. The House on the Borderland "O you shall slumber soundly, tho' the white, "Wild waters pluck the crocus of your hair; "And scaly spies stare with round, lightless eyes "At your small face laid on my stony breast. Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems In the darkness his face was ashen gray, for like a flash of fire in the lightless room the truth rushed upon him. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail As we drew further and further into that lightless land, little twists and curls of vapour wriggled over the black river-surface. Letters from America The barbed hook, baited with the illusions of progress, to bring out of the lightless void the shoals of unnumbered generations! Victory An Island Tale A while, and even this had gone, and I was wrapped in an impalpable, lightless gloom. The House on the Borderland He looks more like the moon than like his own self, white and heatless and lightless, as if it were not he at all from whom all this transparency and visibility proceeded. Over Prairie Trails Through the lightless porthole he listened for the terrifying shout, "Man overboard!" West Wind Drift Imagine our surprise to see an answering light from a small boat in the river which was otherwise lightless. The Dream Doctor The Company's store loomed up silent and lightless. Back to God's Country and Other Stories He was easily identifiable—so near, so near!—in spite of his squinting and lightless eyes, by the mass of his muddy beard and the distorted mouth that revealed the teeth. Under Fire: the story of a squad They were both rayless and strangely—lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness. The Metal Monster She quickly closed the door behind her and sped off down the line of now lightless cabins. West Wind Drift The finding of the can of opium on the scene of the murder of Bertha Curtis, and the chase after the lightless motor boat had at last placed Kennedy on the right track. The Dream Doctor Past the residence of Beauvais he went, and, gazing up at the lightless windows, a cold of short duration seized his spine. The Puppet Crown He turns two big and lightless eyes on me, and his wound is not visible. Under Fire: the story of a squad They stopped and stood together on the brow of the little hill, and Lawford, still trembling from head to foot, looked back across the hushed and lightless countryside. The Return And watch you, a broad-browed and smiling dream, Pass, light as ever, through the lightless host, Quietly ponder, start, and sway, and gleam— Most individual and bewildering ghost!— The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 In a wooded lane, a quarter mile away, his lightless motor car waited. Further Adventures of Lad The air is dim and lightless with the smoke from all these habitations and places of business. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 The balmy air played through her waving tresses—she put them from her face, and raised those eyes—so tender, though so lightless—to the sky, whose soft face she had never seen! Last Days of Pompeii Terrible Love, I ween, Has might, even dead, half sighing to upheave The lightless seas of selfishness amain: Seas that in a man's heart have no rain To fall and still them. Poems — Volume 1 Having no lamps we are forced to train ourselves to travel through the blackest night, lightless. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle The night, clear and starry, sparkled darkly, and the opaque, lightless patches shifting slowly against the low stars were the drifting islets. 'Twixt Land and Sea For it seemed to him that it must be the death of him followed by a lightless, bottomless pit. Within the Tides |
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