| 单词 | starless |
| 例句 | All three buses drove down the hill and through the dark, starless night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I fell, slowly it seemed, into a deep starless darkness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z All through that starless night, your breath came in wheezy gasps as raindrops wriggled, like silver snakes, through the gaps in our tent. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Lanre, his face in shadow darker than a starless night, was blown away like smoke upon the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As in: Last night I felt like I was fading away as I watched the starless Portland Trailblazers get stomped by Dads favorite team, the Lakers. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z I see the darkening sky above me, starless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I stared at the small shadows and big emptiness of the starless ceiling. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The day had been warm, almost balmy, but the evening was cooler and already thickening into a starless, chilly night. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As in: If me and JB try out for JV next year, the Reggie Lewis Junior High School Wildcats will be starless. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z It was a thick night, starless, but the darkness was becoming impregnated with a fresh and clear air. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A warm rain was pelting down from a starless black sky as they walked to the stables. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At first all she saw was stone and trees, the looming mass of the great mountain shrouded in night, as black as a starless sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Beyond him, she could see the outline of trees moving slightly in a night breeze against the dark starless sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On starless nights the great cliff was as black as stone, a darkness towering high above the wide world, but when the moon came out it shimmered pale and icy as a frozen stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sparks rushed upward and died in the starless dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then it faded into the West, and dusk came early, followed by a grey and starless night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside there was a starless blackness as Gandalf, with Pippin beside him bearing a small torch, made his way to their lodging. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As in: My father was the light of my world, and now that he’s gone, each night is starless. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z At once, as though somehow aware that he was their last intruder, the mambas hissed loudly in unison, their cold eyes meeting his own like onyx plucked from a starless night sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They could see the top of the Giulia's smokestack, the smoke itself discernible only as a starless patch of night sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes opened to gaze up at a flat dead sky, black and bleak and starless. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His dark eyes are empty, like pits, like starless nights. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, the night sky loomed black and starless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He rode deeper and he rode through gathering darkness: from gloom to twilight to night to a pitch-black starless dark. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z There is no last-second shot, and we all wear its cruel midnight uniform, starless and unfriendly. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Thomas peered up at the Hole through which they’d come—it looked like a square window into a deep, starless space. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The city was an industrial grid of endless concrete blocks, with bleak soviet monuments and starless skies. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z On this starless night, the glow of the Christmas decorations lifted the evening darkness. Germany’s Christmas markets take yuletide spirit to another level 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Downstairs, the open bar at the club Good Units at the Hudson Hotel was thronged with her guests, but at least early on, the party was as starless as the Manhattan sky over Midtown. | Quieter Affairs, With Exceptions 2010-09-15T16:16:00Z Devon and I sat in the car in silence, looking out the window at the icy starless sky. What it’s like to watch him die 2014-02-27T00:00:00Z In the more than 30 stories here, Mr. Ligotti paints in prose as dense as a starless November night. Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The wake was ivory white against the blackness of the sea and the starless, charcoal sky. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It was as if a blindfold — making the world darker than a moonless, starless night — had been tightly bound around my head. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z In its own starless way, such horror may spark joy. Declutter so you can reclutter – Kondo has a new master plan 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Until audiences start showing up for starless plays and musicals, producers will keep looking for insurance in the form of a name commodity, letting questions of aesthetic integrity come second. Theater Talkback: When Stars Take Over the Tonys 2010-06-24T16:55:00Z One contains truth, another a starless sky, another the smell of horses. Theater Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Or Jorge García, a veteran of the Angolan wars, who, in the course of one starless night, lost all faith in the system. America Is Obsessed With Cuba. But What Do We Know About Its Citizens? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet the darkness that creeps in from the edges of this novel is never overwhelming, never starless. In Louise Erdirch's 'LaRose,' parents make an impossible bargain 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The Clippers had to survive a fight over the final weeks to avoid the play-in tournament, including struggling to put away the same, starless Trail Blazers in the penultimate game. Clippers throw down 15 dunks in season-opening rout of Trail Blazers 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The photographer, James Baguley, chose a starless image to emphasise the beautiful red background, which is a dense backdrop of hydrogen gas. Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Huge plasma arc wins 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z It was a starless night when a ship commanded by a young American lieutenant collided with a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific. Island trip lays bare US-China tussle in the Pacific 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Operators will also point the telescope at starless areas of sky to understand the “dark current” created by thermal noise in the instrument itself. After reaching deep space haven, Webb telescope begins 5 months of fine-tuning 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z On her back on the track, she stared up at the starless sky, lungs heaving, hands pressed to her forehead, sweat beading. With a bronze in the women’s 400 meters, Allyson Felix runs into forever 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z “I think I’m lost in my mentality./Adrift, floating in the starless night sky./ I don’t know if I’m waiting for death/or waiting to become alive.” Latinos, disproportionately killed by police, are often left out of debate about brutality, advocates say 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Jacob Lipson of Heritage Auctions said earlier that starless coins are considered by collectors and institutions as “one-of-a-kind prototypes for the silver examples that would follow,.” Prototype of 1st US dollar coins auctioned for $840,000 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z While it closely resembles silver dollars that were later minted in Philadelphia, it gets its name because it is starless. Prototype of first US dollar coin may sell for $500,000 at auction 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z However, they are the most starless team in the NBA, so Ball would be the pick. NBA Mock Draft 3.0: LaMelo Ball or who at No. 1? 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The Knicks’ woes certainly run far deeper, given the state of their starless roster and the latest public-relations disaster they absorbed in the Spike Lee flap. Double Trouble for the Knicks and the Nets 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Still, they’ve overcome a lot in a few short months with a new coach and a starless roster. UCLA on seven-game winning streak and leading Pac-12 race 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The current starless season portends the difficulty ahead. Perspective | College basketball will miss the one-and-dones. This lackluster season is proof. