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  • adjective Without day.

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day +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The cold sharpened; the sky, toward evening, glittered like an emerald; the earth was black, it resembled a ball of iron spinning in the diffused green radiance of a dayless and glacial void.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense.

    The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

  • Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense.

    The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903

  • Here, night after night, they would sit in the ingle and while away the weariness of the dayless dark with histories of the times when men carried their lives in their hands, and thought them well lost if there might be a song in the ears of folk to come.

    Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • But that deedless tide of the grave-mound, and the dayless nightless day,

    The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

  • So thanking God for the providential and unexpected supply of building material and fuel, they lost no time in making sheds, in hauling timber, and in dragging supplies from the ship before the dayless winter should descend upon them.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • So thanking God for the providential and unexpected supply of building material and fuel, they lost no time in making sheds, in hauling timber, and in dragging supplies from the ship before the dayless winter should descend upon them.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • So thanking God for the providential and unexpected supply of building material and fuel, they lost no time in making sheds, in hauling timber, and in dragging supplies from the ship before the dayless winter should descend upon them.

    History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • So thanking God for the providential and unexpected supply of building material and fuel, they lost no time in making sheds, in hauling timber, and in dragging supplies from the ship before the dayless winter should descend upon them.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1598-99 John Lothrop Motley 1845

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