And void of Justice; what a sunless place is any realm!
But, when another wild, sunless day had come in, the drift-piled home had ceased to shiver and creak or admit any sounds from without.
Her mother, seeing through the windows how sunless and blustery it was outside, entreated her to wait until the next day, when the biggest brother would be home.
At length in 1850, at the age of eighty, he too closed his eyes, and went "From sunshine to the sunless land.
I hear a murmur as of waves That grope their way through sunless caves, Like bodies struggling in their graves, Carolina!
There is a general release to every one, good, bad, and indifferent, and once more they may return to the upper world and be relieved from the pain and gloom of that sunless realm.
The recollection, moreover, of the scenes and sights and strange mysterious experiences that he passes through in that gloomy, sunless land are all blotted out from his memory.
With the same regimen, the same cleanliness, the same care, the inmates of the sunless cells were visited with sickness and death in double measure.
After these two scorching weeks there came a dull, grey, sunless day, with heavy rain stored in the driving black clouds, like swollen water-skins.
He noted all these little details, minute and motley trifles, bright specks in the expanse of sky and ocean, and very visible in the subdued light of a sunless day.
Mayest thou have peace in the world below and such joy as may be in those sunless places!
They may enter either into perpetual bondage on the farm, or spend "a sunless life in the unwholesome mine".
It was a sunlessworld in which land, air, and sea were mixed up together, and over which reigned a deity called Chaos.
No longer had the pale-faced god, with dark locks, and eyes like the sunless pools of a mountain stream, any terrors for Proserpine.
It was a dark passage into an inner cave lit from below,--a cave filled with an eternal and sunless twilight that was very soothing to our eyes as we came in from the glare of sea and sky.
We have said farewell to the cold uplands of Monaro proper, and are entering a mountain land, amid deep ravines and narrow gorges, sunless glens, dense forests, and precipitous ranges.
Thou hast not sought thesunless home Where darkly delves the toiling gnome, The mid-earth's swarthy child.
But why, in any case, remain content with salmon alone when Bouillabaisse can be made, even in dark and sunless England?
The three ghosts on the sunless road, Spake each to one another, "Whence came that red burn on your foot No dust or ash may cover?
Well, I was for the forest, now, to wrest from a sunless land a mouthful o' corn to stop the stomach's mutiny.
The old man looks out of the canvas from beneath a brow as sad as a sunless twilight, with just such a stoical hopelessness as you might fancy him to wear if he stood at your side gazing at his rotting canvases.
I remember edging along the sunless side of the small mouldy houses and pausing very often to look at nothing in particular.
Attic clay Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again Back to this common world so dull and vain, For thou wert weary of the sunless day, The heavy fields of scentless asphodel, The loveless lips with which men kiss in Hell.
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return?
From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild, Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in spouts the swallows build.
Where, chanting through his beard of snows, Majestic, mournful, Saturn goes, And down the sunless realms of space Reverberates the thunder of his bass.
And with that second moondawn of the spring's That fosters the first rose, A sun-child whiter than the sunlit snows Was born out of the world of sunless things That round the round earth flows and ebbs and flows.