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In northern Italy, we are drawn to the starless rivers and labyrinthine limestone uplands of the Karst Plateau, which straddles the Slovenian border. The fascinating and terrifying worlds beneath our feet 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Yet these starless regions should still contain approximately a hundred million times the sun’s weight in dark matter. New Star Maps Shed Light on Milky Way's Convulsive History 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Therefore the 55-year-old counts as an epitome of his starless team. Sweden, with no stars and little flash, grinds into World Cup quarterfinals 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z A vivid sun warmed the chill coming off the lake, and as night fell, the 37,612 at Progressive Field bundled under a starless sky. Behind Trevor Bauer, Indians look like a team on a mission in Game 1 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z There will be blind curves and detours, flat tires and overheated engines, starless nights and sunless days. Time Is No Ally to Jordan Spieth in His Career Grand Slam Bid 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z And James, at 22, carried the otherwise starless Cavaliers to the 2007 finals, an estimable feat despite being swept there by the Spurs. Way Below N.B.A. Powerhouses, It’s Still High Picks and Distant Hopes 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Under a starless New York sky, Sanders gave mostly the same speech he’s been giving to supporters across the country: the American people have lost a voice in their own democracy. Bernie Sanders rally in New York strikes at heart of establishment 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z I was pulling for the starless Royals team to shock the universe. Baseball's postseason music makes me want to scratch out my eardrums | Dave Bry 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z We watch the little lights enter the starless extremity and go out, one by one by one. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell – dazzle of narrative fireworks 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z If this idea is correct, there should be some transition objects between the starless dark matter blobs and the fully formed dwarf galaxies, where star formation started but was halted prematurely. Milky Way s Tiny Satellite Galaxies May Help Solve Dark Matter Mystery 2013-10-16T11:15:00.630Z George Karl led the Nuggets to the playoffs in all eight of his seasons and earned coach of the year honors this year after helping a starless team set a franchise record with 57 victories. Spurs, Heat defined by stability at the top 2013-06-16T20:44:09Z The discovery of a starless alien planet would not be shocking, at least not anymore. "Orphan" Alien Planet Found Nearby Without Parent Star 2012-11-14T16:15:02.513Z But, for the rest, there was black gloom, as of moonless, starless nights. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The luminosity of the earth is made evident to us on starless, moonless nights. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z A funny thing happened along the way: His starless team jelled and UConn is back in the national semifinals for a fifth consecutive season. Connecticut, Notre Dame earn Women's Final Four berths | College basketball 2012-03-28T04:43:42Z The weary day wore on—the day they thought would perhaps be their last—until night, with its starless gloom, was surrounding the desolate picture of grinding ice and of black, rolling waves, dimly seen. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z In many regions its light is interrupted, especially in Centaurus, where a dark starless region exists, known as the "coal sack." Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z He looked round at the wild sea, invisible on that starless night save for the white foam that hissed on the tops of the waves. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Remember only starless night, cool swish of many seas. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night,—blown and flared by passion's storm,—and yet it is the only light. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z I would rather that every god would destroy himself; I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z He realized the darkness and despair, the cruelty and hate, the starless blackness of the old, malignant creed. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Night came, a thick starless night with clouds hanging low over the desert. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z Alas, in my soul also there is night—dark, starless and without hope of dawn! The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z These years were the starless midnight of our race. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z He crept down the stairs, and wandered vaguely into the cold, starless night, jostled by leering females, and returned forlorn and coughing. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The night was starless, the wind had sunk, the sea was calm. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z There is not a single soul on which to lean—not a sympathizing heart to turn to while fever is burning up his brain, and night, moonless and starless, is settling down around him. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z The memories grew too bitter, and at last I went out into the darkness of a starless night, to find little solace there. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Now ... now it is night, pitch dark, starless night.... Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z He saw Death write on it the fatal red— He saw, and straightway sank his spirit's light Into the sunless twilight of the starless night! The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z On any ordinary night and fairly open track, we could manage to get along, but this night was not only moonless but starless, and thick with gathering rain. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z But there are other nights, moonless and starless, When no moth flutters, no bat flits, owl calls, Something is stirring, something is rustling, Something that is not of mortals befalls In galleries, cellars, and halls. Poems of London and Other Verses 2011-10-15T02:00:29.553Z Night had fallen over the city, a dark, starless night. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Darker grew the sky, until an intense darkness, black as starless night, spread over the earth. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Now when wan winter sunsets be Canary-colored down the sky; When nights are starless utterly, And sleeted winds cut moaning by, One's memory keeps one company, And conscience puts his "when" and "why." The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z One dark, starless night in October, 1883, I had been making a call upon a neighbour of mine in the outskirts of our village. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z By this time it was quite dark; the sky was starless, there was not a breath of air. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z The night was black and starless, and had been still. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z He has return'd!—and starless night No longer o'er us lowers. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z With the horror and the burden of the starless land far off, we lift up our eyes again to see the stars, and our souls are ready for the purifying sufferings of Purgatory. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z The night was heavy and starless, an excellent one for their project. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Thy mantle, dark and starless, cast Over my selected youth; Bury in thy womb the mournful past, And soften with thy dreams th' asperities of truth. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Carlton looked forth upon a white world in dazzling contrast to the clear dark grey of a starless sky; at first there was no third tint. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z O starless night! thy loveliness my soul inhales, Without those starry rays which speak a language known, For I desire the dark, the naked and the lone. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z The invisible destiny took a son's anxious hand and opened therewith an eye, which was worthy of a finer night than this starless one. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z During the next 200 million years, the universe cooled, leaving it dark and starless. The First Stars, Massive and Fast-Spinning 2011-04-27T18:36:10Z At length again came a starless interval; and far longer it endured, before the beams of a starry host again had reached us. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z His strolling out through the grounds, with a young lady for sole companion, even upon a starless night, is not considered outré—certainly not a thing for scandal. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z And yonder, over in the Blackforest, on the same place where the burning torch had first been visible, there now arose a mighty flame, lighting up the dark, starless night. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z But wait at least for daylight," said Helen, eagerly; "the storm is increasing, and the night is dark and starless. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z It was early, only a quarter past ten, and the night was now superb, the sky a clear, starless blue with the great moon queening it alone. