As the name indicates, the Rayless Thelesperma has heads of fertile flowers only, ray-flowers being lacking.
Here they alighted, tied their horses to some young trees, and then cautiously crept through the forest about half a mile, when, still in the gloom of the rayless morning, they dimly discerned the wigwams of the savages.
The Pilgrims explored quite minutely this magnificent harbor, then solitary and fringed withrayless forests, now alive with commerce, and decorated with mansions of refinement and opulence.
Slowly the ghost, without change of mien, passes backward through the open door, disappearing inrayless darkness.
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.
But the second would weep bitter tears to think what a rayless and barren life that must be which could extract enjoyment from the miserable flimsy wand that has such magic attraction for sauntering youths and simpering maidens.
They were both rayless and strangely--lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
As the ends of the bars radiated into the annealing mist I saw the tentacles creep closer and ever closer to the rayless flame through which the mist flew.
And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences.
Once more a puff of wind, as of a whiff from a monstrous gullet, left him in rayless darkness.
Barely strong enough to drag his limbs, the wretch waddled into the rayless hole, whining and groaning.
The term lophocercal is proposed by Ryder for the form of caudal fin which consists of a rayless fold of skin continuous with the skin of the tail, the inner surfaces of this fold being more or less nearly in contact.
In Acanthoessus this fin consists of a stout, stiff spine, with a rayless membrane attached behind it.
Emerging from a rayless atom, too diminutive for the sight, we gradually develop and advance to the maturity of those conscious powers, the exercise of which furnishes indubitable evidence of our immortality.
He considers man in every phase of his existence, from therayless atom to the grand upbuilding of the noblest work of God.
Long hast thou been buried, O Israel, in the bowels of earth; long hast thou slumbered beneath the overwhelming waves; long hast thou slept in the rayless house of darkness.
And she stepped a few paces down the alley, and threw open a door into a rayless place possibly five by seven feet in size.
Often there is to be seen at the far end of these crevices a point of sunlight; like the gleaming point of light seen ahead, in going through a rayless tunnel.
A peculiar plant with leafy stems, two to four feet high, bearing a dense cluster of elongate rayless heads of purple flowers.
A tall plant with large oblong entire leaves and a long raceme of yellowish, rayless heads.
At first they were shut up in a dungeon that was perfectly dark, for their cruel jailer knew the overpowering effect of suchrayless gloom.
The savage was peering into the pit, but it occurred to me that he was unable to distinguish us in that rayless obscurity.
Wildeve had at present the rayless outline of the sun through smoked glass, and she could say such things as that with the greatest facility.
When the reddleman's figure could no longer be seen, Wildeve himself descended and plunged into the rayless hollow of the vale.
The way was strange, the flight was long; at last the angels came Where swung the lost and nether world, red-wrapped in rayless flame.
The castle now arose before them, endowed by the rayless shade with a more massive majesty than either sunlight or moonlight could impart; and Havill sighed again as he thought of what he was losing by Somerset's rivalry.
BR> In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.
Pluchea camphorata) with raylesspurplish heads, growing in salt marshes.
