"Lightless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cold; the prisoner lean In lightless den, the robed queen; Even the youth who waits, Hiding the knife, to ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... when he passed the Preble ranch house, silent and lightless, but with the horses munching in the corral. He stopped to pick up a measure of oats for Peter, then he began the last lap of his journey. There was a bright fire glowing at the Sun Plant. As he neared it, he gave a shout. There was an answering shout and Ernest and Gustav ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... return the Amishman's salute. "I return your gifts, Lightless One," he announced. "They are tainted with your blasphemy." He nodded, and his servants dismounted to stack at the side of the road Aaron's guest-gifts of months before. The bale of tobacco was set down, the bolt of scarlet silk, the chains of candy, the silver-filigreed ...
— Blind Man's Lantern • Allen Kim Lang
... ideas concerning the black star, based upon the perturbation of the planets; then he had asked them to investigate the possibilities, and see if they could find any blotting out of stars by a lightless mass. ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
... Government. She was young and most unevenly informed, but she was amazingly sharp and quick and good. Never before in my life had I known a girl of her age, or a woman of her quality. I had never dreamt there was such talk in the world. Kinghamstead became a lightless place when she went to Oxford. Heaven knows how much that may not have precipitated my abandonment ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells |