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z When a bright object of this kind passes from your presence, there still lingers for a second or so a species of twilight, after which comes the black and starless night of deep despondency. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z It was in the night; a night starless and calm, and of course favourable to the eavesdroppers. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Hiram was still wrapped up in his blanket, just as I had left him; and then the truth suddenly flashed into my dark mind, like lightning over a starless sky. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Intense cold had come now with leaden snowy days and starless nights. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Outside, the October evening was cold and damp; the skies were starless, the air was full of mist, and a keen blast heralded the approach of winter. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z The night was dark and starless, as if Nature partook of the universal mournfulness. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z It was a lukewarm night, without wind and without moon, starless. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The branches of the fir-trees bent beneath their pure burden, and the cloak spread over the ground was so dazzling that it gave light to the starless night. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z One sayeth: Lo, now, God’s lost angel crowned With broken hopes, and clothed with grief, and mute, Sitting with his despair through the long starless night, I, God’s lost angel. Eidola 2011-01-17T03:00:49.097Z With thee, with thee, I would boldly swim a starless sea, and be buoy to thee, there, when thou the strong swimmer shouldst faint. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z And then, lo! the starless heavens above her opened out in indescribable Glory. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z It was a starless night, and when Alex got to the Heath and away from the lighted streets, it was very dark. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z It’s a starless Friday night on the Equator. Scientist at Work: A Long Journey Into the Ecuadorean Forest 2011-01-13T18:06:25Z He took their hands, making them turn the way by which they had come; below their feet was a deep black gulf, and beyond and away lay nothing but a dark starless hollow of air. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Dust of Pel�e would fall upon the archipelago for weeks, but this of starless dark was their supreme night. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Photograph: Rex Features Ten o'clock on a starless summer night. Italy's meltdown over EU Nutella ban that never was 2010-07-02T19:07:00Z Flashing, assiduous, full of free spaces, brooding, crimson in my veins, paling slightly at the horizon, departing in the starless wind, and returning in haste to my limbs. Woman The Old Year was gone, with all its sins and errors, its golden gleams and midnight storms, its midsummer days of sunshine for some, its winter nights of starless gloom for others. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The party now advanced towards the palace, which in the gloom of a starless night was still entirely hidden from their sight, save as a darker mass set square against the black vault of heaven. The Firebrand The savour of this silence and solitude, of this profound peace, the sequel to so many tempests, of this almost starless gloaming and twilight with its fleeting gleams, reposes the eye after our underground illuminations. Underground Man The ghosts of trees reach icy arms up to a starless sky, Mourning the gods who never were that rest here when they die. The Book of Gud Many hours passed away, and the night without, dark and starless, had deepened around her cold hearth. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. Though flowers be dead within the winter world, Are flowers not there? and starless though the night, Are stars not there, eternal and the same? Shapes and Shadows It was a dark and starless night—the wind still Mowing a hurricane from the north-east, and not a thing to be seen two yards from where you stood. Jack Hinton The Guardsman The hours glided on unnoticed as I lay thus dreaming, and night at last fell, dark and starless. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience When he had finished his face was like starless night. Bye-Ways Without, all was silent and deserted, and the starless sky and the sighing of wind through the gloomy streets, from which my cab had long since departed, but added to my presentiments of evil. The Green God Overhead was darkness, paling into twilight near the ground, so that when he looked up he was staring into bottomless deeps of starless night. The Tree of Life In the clime of sun and endless summer, we are in the land of starless political darkness. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time It seemed to represent action upon a small plateau or table rock, drab and bare, with a twilight sky deepening into a starless evening. The Golgotha Dancers And so, when the black and starless night of my deed came, I was happy and serene. Bye-Ways It was overcast and starless, and it was impossible under any condition to see more than a few yards about them. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam The next moment I was in the Place; a light misty rain was falling, and the night was dark and starless. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The night was dark and starless, as they plodded onward, and as the rain ceased, the wind grew stronger, while for miles inland the roaring of the sea could be heard like deep continuous thunder. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago It was a black, moonless, starless night, and the officer concluded to look. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade And he sang how once, one moonless, starless night, they attacked a Roman ship camp on the Rhine: the galleys were anchored in the river; on the shore were many tents. A Captive of the Roman Eagles No woman’s piercing crown of thorns Will press my aching baby’s brow; No starless nights, no sunless morns, Will ever greet her now. Songs of the Army of the Night Outside, the surf maintained its sullen murmur; through the gloom of starless nights its phosphorescent outlines rushed across the reef like phantom serpents in parade. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure The night was dark and starless: that heavy, clouded darkness which follows a day of rain in our western climate, and makes the atmosphere seem loaded and weighty. St. Patrick's Eve It was of a calm but starless night in winter that Florence was illuminated in honor of a victory over the Austrian troops at Goito. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Overhead was the soft starless twilight of June, through which a nighthawk flapped heavily and vanished. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. All through the tepid Summer night The starless sky had poured a cool Monotony of pleasant rain In music beautiful. Blooms of the Berry We passed the night on the field of battle,—a night dark and starless. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II A silent, starless night, dank with heavy falling dew. Pretty Michal Wonderful hazel eyes they were, changing with every mood, now dark and sombre as a starless night, now light and limpid as a Highland burn, laughing in the sunshine. The Red Symbol Your degraded and starless nature has never had one true soul to lean upon. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 The night was sultry 273 and starless; it looked as if there would be rain on the morrow. Francezka And in the pure, blue starless heavens, Float the white clouds, Like colossal images of gods Of gleaming marble. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine I shall not soon forget her and her eyes, The haunts of hate, where suffering seemed to write Its own dark name, whose syllables are sighs, In strange and starless night. The Garden of Dreams Outside, a black starless sky bent over a cool, quiet earth. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Stretching away to east and west, the dimly outlined trail was lost abruptly in engulfing darkness; while, overhead, a starless sky, low and somber and frowning, pressed close. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance The moon was just rising; the trees on either hand lifted their gaunt branches to a wild and starless sky. Under False Pretences A Novel Ah, Mr. Ransome, you do not care to go out into the starless night. Bride of the Dark One The gates of hades tottering fell, The prisoners saw the light, And forth emerging, left behind A hideous, starless night. Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions It might have been midnight of the blackest, starless night. The People of the Crater It was alive!—writhing!—cold as the body of a monster snake, and just as vicious and savage in the way that it whipped down and about him in the gloom of the starless night. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Then the starless night sunk down on the ocean, and the sea raved in the gathering darkness. