lightless

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But that scout pilot, in sacrificing life, had thrown dust in their eyes for just those few moments Kendall had needed to lose a lightless ship in lightless space--lightless--for the Mirans at any rate.

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  1. Without light; giving no light; dark. Upon the chaungynge of the moone, Whan lightlees is the world. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 550. The lightless fire, Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire. Shak., Lucrece, I. 4. These large lightless waves of the sun … are frequently called obscure or invisible heat. Tyndall, Forms of Water, p. 13.

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  • The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room. —  Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York
  • The bottom three floors were a lightless, littered mess except for the echoing atrium, which was a skylighted, littered mess. —  Dan Simmons - Hardcase
  • Perhaps they had been fired away in a narrow-focus stream, like a lightless laser beam, as he was disassembled, broken-down, deconstructed, unbuilt, as his molecules were being transported here -- to this place of the lake pool and exquisite diamond-bright light and gently rippling water that seemed heavier than he remembered water to be, seemed able to hold him higher in its totality than he remembered water was able. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • Erin was a swimmer in the lightless, tasty, echoic seas of Europa. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
  • It was black inside the cavern, lightless, impenetrable black, and once inside, I realized it was deeper than I had guessed. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
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  1. from Middle English lightless, from Anglo-Saxon leóhtleās, without light, from leóht, light, + -leás, = English -less: see light, n., and -less.
 

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