starless

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  1. Having no stars visible, or no starlight: as, a starless night.

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  • Under them, the waters were no longer green but a deep black like a starless night sky. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • The WalkingStones were tall; as tall as sharpfangs, almost, and black as a starless night. —  Maverick, Isaac Asimov's Robots And Aliens -- Book 5
  • Slowly, it diminished as the starless, moonless dark came on, devouring every last shred of light. —  FSF,October2005
  • After that she believed in his theory of starless sky-spots; starless, but not plain. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
  • Full of religion, or at least of religiosity, as our Friend has since exhibited himself, he hides not that, in those days, he was wholly irreligious: 'Doubt had darkened into Unbelief,' says he; 'shade after shade goes grimly over your soul, till you have the fixed, starless, Tartarean black.' —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
 

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