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It We left Poseidonia late in the afternoon, casting back many regretful glances at the three giant sentinels of the plain, looming preternaturally large in the rapidly fading light of a starless evening. The Naples Riviera It was afternoon, twilight yet out of doors—starless and moonless twilight; for though keenly freezing with a dry, black frost, heaven wore a mask of clouds congealed and fast locked. Shirley If he were not God, then we are in a world where the very day is no better or brighter than a starless midnight. Christ, Christianity and the Bible In the clime of sunshine and endless summer, we are in the land of starless political darkness. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Oh River, gentle River! gliding on In silence underneath the starless sky! Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition I backed away from the yawning cavern, blacker than the starless night, into the open road. A Mountain Boyhood Amid such a host of dead and dying men, you might overlook one little boy, who, all that starless Friday night, lay there wounded in the Wilderness. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine Loud lamentations, hideous cries, mingled with the sound of clasped hands, beneath a starless sky; and the terrible answer, as the cause of this suffering, "These have not the hope of death." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 In the mean time, aided by the gloom of a starless night, in every street of Paris preparations were going on for the enormous perpetration. Henry IV, Makers of History Shall, then, the Night Grow starless in her later hours? Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition The night was dark, starless, and very wet, and he and the chauffeur were all streaming with rain and splashed with liquid mud that spattered up from the car wheels. Olive in Italy It was quite dark, the sky was starless, but all about him gleamed the lights in the windows of the neighboring buildings. The Film of Fear The night was moonless, starless, and of Egyptian darkness. King Philip Makers of History "All yesterday I saw you not; it was a starless night to me!" Lotus Buds The monsters were gone; the starless sky was black and empty. The Pygmy Planet On starless nights From Bamborough's turret Oswald watched it long, Before his casement kneeling—first alone, Companioned later. Legends of the Saxon Saints The light of the sun was blotted out completely, and it was as dark as a starless midnight. In the Musgrave Ranges The night was dark and starless, and passed by us as nights are passed in times of difficulty and perplexity; no one out of fear daring to sit down, or to close his eyes. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens For instance, there is a cleft running for a good distance along its length, and there is also a starless gap in its southern portion. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language He wings a slow and watchful flight, His neck is bare, his eyes are bright, His plumage fits the starless night. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse The conclusion can hardly be avoided that, in looking at it, we see through and beyond the Milky Way, far out into space, through a starless region, disconnecting it altogether from our system. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' “Where is the carpenter?” was Leslie’s first cry as he emerged from the companion and groped blindly about him in the blackness of the starless night. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure In a climate of tropical luxuriance and endless summer, we are in a land of starless political darkness. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Come cheer my lonely mountain home, Where gleams the lake, where rills dance bright; Where flowers bloom fair—come dearest come And light my dark and starless night. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad "Mother, it is not like you to repine in this way; you who have suffered and endured so much must not despond when, after a long, starless night, the day begins to dawn." Macaria Shaken with wonder, she trembled as she sat in her chair, staring out into the starless night. Master of the Vineyard The starless sky shone feebly, spotted with dark, torn clouds. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific And yet, in this biting cold, in this dark, starless night, a cavalier ventured alone into the open country, and along a cross-road which led to Clisson. The Regent's Daughter Only beyond the still grey shoji For the breadth of innumerable countries, Is the sea with ships asleep In the blue-black starless night. Japanese Prints "The impervious horrors of a leeward shore" they were doomed to experience during a moonless and starless night. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 It was one night, a starless, cloudy night, with a storm brewing, and we heard behind us a faint sound that struck us dumb with horror. The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys Ten Hundred men stood faintly outlined in the purple pall of a starless night. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry The ancient Spirit of Chaos swings her pitchy cressets, and sinks down the starless deep on her tall catafalque of Death. The Masque of the Elements And it was the starless hour before dawn when Vanheimert tripped over Howie's legs and took a contented header into the corner from which he had made his stealthy escape. Stingaree A starless night hung over it like a pall. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales It seems a very superficial matter beside the silent and starless mystery that enfolds them all. Humanity in the City It was then late in the evening, and the night was dark and starless. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 But, as she sat looking in the fire, she suddenly remembered how God, who held the great, moaning sea and the starless night in the hollow of His hand, held her, too, and her boy. Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success Presently, the light in the window went out, and as the hours wore on, a fine drizzling rain began to fall, as soft as tears, from the starless sky over the mulberry tree. Virginia Thick heavy clouds obscured the starless sky, not a breath of wind was stirring, the air felt oppressively close and sultry even at the hour of midnight. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History But the depths of his soul were starless and chill, and in the midst of all this mirth one heart was tuned to melancholy. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage The sky was starless, the morning dew chilled our blood, and we felt that uncomfortable feeling which, in the tropics, affects the traveller just at the period when night gives place to day. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The heart still moans out its sorrow under the darkness of agnosticism, as the ocean sighing under a starless midnight. John the Baptist Fearless and self-reliant, she could go Across the prairie on a starless night; She speared the fish while in his wildest flight, And almost like a warrior drew the bow. Indian Legends of Minnesota She peered out into the darkness but could see nothing, for the night was absolutely starless. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Is it a cloudless eve or starless night? Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life Another sun has shone upon San Francisco Bay, and again gone down in red gleam over the far-spreading Pacific, leaving the sky of a leaden colour, moonless and starless. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The moon was sinking, or had sunk; the sky darkened steadily, though not beyond that natural to a starless night. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life When far down the gallery I instinctively looked back, but the daylight at the end of the long black tube looked like a white globe,—like the moon in a dark, starless sky. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille The desert sky was cloudy and starless, and powerful searchlights probed the thick cumulus. The Delegate from Venus It was one of those silent, windless, starless nights, when under ordinary circumstances a solemn hush prevails. Tommy The sky being now starless and pitch-black, with this additional obstruction to light, Harry Blew stands in obscurity impenetrable to the eye. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Five minutes later they shoved off from the Shawnee, whose lofty spars and drooping canvas towered darkly up in the starless night. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 The night was dark, but not quite starless, and presently Frewen, who was talking to Foster, remarked that some heavy rain would fall in a short time. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904 The moon had waned and the night was starless when the chimes of San Nicolò told three of the morning in low melodious tones like a voice from dreamland, breaking no slumber. The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus After that she believed in his theory of starless sky-spots; starless, but not plain. The Rich Little Poor Boy Six months ago, When here I stood that memorable night, My gloom was starless; now one fiery star Pierces it. Mr. Faust The sky was misty and starless, and after the moon went down the night was black as pitch. Kerfol 1916 Hark! how the wind comes gathering in its course, And sweeping onward, with resistless force, Howls through the silent space of starless skies, And on the breast of the swol’n ocean dies. Poems There was a night sky above them, almost starless, and with a great, glaring moon shining down, to show a rough, mossy terrain that seemed covered endlessly with row after row of rusting, crumbling spaceships. Victory A sneering power or a grace divine Mercilessly nailed down thy hands and will, O cowardly, decrepit, idle man, Infirm and hapless, starless night enclosed In a weak child! Life Immovable First Part Then, at last, softly, languidly, for indeed she was somewhat spent by the manifold emotions of the day, she rose and followed Richard into the starless, low-lying night. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The night is starless, with a darkness so enveloping that it seems to possess palpability. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 A storm must be brewing, thought he, as he glanced up into the starless heavens. Ted and the Telephone She leaned out of a gable window, courting the moist chill of the starless night. The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 These posts show out white against a starless night, and dark against the snow which sometimes covers the heath with a silvery sheet. The Nebuly Coat I go out into the moonless, starless night, with my eyes still full of the light indoors; and our hands meet blindly before exchanging a pressure. The Choice of Life Then night came down upon us, black, starless, forbidding, although in the absence of any fall of the barometer nothing more than a downpour of rain was expected. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier I am sure it would be the Lament: it is touched with the sorrow of the starless night on a rain-drummed, wailing sea. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn At night the moon hung in the starless sky like a globe of blood, and day by day the dimness of the air increased. Despair's Last Journey The waves ran high, the wind whistled, while dark clouds rolled over the starless sky. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendour. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida There was no moon that night, and the copse in which our pavilion stands was like a blot against the starless heavens. The Millionaire Baby The intensity of his desires, the sincerity of his prayers, and the sublimity of his faith during the long and starless night of his bondage made the Negro a poet, after a fashion. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens But they had not taken half-a-dozen paces toward the block, seen dimly against the starless sky, when there was a sharp chink, and a familiar voice cried: “Who goes there?” The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First Scarce ten minutes after its commencement the obscurity has reached completeness—that of a total solar eclipse or as in a starless night. The Lone Ranche Up against the unbroken blackness of the starless sky their huge forms towered. The Girl in the Golden Atom So, after death, if in that starless deep, I lose your eyes, I'll haunt familiar places. The New Morning Poems The dry seeds dropping from their pods, The hawthorn apples bright as dawn, And the pale mullen's starless rods, Were just as now a year agone. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 It flamed out into green darkness, vanished, and Bart fell through what seemed to be a bottomless chasm of starless night. The Colors of Space He returned to the Quai Massena, to the shore of the sea; but he walked nervously now, in a world that, as far as he was concerned, was starless and colorless. The Triflers To him, all must end in the "tongueless silence of the dreamless dust," and all that lies beyond the grave is a voiceless shore and a starless sky. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The ship suddenly seemed to writhe, space was black and starless about them, then sparkling weirdly distorted stars, all before them. Invaders from the Infinite Night, black and starless, was upon us before we had penetrated half a mile into the woods. With Those Who Wait The sky was starless, too, but he saw the dull gleam of the canal, and made for it. The Blue Pavilions And there were the Magellanic clouds, white-looking patches made up of countless stars individually unseen to the naked eye, and nebulae—mists of radiating light—all shining brilliantly and revolving around the starless South Pole. Around the World in Ten Days Aunt Sibylla was soon followed by the other lantern-bearers, who dispersed homeward, along the four roads diverging from the school-house, and, the night being starless, the children of the darkness followed meekly in their wake. Cape Cod Folks Beyond on the left there sloped away a high black wall of impenetrable darkness where the yew hedge stood; over that was the starless sky. By What Authority? The loveliest breast is like A starless morning, When clouds frown dark and cold, And storms are forming. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The priest and the physician walked to the little village together, through the cold darkness of the starless winter night. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel A mountain of lights towered up on the left where the Plaza invaded the starless sky. The Way of Ambition May none who read this be found starless or empty-handed in that day! Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women It was night, starless and black, but a couple of lanterns shed a few broken rays on the massed seamen with their wondering, upturned faces, and the tall figure of the silent captain. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes The night which followed was starless, and soon we were splashing through a country which, to my eyes, was trackless. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 It was starless and still, the song of the river fusing in a continuous flow of low sound with the secret, self-communings of the tree. The Emigrant Trail Souls, as fast as they leave the body, are gathered in some intermediate state, a starless grave world, a ghostly limbo. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life It could see quite well, even in the close darkness of the starless night; its eyes were of a nature capable of perceiving infrared radiations as light. Police Operation How mournful it was to lie out there, the wintry night, beneath an all but starless heaven, with the wind vexing it when it wanted to sleep! Alec Forbes of Howglen The night was calm and starless, a mass of heavy clouds covered the sky, broken at times by gusts of moaning wind from the west, and broad bursts of moonlight. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 The plain was a silver floor for their feet, in the starless sky the great orb soared. The Emigrant Trail And what must have been our condition to-day had not those pillars of light been placed in our starless sky? Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Out of the starless night of the Uncreated, that was before the stars, a soul begins to grope back to light. Gilbert Keith Chesterton How could he recognise a fugitive shade vaguely beheld in a dark wood, on a sultry and starless night? Historical Mysteries What light is this on a sunless shore, What gleam on a starless sea? Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI The night was starless, the sea black as ink. The Swindler and Other Stories Now the last glimmer of twilight has disappeared; night has closed in—a dark and starless night. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism It was a cold, keen night; the full moon rode high in a starless sky, and there must have been ten or twelve degrees of frost. Leaves from a Field Note-Book When over my life's way there falls the blight Of sunless days, and nights of starless skies; Enough for me, the calm and steadfast light That softly shines within your loving eyes. Fifty years & Other Poems How still with all her towers and domes The city sleeps on yonder shore,— How many thousand happy homes Yon starless sky is bending o'er. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention Thro' the majestic forest's leafy pride The murmurs of the recent tempest sigh'd, The shades of eve were closed, and pattering showers Shed added gloom o'er midnight's starless hours. Gustavus Vasa and other poems Mr. Palma wrote that at last a glorious day of hope dawned on my weary, starless night. Infelice The night was dark and starless; the breeze, though slight and wavering over the sands, was penetrating and cold. Bella Donna A Novel The skipper glanced up at the starless sky. The Harbor Master But according to the second opinion, they are above the heaven that is wholly transparent and starless. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition It was a moonless night, a starless night, one of those foggy nights when the air seems thick with humidity. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Frederick saw the dead hero tossing about in the great black waters under a starless heaven. Atlantis Darkness is falling without and the snowflakes fall thicker and thicker--it yet wants three hours to curfew--but the woods are quite buried in the sombre gloom of a starless night. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars The blackness of the moonless, starless night seems to oppress him. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth At last, one starless, cloudy night, having heard of the murder verdict, he stole away. Greenwich Village Chris, sitting alone in the house, her face buried in her hands, felt, too, something of this exultation; but she nerved herself to look into the future, and saw it grim and starless. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy On a starless, pitch-black night, he was sitting, as usual, in his lonely house at his desk beside his lamp, when it seemed to him that someone was bending over his shoulder. Atlantis It was a dark, starless night; very misty on the road. Adventures of a Despatch Rider The weather promise was for a starless night, but the electric arc-lights were already scintillating at their mastheads in the headquarters railroad yard across the Pannikin. Empire Builders No, there is no comfort, none; All the dewy tender breath Idly falls when life is done On the starless brow of death. The Nuts of Knowledge Lyrical Poems Old and New Overhead were the cooling depths of sky, as yet starless, but the river was breathing on the winds and the sibilant murmur of its waters began to talk above the sounds of the city. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The heaven was starless, the forest was deep, And the vistas of darkness stretched silent in sleep. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses Through the starless windows of that glorious dome they could see into the fathomless depths of Eternity. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Into the darkness of this moonless, starless, sky-beclouded night, you shall soon be driven. Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims A starless stillness damped the air, While his shrill voice kept piping there, 'The sailor-man is going to die'— The huge drops splattered from the sky. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country An early autumn had stripped bare the leaves from the scanty trees; the sky was gray and starless. The Lighted Way The night was pitch dark—moonless, starless—with a sighing wind and a dully moaning sea. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week The story is as follows: It was a dark and starless night. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War It was close and clear; starless, too; and no moon hung upon it. The Poor Little Rich Girl She was silent, and the voice of Athene, fair and pure as a silver moonbeam, broke the stillness of the starless night. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Into the silent, starless Night before us, Naked we glide: No hand has mapped the constellations o'er us, No comrade at our side, No chart, no guide. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics The rain beat ceaselessly against the curtained windows; the wild spring wind shrieked through the city streets, icily cold; a bad, black night—starless, moonless. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week And she got no answer to the question—the black water rushed past, chill and pitiless: the rain-swept sky was starless, the streaming decks deserted. Captivity So we stood, then, beneath the starless sky, listening to the rich choragium of the "World's End." Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance The night was dark and starless, and the wind blew raw and bleak as the baronet dashed down the avenue and out into the high-road. The Baronet's Bride It was a starless night, muffled overhead as the day had been, but without rain or mist. Lazarre I will not die alone, Lest their shrill happy laughter come to me Walking the cold and starless road of Death 255 Uncomforted, leaving my ancient love With the Greek woman. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson His Majesty," it is recorded, "coming out of the ch�teau at one o'clock in the morning, beneath a starless sky, suddenly beheld about him a miraculous rain of lights. The Story of Versailles A few superbly imaginative phrases bring the Italian summer night about us, sultry, storm-shot, starless, still,— "Life was dead, and so was light." Robert Browning They walked away silently from the kitchen door into the deep murk of a starless night. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod So, when haply rainy Caurus Rolls the storm-clouds through the skies, Hidden is the sun; all heaven Is obscured in starless night. The Consolation of Philosophy At last the boat crept out into the rainy, starless night. Truxton King A Story of Graustark The night outside was starless, the lamps flickered irregularly, the guides lay heavily asleep in their blankets on beds of pine boughs in the corner. Katrine And in a moment, notwithstanding the heavy darkness of the starless night, Arthur saw her. The Magician Then his soul went out blaspheming God into a starless eternity. New Tabernacle Sermons I can only compare the coming of these to the growth of the stars in a starless space upon the eye of an intense watcher in a summer twilight. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Having visited this place before, Virgil boldly leads Dante through this portal into an ante-hell region, where sighs, lamentations, and groans pulse through the starless air. The Book of the Epic The night in starless gloom descends, Nor can the pale moonshine Break through the clouds whose veil extends In boundless form, and darkly blends With the horizon's line. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems That starless midnight, there stole from out the darkness, the Iris flag of Hautia. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Gaze steady where yon starless deep the gaze revolts, And say, Seest thou a Titan forging thunderbolts, Or three fair butterflies at lovesome play? The Unknown Eros I and the children whom God hath given me’ will wear a crown brighter than the starless ones of those who saved themselves, and have brought none with them. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) The night fell like a black veil, starless and still. Greatheart If we regarded only the pampered classes, then we might well think that true human fellowship had perished, and a starless darkness—worse almost than Atheism—would fall on the soul. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Chain them to the wheel of your ship, sail on thru the starless night alone. Supreme Personality After the starless darkness and the icy night air, and the fierce silent two hours' race, his senses reeled on sudden entrance into warmth, and light, and the cheery hum of voices. The Were-Wolf Here the evening and the morning sit together hand in hand, and, even as you watch, lead in the day, the new day born beneath the starless sky. The New North It says then: "So likewise that is Heaven Wherein a star is hung, But Heaven may be starless." The Banquet (Il Convito) It was a dark, starless night; an ideal night to a plebe who wanted to run the guard and put in some time outside of the camp limits. Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps Romanes, during his college days, came under the influence of those who worshipped the reason and this worship led him out into a starless night. In His Image The cave was as black as a starless midnight. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California It was a still and starless night, and the sleeping Indians saw them not. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony Flossy went to the window and stood looking out into the starless night. Four Girls at Chautauqua From out the starless night of fraud and wrong Advance! Poems The night overhead-was starless and moonless, but every minute the black heaven was split by spurts of lightning, which showed the laboring, dishevelled ship set among great mountains of breaking seas. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle The night was still intensely black, the sky overcast and starless, the only glimmer of light the reflecting of foam tipped surges. The Case and the Girl Thurstane tried to retrace his steps, but starless night had already fallen thick around him, and before long he had to come to a halt. Overland I can but grope dimly with outstretched hands; sometimes in the outer blackness of a moonless, starless night; sometimes, with strained eyes catching a glimpse of a glimmer in the east. Nancy And the tresses of a moonless and a starless night are fair To the blackness of her raven hair. Poems She looked up, and a cold, starless, dim blank was all over her; and all around, standing thick, were cold, dark, silent trees. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio And, though they shut their lids to kiss, In starless darkness peace to win, Even on that secret world from this Her twilight enters in. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. Then are you strange to me and sweet as light Or dew; as strange and dark as starless night. Poems New and Old Broader and wider and deeper grew the starless space, the vacant Beyond, into which I was being drawn. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The suns and the worlds mark at this very moment, in the immortal light, the same point of time that is indicated below on earth, some starless night, by the humblest village clock. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Impression.—The long mild twilight which like a silver clasp unites to-day with yesterday; when morning and evening sit together hand in hand beneath the starless sky of midnight. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I The wavering sable line of its tree-tops spread a pall across the starless horizon. Round Anvil Rock A Romance The night was dark, starless, and rainy, while the drops pattered upon the windows, and the wind howled at intervals along the house-tops. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 The night had come, starless and moonless, favorable to the designs of Tandakora, but they felt intense satisfaction, nevertheless. The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods I came to the great shed of glass and girders which is the station, the night being perfectly soundless, moonless, starless, and the hour about eleven. The Purple Cloud A long time afterward, when Kenelm was standing beside his window looking out into the starless dark, Felicia's special knock sounded hollowly at his door. The Happy Venture "Hence, when such maddened tempests rave, I cannot rest at home, For then the billows deck his grave With flowers of snow-white foam; And here I pray till break of day Beneath night's starless dome." Poems Then he went away, and I was left with my own thoughts—starless as the midnight darkness around me. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Drifting from starless abysses Into the ether sublime, Where is no upward nor downward, Nor region nor record of Time! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The wintry clouds were hanging From the starless sky so low, While 'neath them earth lay folded In a winding shroud of snow. Poems: Patriotic, Religious Strange he had deemed it day!—why, it was black, starless ... Chita: a Memory of Last Island Life seemed to stretch before her like a dark starless night. The Violet Fairy Book Just over the ragged mountain range the big moon hung in an almost starless sky, and in shadowy outline every peak lay upon the plain like a giant pattern. Indian Why Stories Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire It shone out with dazzling brightness against the murky, starless sky. The Woman in White How long shall the Celt chant the sad song of hope, That a sunrise may break on the long starless night of our past? Poems: Patriotic, Religious Why should I fear the sleep of Death, the unknown terrors of that starless night, the waves of the river Styx? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. The Time Machine The sky was misty and starless, and after the moon went down the night was pitch black. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 For lifted clear and still and strange From the dark woven flow of change Under a vast and starless sky I saw the immortal moment lie. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke The sunniest days are shortest; darkness tells The starless story of the night that dwells In lone and last farewells. Poems: Patriotic, Religious The canal beneath the window looked like a black gulf; the opposite houses were barely visible as a row of shadows, dimly relieved against the starless and moonless sky. The Haunted Hotel It was a road of dangerous curves and corners which needed careful negotiation even in broad daylight, and this was a black, moonless and starless night. Scarhaven Keep And, though they shut their lids to kiss, In starless darkness peace to win, Even on that secret world from this Her twilight enters in. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 Till suddenly, and otherwhence, I looked upon your innocence; For lifted clear and still and strange From the dark woven flow of change Under a vast and starless sky I saw the immortal moment lie. Georgian Poetry 1911-12 In the sweetest of your pleasures there was bitterest alloy, And a starless night hath followed on the sunset of your joy. Poems: Patriotic, Religious That night passed: all nights—even the starless night before dissolution—must wear away. Villette Soloveitchik stood at the door for some time, looking up to the starless sky and rubbing his thin fingers. Sanine It was a starless, moonless night—a night to prowl successfully about clotheslines. Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings So blazing gaily red Against the luminous deeps Of starless London night, They burn for my delight: While somewhere, snug in bed, A worn old woman sleeps. Georgian Poetry 1911-12 For we can never tell where they may be Who, to make head against the tide and gale, Between them and the starless, soulless sea Have but one bit of plank, with one poor sail. Poems It was a starless sight, temperately cool, with no air stirring. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes The carriage drove away and disappeared in the thick darkness of a starless night. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 She lay outstretched, her glorious face upturned to the starless skies, her tired hands far apart over the sides of the boat. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada But I lingered long on the heaving bridge, though it was cold and starless, and I got quite wet with the dashed-up spray. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches We think of the tents on the lowly ground, Where our patriot soldiers lie; And the sentry's bleak and lonely march, 'Neath the dark and starless sky. War Poetry of the South I will not die alone, Lest their shrill happy laughter come to me Walking the cold and starless road of Death Uncomforted, leaving my ancient love With the Greek woman. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson "Do these evolutionists stop to think of the crime they commit when they take faith out of the hearts of men and women and lead them out into a starless night?" The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments The blazing branches illuminated the starless summer night, and cast a superb glow over the beautiful half-clothed figure crouching not far from them. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada The thought is Cicero's, but how it is intensified by the "starless nights"! Among My Books First Series It was raining; on the horizon, below the black, starless sky, a vague clarity began to appear. Cæsar or Nothing I guess he would have stood there and held it for Nilsson to sing by, if 4,500 people hadn't with one voice laughed him out into the starless night. Remarks And I would rather that every God would destroy himself; I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, that that just one soul should suffer eternal agony. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. It greatly aided sailors by enabling them to find their bearings in murky weather and on starless nights. Early European History He insists that in venturing away from conventional standards poets merit every consideration, being Tall galleons, Out of their very beauty driven to dare The uncompassed sea, founder in starless night. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years About them night finally closed in, black and starless, yet fortunately with a gradual dying away of the storm. Keith of the Border So they set sail, and through the thick mist of a starless night their galley silently breasted the unseen waves. Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Is the sun on high again?—in this black and starless night—the noonday sun? The Bride of Fort Edward And the invincible vague hope of youth, and the irrepressible consciousness of power, were almost ready to flame up afresh, contrary to all reason, and irradiate her starless soul. Hilda Lessways All the figures are shrouded in a blank starless gloom; to read the play is to watch the riot of devils. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 Only silence rising with the ghostly morning's misty light, Silence, silence, settling down upon the moonless, starless night. Poems Then the earth moved into the black shadow of the sun, and all was night—Night, black, starless, and intolerable. The House on the Borderland Kindly dusk of the starless prairie that hid the blushes and confusion of the girl! Annette, the Metis Spy THE beggar in me lifted his lean hands to the starless sky and cried into night's ear with his hungry voice. Fruit-Gathering Johnson is religious through and through, but there are passages in the Rambler and Idler dark as starless, moonless midnight. More Pages from a Journal It was a dark, starless night, but so warm that the easterly sea-breeze fanned us like a zephyr. Without Prejudice A sportsman lost his way in a pitiless storm on a black and starless night. When the Holy Ghost is Come The treble of baby frogs, the diapason of ancient frogs, the lusty alto of frogs in the prime of life, were united in an unbroken, penetrating chant to the starless sky. Viola Gwyn He saw the trio slide over the top, one by one, vanishing in the starless dark. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales He lay where he fell, moaning out his grief with his wide-staring eyes turned straight up into the cold gray of the starless sky. The Honor of the Big Snows Oblivion of battles that command Our wan reluctance, and a starless rest Borne on in tideless twilight, where all quest Ends in the pressure of a quiet hand. The Five Books of Youth Or it was like some cyclopean sea-beast sitting above London and letting down its tentacles bewilderingly on every side, a monstrosity in that starless heaven. The Ball and the Cross It rained three days and nights on end—three windless days and starless nights, during which we had to linger alongshore close to the papyrus. The Ivory Trail When I came to the log house by the Spring Waiontha, lantern in hand and my packet tucked beneath my arm, it was twilight, and the starless skies threatened rain. The Hidden Children THE days passed on, and the night before the wedding hung its cold, starless gloom over the Queen City-hung as the sable pall above the dead. Leah Mordecai Then falls a darkness on that starless shore. The Five Books of Youth There, on that moonless, starless night, when the darkness was blackest, just before the dawn, the brave fireman had gone down in that whistling, groaning, shrieking, moaning, Tartarean whirlpool! The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast Elsewhere, the awful void of night was starless; the dark lustre of space shone without a cloud. Basil Deep silence had fallen with the starless dusk, and they leaned on each other without speaking; but at every step of their climb Ethan said to himself: "It's the last time we'll ever walk together." Ethan Frome Your hair is a torrent of starless night. South Wind A dark and starless night closed in, accompanied by cold winds and drizzling rain. Roughing It in the Bush Better this than the starless night in which you grope, without a promise of the dawn of eternity, where all mystery shall be explained. Beulah Your affection is very dear to us; continue in it; it is the sun of our starless sky. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 If they go on thus, they must, after countless years, scatter in all directions, so that the inhabitants of each shall see only a black, starless sky. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science Nepenthe lay veiled in Cimmerian gloom, darker than starless midnight—a darkness that could be felt; a blanket, as it were, hot and breathless, weighing upon the landscape. South Wind We thought of the vast wilderness lying all about us under the pall of a moonless and starless night. The Lure of the Labrador Wild Oh, what is the shadow of death, in comparison with the starless night which has fallen upon me, even in the morning of my life! Beulah It changed the starless sky about it to an extraordinary deep blue, the profoundest color in the world, such as I have never seen before or since. In the Days of the Comet Has it bounds outside of which nothing exists but the black and starless depths of infinity itself? Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science The outer door was then opened, and the whole party issued forth into the field which surrounded the house, finding themselves suddenly in the utter darkness of a moonless, starless, somewhat foggy night. The King's Highway The approaching winter stretched before her like a starless night; she was afraid to let her mind dwell on it. Maurice Guest And, meanwhile, the starless sky and the waiting chain were equally silent and equally freighted with mystery. On the Firing Line Then there was the sky, the wonderful, luminous, starless, moonless sky, and the empty blue deeps of the edge of it, between the meteor and the sea. In the Days of the Comet Was there a period when they saw at night only a black and starless heaven? Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science By the time I had induced him to take the water and rejoin me, the short twilight was gone, and night had set in, dark, starless, hot, and full of electricity. Such Is Life She was thinking of the starless night out yonder, of the bleak, arid country, of the great, dim, measureless plains; of one who was passing through them all, and one who might never return. Under Two Flags Evening was giving place to darkness, and soon the misty hills and the bay were enveloped in starless gloom. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. A baseless hope, yet vivid, keen, and bright, As the wild lightning in the starless night. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 They all have brilliant black hair—hair "black as starless night"—if I may quote from the "Family Herald". The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 6: Artemus Ward's Panorama The sky was starless and black, and a strong wind was blowing from the lake. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Under the friendly cover of a starless night the men, in Indian file, like a party of Iroquois braves upon the war trail, stole up the winding and ill-defined path which led to the summit. The Great Boer War It was now night—black and starless, and the dense woods through which they were traveling made the darkness thick and impenetrable. The Red Acorn I left him, orphaned, in the starless night; Alas, for him no cheerful morning's dawn! The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oh, he has kissed her on the brow, He took her by the hand: Into the sunless land they went, Into the starless land. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 First there was Darkness—starless and sunless Void without form—darker than night Then did the Master—Lord of Creation Wave His right hand, saying, "Let there be light!" The Lani People In the light of the flames the soft sky, which was starless and flooded with stillness by the large full moon, had turned from blue to green. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches All the night long they watched in the cold and the wind, the children shivering beneath their mothers' skirts, the men sullenly watching the light of the flames in the dark, starless sky. Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) For shadows gather round, and should we part, A dreary starless night May fill my heart,— Then pause and linger yet ere thou depart. Legends and Lyrics Part 1 Above us bends a black and starless vault, Which ever echoes back the fearful voices That rise from the abodes of wo beneath. Mazelli, and Other Poems Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding though the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell An hour after that we were at sea, with a starless night overhead, and a fresh breeze behind us. Armadale He saw her bending over his tomb, in beautiful humble curves, under a starless sky, watering the violets with her tears. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Last night, when weary silence fell on all, And starless skies arose so dim and vast, I heard the Spirit of the Present call Upon the sleeping Spirit of the Past. Legends and Lyrics Part 1 She stood beside the wide wild sea, The winds howled hoarse and high, And dark clouds, drifting drearily, Swept o'er the starless sky. Mazelli, and Other Poems A starless nihilism was then the philosophy of the schools; and it bred in him a war between the members and the spirit, but one in which the members were right. Manalive Thus on that starless night the Shallows were peopled by uneasy souls. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows The starless firmament pressed down upon the earth like a leaden cover. Roads of Destiny I stood in the burial-ground of the universe; its compass the unenclosed heath, its wall the gray horizon, low and starless! Lilith, a romance Misty and starless, the dark sky spread its majestic obscurity over the earth. The Evil Genius The moon is queen in the cloudless and starless sky. The Frozen Deep A sound, sorrowful and startling like the sigh of some immense creature, travelling across the starless space, passed above the vertical and lofty spars of the motionless brig. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows According to Parsons:— "Mid sighs, laments, and hollow howls of woe, Which, loud resounding through the starless air, Forced tears of pity from mine eyes at first." The Unseen World and Other Essays Great orbs, dark as if cut from the sphere of a starless night, and luminous by excess of darkness, seemed to shine amid the glimmering whiteness of her face. Lilith, a romance Ere eve it was that other bird, Which brings the starless dark. Poems — Volume 2 Ned was dressed in a dark business suit, so he was not likely to be observed from a distance, for it was a starless night. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails It is morning, I awake from a bed of silence, Shining I rise from the starless waters of sleep. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets He drifted into that state of mind when one thinks without ideas, when one's mind is like a starless sky, serene and empty. The Research Magnificent She didn’t return the wish audibly, though her lips did move a little, while her gaze black like a starless night never for a moment wavered before him. Within the Tides Many other warriors would leap into the ring, and with faces upturned toward the starless sky, they would all stamp, and whoop, and brandish their weapons like so many frantic devils. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life The eastward cliff was at first merely a starless selvedge to the starry dome. The First Men in the Moon |
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